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.
當年``笑死
無敵鐵蓮花。
笑死人
一想到是惡心,可是其實看的時候一點不覺得
Ferrell還能再騷點嘛?
人至賤則無敵
3.8星。還挺搞笑的,影響最深的是小電視機里放的朝鮮的那個鋼鐵蓮花動作,女方的頭…emmm…
故事還可以,算是有意思。但劇本很平,無人物、無足夠的阻礙,整個片看完就忘,沒什么意思。唯一讓我笑的只有幾個橋段而已,十分失望……
很^.^
不錯的搞笑片。
倆人老互相玩對方的JB。。。。。。。。。。。。
其實比鋼鐵蓮花要厲害的是鋼鐵菊花!感謝@邪惡的大好人大晚上陪我值班還跟我一起吃大年初一的肯德基餃子.....拋去他女友不在身邊這一因素,這體現了怎樣的階級友情??!
結尾的星座太神奇了
be a spy gril
果然是非常GAY向的電影...誰能告訴我那個莫明的飛天結尾難道素表明兩人拋開世俗滴想法私奔去月球了滅...那招鋼鐵蓮花還蠻酷的...
哈哈 拿破侖那小子啊
我喜歡的惡搞片
好賤
Johnny你杯具了...
I like this!