秘岛

　　科尔（尤达·刘易斯 Judah Lewis 饰）是一个个性十分懦弱的男孩，在学校里备受欺凌，回到家中又得不到父母的重视，只有平日里常常来照看他的保姆比（萨玛拉·维文 Samara Weaving 饰）是他最信任和亲近的人，两人之间有着深厚而又惺惺相惜的友谊。
　　科尔十分好奇比在自己睡着了之后会干些什么，于是在某夜偷偷溜下了床，躲在暗中窥视。让科尔感到震惊的是，比带了一群男男女女来到他家的客厅，玩起了真心话大冒险的游戏。随着时间的推移，这场轻佻火辣的游戏开始慢慢变味，突如其来的血腥屠杀让科尔明白，这并不是一场游戏，而比，也绝不是表面看上去的那么简单。

　　他们喂给你的恐惧，作为你的晚餐。这是片子宣传语。斯蒂芬.金这个恐怖大王可谓是银幕上的拉登，到处编剧着一个个令人发指的恶梦。 《舐血夜魔》改编自美国畅销惊险小说家，有“恐怖小说王”之称的斯蒂芬.金的原作。斯蒂芬.金以写恐怖小说而名利双收，他所写的30多本小说不但在英语国家畅销，且被翻释成30多种文字而行销于世界各国。按《富比世》杂志估计，斯蒂芬.金光在1996年到1997年之间，其收入就达到8400万美元。一个作家能有这么高的收人，羡煞许多靠“爬格子”维生的人。 有关“梦游鬼”的记载最早出现于1884年首版的《百科全书之寰宇搜秘》中。它的起源可追溯到传说中的吸血鬼。“梦游鬼”是一种半人半猫科的可变形游牧动物，它以人类处女之精气神为食，猫之抓痕可置之于死地。
　　本片拍摄于1992年，由哥伦比亚影片公司出品，导演是米可.格瑞斯。影片情节紧张刺激，特效非常逼真，具有较强的娱乐性。

　　泰国热带雨林中，不时出现一些奇怪事件，某天一对猎人在狩猎中，发现一个小蛇女，并将她捉住，带返研究所意图得到丰厚利润。小蛇女因不断被针药所测试，身体起了极大变化，竟变成巨大蟒蛇，袭击人类，在千钧一发之际，蛇母出现并相劝，蛇女无奈接受现实并默然离去……

　　恐怖电影“来自坟墓下面” 由4个故事组成，当顾客从一家古董店买古董时，他们得到的不单是古董。一个人买了一面镜子，他被鬼魂骚扰，迫使他自杀，这样它就可以重生。一位疲倦的丈夫买了一枚旧的战争奖章，因此遇上一名神秘的前度军人和他女儿，她们帮助他杀死妻子。一个人在火车上遇见个陌生人，他告诉他的肩膀上有鬼魂…他征募一个妇女来驱魔。最后一个人买了一扇很大的古老门，它让他回到查尔斯一世的时代。

　　著名化妆品公司的社长美轮（观月亚里莎 饰）有着不为人知的过去。曾经，她在一家整形医院里担任清洁工的职务，并且对自己并不美丽的外表感到深深的自卑。一天，整容医生义彦（寺岛进 饰）找到了美轮，提出让美轮成为自己的实验品，免费帮美轮进行整容手术。最终，手术大获成功，而已经脱胎换骨变得美艳不可方物的美轮顺理成章的嫁给了义彦。
　　婚后没多久，义彦便露出了自己的真实面目，控制欲极强的他天天虐待和禁锢着美轮，令后者苦不堪言。在这个节骨眼上，美轮遇见了名为武治（山本耕史 饰）的园艺师，脆弱绝望的女人找到了生命中唯一的希望。

　　郊外，发生了一起肢解女尸的案件，死者是一个身怀有孕的未婚少女。此后，类似命案又接连发生，而且手法类似。女警官金密云（廉晶雅 饰）与男警官姜太勋（池珍熙 饰）在调查中发现，罪犯的作案手法跟一个在押死刑犯申贤（曹承佑 饰）如出一辙。但是，问题在于在深牢大狱中的他并不具备作案可能性。于是，他们决定审问此人，希望可以找到破案线索。
　　然而，女警官金密云对于这个囚犯怀着极其复杂的心情，因为她昔日的恋人就是因为在抓捕这个嫌犯时自杀身亡的，对此，她一直耿耿于怀不敢面对现实。年轻的姜警官开始并不了解，但是在相处中慢慢体会到她的伤痛。然而，在对抗死刑犯申贤的过程中，两个人却先后走入了一个静心设计好的圈套之中……

　　这部文艺电影透露着浓浓的美国南方历史风味。富豪吉姆（凯文•斯帕西饰）举办了一个盛大的圣诞派对，然而在这个热闹派对的午夜，却发生了一场命案。所有的矛头都指向了吉姆，吉姆委托当晚到场的记者约翰（约翰•库萨克饰）搜集证据帮助自己，在约翰的求证过程中，却发现了被害者和主人吉姆之间的秘密关系，当搜证继续进行，吉姆自己却曝出了一个内幕，使得案件继续陷入迷雾。在这个南方小镇的午夜，究竟隐藏着怎样的善与恶，爱与恨，怎样的人性与阴谋？

　　曾在西班牙杀过人的水手Michael O'Hara（奥逊·威尔斯 Orson Welles 饰）回到了纽约，一天夜里他在路上救了遭到打劫的美女Elsa（丽塔·海华斯 Rita Hayworth 饰），于是Elsa让她的丈夫，律师Arthur Bannister（埃弗雷特·斯隆 Everett Sloane 饰）找到Michael，让他来船上当水手。Bannister一家刚从上海回到纽约，正要坐船前往旧金山。在海上航行的时候，Michael和Elsa情愫暗生。而Michael也认识了Arthur的朋友George Grisby（Glenn Anders 饰）。George知道Michael曾经杀过人后，想让Michael再杀一个人，并承诺给他五千美元的佣金，而他想让Michael杀的人，就是George自己。原来George想制造自己已经死了的假象，然后从现在的生活和他的妻子身边逃走。两人的计划看起来天衣无缝，George却失手杀死了Arthur的管家，随后George也真的被杀。Michael被认为是两个死者的凶手，法庭上，为Michael辩论的却是他的情敌Arthur，到底谁才是杀死George的真正凶手？

　　二战爆发，富樫胜男（丹波哲郎 饰）接到征兵令，不得不告别新婚刚满六个月的妻子先惠（左幸子 饰）和尚未出世的孩子赶往战场，一去不返。1946年，先惠接到丈夫的死亡通知，却对其死亡原因产生质疑。经过多方询问，她终于得知胜男因逃避兵役而被处死，她和女儿也无法享受阵亡将士家属的待遇。深感蹊跷的先惠几十年来不畏艰辛，坚持要给丈夫讨个说法。在厚生省新任领导的指点下，她找到了胜男当年所在部队的战友，从他们的口中得知了在残酷战争背景下所发生的一切……
　　本片根据直木赏获奖作品，结城昌治的同名小说改编。

　　Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after seven years as a Russian POW. Vienna is experiencing the multiplicity of political, social and artistic freedom, but also the rise of anti-democratic movements, insecurity and unemployment. Peter, a former police inspector, feels like a stranger in the new Austrian Republic. While wanting to leave town, Peter is confronted with the murder of one of his former comrades. He decides to stay and instead bring the killer to justice. His ally is Dr. Theresa Körner, a determined and cool-headed forensic doctor. The two are linked not only by this case, but also by a deeper, shared history. As their investigation progresses, they realise that they are not just up against a systematic killer, who tortures his victims, but also face disapproval and intrigue from within the police force. Though determined to solve the crime, Peter, harbouring his own secrets, increasingly becomes tormented by existential questions: What is truth? What is heroism in the time of war? And all the while he fails to see the mounting danger before him.

　　In this sci-fi chiller, a young woman's peace is shattered when she begins hearing loud screams in her head. They are the agonized wailings of an astronaut deliberately marooned upon the moon by a double-crossing experimenter. Soon the woman becomes possessed by the astronaut.

　　This early 70's giallo by Umberto Lenzi is certainly among the best in his filmography and also in the whole genre. Personally I think Lenzi's best films are the funny cartoon-turned-film Kriminal, the stylish giallo Seven Blood-Stained Orchids, the explosive Napoli violenta and this. In the eighties he did plenty of film trash in form of Eaten Alive, Hitcher in the Dark or Black Demons, all of which are ripping something off and/or very dull and slow moving. Knife of Ice came when the giallo boom was at its hottest and the result is convincing.
　　Technically the film is superb, containing great cinematography in the beginning when we learn about the main character's trauma towards trains. From this point on, Lenzi shows us his ability to benefit the widescreen and, for example, the bicycle ride near the forest is genuinely beautiful! This scene also shows Lenzi's ability to build suspense, very slowly but meaningfully. After all, there aren't so many murders in the whole film, only the suspense circulating around the murderer's identity.
　　One suspect is a devil worshipper which brings new aspects to the mystery. Since the final scene takes place in a church, one can wonder if Lenzi wanted to comment on something, maybe the hypocritical morale of church and superstition. The main character (Carrol Baker) is mute which demands a lot from her face and eyes. The actress works very well, giving us a believable performance circulating around the emotions of fear and mental pain. The other actors are good, too. The finally, however, may not give too positive a sight about female sex since they all are expressed rather negatively in the film, one way or another. Still this is easily among the most noteworthy in the genre, not as bloody as the Argento films, for example, but equally suspenseful and visually also interesting.