幕布背后

　　影片根据发生在法国国王路易十五统治时期的真实事件改编。
　　18世纪60年代中期，法国路易十五在位时，一只凶残异常的巨狼一直威胁着吉瓦冈地区，而受害者多是妇女和儿童。一时间，全法国都被触目惊心的血腥杀戮震惊了，无人知道凶兽真正面貌，有人盛传是魔鬼化身。为安定民心，路易十五指派皇家骑士弗朗萨克（塞缪尔·勒·比汉 Samuel Le Bihan 饰）捕杀怪兽。在吉瓦冈逗留期间，弗朗萨克爱上了当地伯爵的女儿玛丽安（艾米莉•德奎恩饰），还与美艳动人的官妓西尔维亚（莫妮卡·贝鲁奇 Monica Bellucci 饰）有染，并结识了玛丽安的哥哥让－弗朗索瓦（文森特·卡索 Vincent Cassel 饰）。随着调查的逐渐深入，弗朗萨克从被害者遗体上发现了一颗钢牙，而一位目击者发誓宣称有人控制着巨狼。随着调查，掀起更恐怖阴谋，一场场血腥杀戮战连串发生……

　　一次事故中他失去了他的右臂，医生为他做了移植手术，他有了一条新的手臂，但是恐怖的事情发生了，故事也渐渐开始....

　　麦克（肯尼思·布拉纳 Kenneth Branagh 饰）是一名私家侦探，一日，一位失去了记忆的女子（艾玛·汤普森 Emma Thompson 饰）向他求助，希望能够通过他的帮助找回自己的身份。在催眠大师富兰克林（德里克·雅各比 Derek Jacobi 饰）的催眠之中，女子得知了自己前世的姓名——玛格丽特。
　　随着时间的推移，麦克渐渐爱上了善良的失意女子，在一次催眠中，他发现自己的前世竟然就是玛格丽特的丈夫罗曼，而玛格丽特正是死于罗曼之手。随着调查的深入，麦克发现富兰克林亦被卷入了他们纷乱复杂的前世今生之中，而他其实才是杀害玛格丽特的真正凶手。如今，命运让富兰克林和玛格丽特再度重逢，亦将玛格丽特置于了危险之中。

　　A mysterious man (Malcolm McDowell) comes to meet a woman living in a house in the woods. Who are they and why are their lives meant to cross? What kind of fate is in store for them?

　　女主角是殭屍中的异类，从死里复活，却陷入永远的迷茫，年少时的女伙伴来相会，人鬼殊途，却延续了早已截断的情感，最後，悲剧以她对伙伴的一噬走进高潮。

　　为了防止过度开采所产生的粮食危机，银河系联邦调查局派出太空英雄麦克调查在Xarbia行星做基因研究的人类，可没想到实验生物突然暴走，并将它们逐一杀死，可怜的人们为了研究基因食物而开发了怪物，到头来反而成了怪物的下酒菜……（非常耐看的一部怪物片，当然不是指里面的n多床戏内容……- -）

　　Three showgirls on their way to Las Vegas have car trouble and are stuck all night out in the desert. The next morning cheerful Andre offers them help in fixing their car. However, Andre is really a maniac with a lot of family problems; his mother ran out on him when he was a child so now he keeps kidnapped women chained up in his barn and trains them to perform circus tricks.

　　A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.

　　町立川曾为美军基地所在地，当地人一方面西化严重，一方面深受创伤。少女真子（梶芽衣子 饰）与一群小姐妹整日游荡街头，无所事事；而以“男爵”（藤龙也 饰）为首的“老鹰”青年组则驾驶着美军军用吉普横冲直撞，招摇过市。某天，少女组中的女孩玛丽抛弃“老鹰”中的男友，转而爱上一个日美混血儿。拥有着不堪过去的男爵下令驱逐镇上所有的混血儿，一场肃清运动席卷而来。
　　来自横滨的混血青年数马（安冈力也 饰）到町立川寻找妹妹小惠，他的歌声感染了内心孤独的真子，而其身份又令男爵恨之入骨。原本相安无事的两组人马剑拔弩张……

　　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.

　　英国伦敦，某地正在举行热闹的派对。单身女子凯特（Franka Potente 饰）得知好莱坞明星乔治•克鲁尼到访伦敦，于是决定提前离开去找心仪的明星签名。由于酒精的作用，凯特在等地铁时沉沉睡去。当她再次醒来时，四下空无一人，不久最后一班地铁到达。地铁的气氛诡异非常，正当凯特不知所措之际，她的同事盖伊（Jeremy Sheffield 饰）出现在车厢中。心术不正的盖伊扑向凯特，突然地铁门打开，盖伊被不明生物拖出车厢，随即惨叫声响起。
　　凯特仓皇失措逃出车厢，找到流浪汉吉米（Paul Rattray 饰）寻求帮助。两人一起前去查看情况，可就在刚离开不久时，吉米的女友曼迪（Kelly Scott 饰）也遭到袭击。噩梦一样的神秘人，在这一晚掌握着所有人的命运……

　　一名年轻的女子漫步在清晨无人的海滩上，突然，海滩如同活了一般把她往沙子里拖，她一边挣扎一般发出绝望的尖叫……警探哈里·考尔德(David Huffman饰)受命前往调查这一罕见的案子。唯一留在沙滩上的证物，只有一颗可能是某个受害者的眼珠。不久，一位老妇人玛丽安娜在海滩遇害。这个神秘恐怖海滩一个接一个地攻击人们。 受害者中大多数被吸到沙子里，消失得无影无踪，少数幸存者落下终身残疾。隐藏在海滩沙子下的...