黑狱杀人王

　　The son of a sheriff falls in love with runaway bootlegger's daughter in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky. After discovering a dark family secret, he is forced to choose between protecting his father or saving the girl he loves.

　　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.

　　传说中，鹈鹕会啄破自己的胸膛，用鲜血滋养饥饿的幼鸟。身为驯马师的母亲领养了孤儿拉雅，谁料拉雅因从小心灵受到重创，无法像常人一样感知亲情，时而出现过激举动，让母亲和姐姐十分困扰。在自己和养女之间，母亲做出了无私的决定。来自女性导演的作品以悬疑、惊悚类型片的方式探索母性这一永恒的话题。

　　郭不凡与自己父亲郭文育的关系并不太好，一次争吵之后郭不凡收到消息自己父亲被害，而警长黎刚通过调查认为郭不凡嫌疑很重。无意间，郭不凡发现了父亲的遗物一本笔记，当他看着笔记的时候睡着，梦里他看到了一个意外的真相“有关父亲临死前经历的事情。

　　澳大利亚惊悚片，看着窗外缓缓变换的景色，彤恩的眼神略带焦虑，因为她刚犯下一宗伤害案，身后还引来一名男子的调查与追缉，她带着女儿驾车逃往偏远的山区，在当地旅馆躲了起来。母女俩待在这与世隔绝的小小世界，享受难得的相处机会，然而当紧追在后的男子出现，却将拆散两人仅有的世界。

　　乔治城原是一平静小镇，但忽然发生数起离奇凶杀案，而且尸首上都出现宗教仪式的钉痕；更残酷的是：凶手使用电击药品，使被害人造成麻□叫不出来；但被害过程的极限痛楚，仍有知觉！被害人自天真无邪的孩童到与世无争的神父均无一幸免，使得小镇人心惶惶，深恐惨遭毒手！乔治城的警长比尔，不断回想起十几年前被恶魔附身之神父戴明跳楼自杀的悲剧，但是不解：恶魔应该随著神父的牺牲而消灭，怎么可能又复出作祟？
　　电影相关：
　　·布拉德·道里夫扮演了一个在狱中的角色，当他被问及如何在不被察觉下进出监狱时，他答道：“It's child's play”。这句话在暗指他曾为1988年的《Child's Play》(灵异入侵)、1990年的《Child's Play 2》(鬼娃回魂2)和1991年《Child's Play 3》(灵异入侵少年军团)中的Chucky配音。
　　·影片灵感来自于闻名全美国的连环杀手The Zodiac。
　　·片中大学校长说他最喜欢的电影是1958年的《变蝇人》，而扮演校长的Lee Richardson出演了1989年的《变蝇人2》。
　　·影片编导威廉·彼得·布拉蒂(William Peter Blatty)曾希望片名能与他的小说《Legion》同名，在他的反对下，片名最终仍被定为“The Exorcist III”。
　　·最初本片中并没有Jason Miller加盟，实际上，卡拉斯神父的死尸是由布拉德·道里夫扮演，当时的场景是乔治C·斯科特正在手术台上检查神父的尸体。在试映之后，制片人决定影片中应该出现1973年《驱魔人》中的演员，于是威廉·彼得·布拉蒂重写了剧本，Jason Miller扮演了卡拉斯神父。
　　·影片改编自威廉·彼得·布拉蒂出版于1983年8月1日的小说《Legion》，但当初他并不愿卖出电影拍摄权，直到自己登上了导演的交椅。虽然片名定为“驱魔人3”，但小说和剧本中没有任何驱魔情节，制片方不得不在拍摄中刻意加入了驱魔场景。
　　·威廉·彼得·布拉蒂曾希望由约翰·卡朋特执导本片，但被后者拒绝。
　　精彩对白：
　　The Gemini Killer：I like plays. The good ones... Shakespeare... I like Titus Andronicus the best; it's sweet. Incidentally, did you know that you are talking to an artist? I sometimes do special things to my victims: things that are creative. Of course, it takes knowledge, pride in your work... For example, a decapitated head can continue to see for aproximately twenty seconds. So when I have one that's gawking, I always hold it up so that it can see its body.
　　杀手：我喜欢戏剧，特别是莎士比亚的，我最喜欢《泰特斯·安德洛尼克斯》，真不错。对了，你知道你在同一位艺术家交谈吗？有时我会对我的牺牲品做些特别的事，一些有创造性的事。当然，这需要学识，以你的工作为荣。比如说，一只被砍掉的头颅会继续存在视觉将近20秒，所以当我砍下一个人的脑袋，我总是拿着它让它能看见自己已经分离的躯体。

　　Erstwhile Special Forces operative Doc Alexander is asked to broker a truce with the Mexican drug cartel in secrecy. When Oklahoma Governor Richard Jeffs celebrates the execution of a high-ranking cartel member on TV, his Chief of Staff and Doc inform him about the peace he just ended. But it’s too late, as Cuco, the cartel’s hatchet man, has set his vengeful sights on Doc’s daughter Dixie.
　　They don’t make ’em like Little Dixie anymore: honed to the bone, all gestures and actions, only a few words. Too many genre films these days try to create meaning by piling ideas and intentions on their narrative frames. John Swab, as always, works the other way around. Meaning and depth come from taking away whatever is superfluous – by reducing the plot to its bare essence and the characters to their core trades and tricks.
　　Ultimately, Little Dixie feels like the pulp fiction version of a Giacometti sculpture, all fearful symmetries and mirror images. A gem of crime cinema at its purest and most philosophical, proudly featuring noir’s new darling, Frank Grillo.

　　个性压抑的霍克斯，随手打了一个电话号码"976"，欲询问当天的星座运势。但当他听完对方的声音后，性情突然大变，从一个原本懦弱专受人欺负的倒霉鬼，摇身一变成残暴的杀人凶手，狰狞的面孔与长又尖的指甲，彷佛被撒旦附身。霍克斯开始展开一连串的报复行动，打算将整个城镇变成人间地狱，唯一可以制止他的只有当地的一个新闻记者以及学校的性感女老师……

　　George和Michael兄弟自幼受到Anwar叔叔的教诲学习巫术。直到Anwar叔叔被警察击毙。二十年后，兄弟俩将叔叔的大脑从坟墓中挖出，并准备在仪式上将千年女魔Shitaar女王复活。Shitaar女王需要用许多人的肢体拼凑，他们利用自己的素食快餐店物色对象，又能将剩余的“边角料”充当“素食”卖给顾客享用。Shitaar女王复活还需生吞一名处子作为祭品，而这祭品正是当年击毙Anwar的警察的女儿。

　　在五十年代被烧死的女皇玛丽·卢，逃离了地狱，再次走在汉密尔顿高中的走廊，寻找血液。 她选择亚历克斯护送她到这个的世界，平均沮丧的学生梦想有一天成为一名医生。 随着玛丽·卢开始恢复体力，身体开始攀升，汉密尔顿高级毕业生的班级再次小于预期。

　　本片是一出剧中剧：相貌平平的婷（Pitchanart Sakakorn 饰）渴望成为万人瞩目的大明星，为此她在表演进修班刻苦学习。某个夜晚，她受警方邀请成为一名还原凶案过程的演示者。虽然这份工作实在有点阴森奇怪，不过婷却离她的明星梦越来越近。在这一过程中，婷的身边也开始出现诡异现象。某天，泰国选美佳丽敏（Apasiri Nitibhon 饰）遭人杀害，婷意识到这是一个令自己一跃成名的良机，她仔细研究敏的生平和案情，准备全心演好这个角色，不过却因此经历了更多离奇的事件，婷开始更为深入地探究敏被害的秘密。
　　饰演婷的女孩梅在这部恐怖片拍摄过程中也经历了许多怪事，她甚至在现场神秘晕倒。似乎虚幻总与现实相关联，围绕这出根据真实事件改编的恐怖片，更多怪事层出不穷……

　　沉默寡言的亚希的电影放映室，但却和她性格相反、漂亮张扬的影山是好朋友，在一次电影的放映中亚希发现，自己看见了一个忧郁的孩子，而亚希也不是表面上看起来那么简单，故事从这里开始变得蹊跷起来...