雷尼（约翰尼·德普 Johnny Depp 饰）的妻子出了轨，为王他发现她和另一个男人躺在床上，为王他提出了离婚。然而，婚姻的阴影并没能使雷尼恢复原气。他的文笔开始暗淡无光，找不到从前的创作激情。于是，他来到了一个湖畔小屋疗伤创作。然而这个小屋，却给他带来了新的麻烦。首先是一个陌生人的造访令他十分恼火。那人声称雷尼抄袭了他的作品，雷尼百般解释也不能让他信服。于是雷尼翻箱倒柜，想找出原稿，却发现原稿离奇失踪。惊悚事件陆续有来，整个小屋，好像出于某种危险的情势中，雷尼非常害怕，然而却查不出缘由。是不是前妻和她的情人在作怪？他们到底有何目的？然而，真相却让雷尼自己都不敢相信。
回复 :John Alexander’s wife, Helen, has left him for her lesbian lover. As she speeds away from their mansion for the last time, her Jaguar explodes and she is killed. As the weeks pass, police detectives begin to suspect Helen’s death to be murder with John as a prime suspect. Still devastated by the loss, John slips into a deep depression until he views a recently made lesbian porn film that appears to feature his dead wife! He becomes obsessed with finding the woman in the film and his search propels him into the sleazy porno underworld of drugs and mobsters, with the police detectives one step behind him.
回复 :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.
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回复 :基于Kerry Greenwood所著同名畅销书，讲述20年代私家侦探芙里妮·费雪在澳洲探案的经历。
