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　　珍接受了照顾盲人西诺比娅的看护工作。可是慢慢地，珍意识到，西诺比娅正在慢慢地取走她的血...

　　一对年轻夫妇经常拍摄、上传自己探险水下房屋的视频。这次二人前往一个偏远的湖泊，意外发现了深水中一幢奇怪的废弃房屋，而他们的到来唤醒了深宅中的黑暗存在。

　　一种基因改造的狗在实验室的实验过程中与一个怪物产生了心灵感应....

　　两对夫妇在同一时间意外预订了同一处度假租赁房产的故事。他们浪漫的周末很快就变成了性、谎言和生存的扭曲迷宫。

　　在花店工作的美智（麻生久美子饰）为了拿一份名单去拜访同事，本来还一脸平静的同事却在转瞬间上吊自杀，更为可怕的是其他同事在磁盘里发现了可怕的东西。随后美智的同事自杀、公司的老板失踪，紧接着友人、家人一个接一个地消失了。另一边，大学生亮介（加藤晴彦饰）第一次接触互联网，莫名其妙地被链接到一个“你是否想遇见幽灵”的网站，又是困惑又是害怕的他就向读计算机的女生春江（小雪饰）求助。美智和亮介就发现身边的人正在慢慢的消失或者死去，只留下一摊黑影。网路上的诡异给城市带来了异常变化，喊着“救命”的声音四处出现。
　　最后，美智和亮介偶然相遇时，东京几乎成为了一个无人的死寂之，他们开始逃离……

　　Regine, a psychologically fragile young woman, is hiding away in the city, far from the dark and forbidding countryside of her traumatic childhood. She's struggling to construct the loving family she never had, and to rise above the events of the past: above all, the disastrous home birth of her brother Isaac, which led to her mother's insanity and Isaac's apparent death. But the city is tense and hostile, and contains its own threats. An abusive relationship with the controlling psychiatrist who's treating her mother is already blighting Regine's life when the brutal murder of her grandmother raises a crucial question: is Isaac still alive, and looking for revenge against a family which he feels has rejected him? Driven to heal the wounds of the past and to reunite her family by connecting with the brother she's never met, Regine must return to the site of her previous traumas and confront the true source of her family's guilt. It could make sense of her life - or throw it into ...

　　January is forced to return home after six years traveling abroad. A near-fatal accident has left her temporarily wheelchair bound and depleted of her long-term memory. She is accompanied by her boyfriend 'Callum' whom she met whilst traveling. He was also the driver in the fateful accident. Not only has she forgotten her family, but her childhood as well and is surprised to discover that her home is a stately manor in the middle of the country-side. As January tries to settle in, she finds herself becoming even more estranged from her family, who just want their daughter back. The trouble is, she cannot remember who that daughter was, or why she ran away in the first place. Desperate to discover why she left all those years ago and with Callum's help, she sets out to find the truth. They soon discover the family are not as loving as they seem to be. Was there a dark reason why she left them in the first place?

　　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.

　　An English dowager's new secretary is drugged by her son and told she's his wife.

　　埃尔维拉是一个低成本恐怖电影节目的主持人，她发现自己是新英格兰一位阿姨豪宅的继承人。豪宅里有很多有趣的怪物，她因为想给年轻人带来一些不一样的体验，但却却发生了冲突，。镇上的成年人对她的衣着、语气，对她的一切，尤其是她的性暗示感到反感......

　　黑道分子陈雄（高飞 饰）也是一名拳场高手，其弟与一名泰拳王交手，不辛被对方贱招暗算致残。陈雄本人也遇上了麻烦：大陆帮派将他诱入埋伏，幸而一红光幻象中的高僧出现，解了陈雄之围。陈雄为了给亲弟报仇，远赴泰国与泰拳王约战，期间陈雄偶然经过一座寺院，恰似红光幻象中的情形。院方僧人竟然早知陈雄身份与来意，原来这里的清照大师（徐锦江 饰）收服了一名降头师，召来其师傅的复仇，清照大师接近修成的金身被破，唯有与清照大师前世为孪生兄弟的陈雄有希望助大师完成金身，清除一众降头师。自此陈雄出家，苦修佛法，与多名降头师展开连串惊心动魄、超出凡人知识的斗法。