Bill Kiowa (Montgomery Ford) is released after a five-year prison term for a crime he did not commit. The bandit El Fego (Tatsuya Nakadai), who did the actual crime, also killed Kiowa's young Native American wife. Once free, Kiowa raises a gang to go after the man who framed him. An Italian western in the A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS mold with a better than average cast, which includes Bud Spencer in the debut of his heavy-handed character (later made famous in the TRINITY series) and the outstanding Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai, famous for his role in Akira Kurosawa's KAGEMUSHA. Written by horror-meister Dario Argento and presented here in the English-language version (which, considering it was filmed MOS with an international cast, is nearly as original dialogue as its Italian-language counterpart).
A young Canadian nurse (Betsy) comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager (Paul Holland). Jessica seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever. When she falls in love with Paul, Betsy determines to cure Jessica even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony, to give Paul what she thinks he wants.
Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster's main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. In order to be even more efficient in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. One day he meets a strange, shadowy man, Nick Beal, who offers to help him to achieve his end. Beal convinces hesitating Foster by dint of easy money, easy sex with an alluring young woman and the promise of easy success. Joseph Foster soon becomes an influential politician but a corrupt one. A minister of God manages to show him that he has been the plaything of the so-called Nick Beal, who might be Old Nick , that is to say Satan himself. Foster then decides to resign and to become an honest man again.
While on a botanical expedition in Tibet Dr. Wilfred Glendon is attacked in the dark by a strange animal. Returning to London, he finds himself turning nightly into a werewolf and terrorizing the city, with the only hope for curing his affliction a rare Asian flower.
亚瑟(阿尔·帕西诺 Al Pacino 饰)是一位精明强干的律师,在车水马龙的繁华都市巴尔的摩生活和工作。和大部分利欲熏心为了金钱可以放弃底线的同行们不同,亚瑟始终坚守着自己正义的准则,为小人物发声,绝不违背良心。 亚瑟的出淤泥而不染让同行们对他敬而远之,将其视作异类,然而亚瑟并不在意。某日,在法庭上,亚瑟得罪了法官亨利(约翰·福赛思 John Forsythe 饰),两人就此结下了梁子。谁知道,当亚瑟再度见到亨利之时,后者已经因为强暴伤害罪沦为了阶下囚。亨利要求亚瑟替自己辩护,如果亚瑟不从,这势必会对他今后的职业道路产生毁灭性的打击。
Americans on vacation in the Caribbean take a tour of a nearby island at night and watch a local voodoo ritual. Soon after, they find themselves stranded on the island and under attack by unseen foes. One by one they meet violent ends.
阿尼•科宁汉姆(Keith Gordon 饰)是某所高中内极不起眼的学生,他沉默寡言、木讷内向。父母对他没有过多关注,身边只有女友丽(Alexandra Paul 饰)和好哥们丹尼斯(John Stockwell 饰),再无其他朋友。 某天,阿尼看上一辆1958年产的二 手普利茅斯•复仇女神(Plymouth Fury),他立刻爱上了这辆车,毫不犹豫将其买了下来。但是阿尼的举止渐渐变得奇怪起来,他不再关心周遭世界,而是将所有注意力都放在这辆名为“克莉丝汀”的车上。当了解到克莉丝汀的背景之后,丽和丹尼斯决定摧毁汽车,拯救阿尼。然而克莉丝汀似乎对挡在她面前的人毫不留情……
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 andor 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.
主人公是一个叫戴维·曼恩(丹尼斯·韦弗 Dennis Weaver 饰)的中年男人,这天他在空无一人的州际公路上独自驾车。随后一辆大卡车出现了,挡在戴维前面,他毫不客气地超过对方。而后两车在公路上互相超了对方的车,一开始戴维还气冲冲地想超过对方走在前面,后来他却发现大卡车司机像发疯一样想置他于死地。他只好停下来,在路边餐厅整顿一下准备继续上路,发现那辆形如鬼魅的大卡车停在外面,戴维甚至不知道司机是谁。随后大卡车一直追逐着戴维,他想尽办法也甩不掉这辆大卡车,他只好与这辆如影随形的卡车展开决斗…… 本片是斯皮尔伯格的处女作,在美国获得了艾美奖最佳音效剪辑,斯皮尔伯格也因此片获得了拍摄《大白鲨》的机会。
1958年,水晶湖营地发生一起两人死亡的命案,而这只是陆续发生在水晶湖旁的一系列凶案和怪事之一,多年以来,附近居民视营地为不祥之地,有意无意敬而远之。水晶湖营地的老板史蒂夫为重整营地,雇佣六名辅导员一起将营地翻新,爱丽丝、杰克(凯文•贝肯 Kevin Bacon 饰)等六人性格活跃,不时用恶作剧缓解无聊的营地生活。另一方面,厨师安妮奔赴营地而来,却在临近村落受到了“疯子”劳夫的警告,结果安妮未到营地,便被害死在路上。水晶湖营地的怪事频现,蛇和劳夫先后拜访辅导员们,为当地的传言更增添了注脚。当夜大雨倾盆,各行其是的辅导员们先后被杀害,而凶手,就潜藏在他们的周围。
Cette histoire sordide d'un flic de Chicago empêtré dans le vice est racontée par la ville elle-même (s'appuyant sur le fameux poème de Carl Sandburg !) durant 24 heures bien remplies. Remerciements à Martin Scorsese pour la copie.
The body of a schoolgirl is found in a meadow. The murderer is never caught, and years later; a young man named Stefano returns to the island and is reunited with his brother, the local priest