魔偶奇谭：至小帝国

　　埃尔维拉是一个低成本恐怖电影节目的主持人，她发现自己是新英格兰一位阿姨豪宅的继承人。豪宅里有很多有趣的怪物，她因为想给年轻人带来一些不一样的体验，但却却发生了冲突，。镇上的成年人对她的衣着、语气，对她的一切，尤其是她的性暗示感到反感......

　　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.

　　赵力雪是个典型的香港时代女性，利用假期到马来西亚做奇人奇事专访，她的对象是娶了九个老婆的降头师何炳。力雪的同学伟明在马来西亚开了一间旅行社，招待力雪住在他家，又陪力雪去拜访何炳。力雪在访谈中不慎被何炳下了降头，在回程中竟心神不宁，肚子涨大，伟大胜利明请来金法师为力雪解蛊，何炳见奸计被破，怒而追杀力雪和伟明，两人赶忙躲到金法师家中，何炳于是派被他下蛊威胁伟大明出马，后经金法师和流氓婆二人合力终于铲除了何炳。力雪历经了一场惊险的降头之旅，也顺利完成了她的任务。

　　1983年，某学校的女子联谊会。凯蒂•罗斯（Kate McNeil 饰）等一众青春女孩即将毕业，她们和宿舍的管理员斯雷特夫人（Lois Kelso Hunt 饰）夫人的关系不是很好。借此机会，她们决定戏弄一下这个古怪的老太婆，然而却无意中将其杀害。女孩们并未选择报警，在维姬（Eileen Davidson 饰）的提议下，她们将斯雷特夫人的尸体沉入游泳池池底。
　　次日，联谊会如期举行，女孩们强颜欢笑，试图忘记前一天发生的一切。然而错误的选择扭转了命运的走向。斯雷特夫人的怨念并未散去，就在当晚，恐怖的杀戮接二连三发生了……

　　梅利莎·乔治、斯蒂芬·多尔夫主演的[别走](Don't Go，暂译)柏林电影节曝光首款剧照。该片故事讲述本(斯蒂芬·多尔夫饰)的女儿在事故中去世，而他相信自己可以在梦里将女儿带回来。本从此陷入现实和虚幻交错的空间。该片爱尔兰将于9月4日上映。

　　You wake up in a shabby hotel room with no idea how you got there. You can’t recall your name. You discover there seem to be other young women in other rooms in the same predicament, though one of them seems to know your name: Anne. After an unpleasant encounter with a rather large cockroach, you have a screaming fit. That’s when the nurses arrive to sedate you. And by the way, when night falls, you’ll need to escape from a killer demon with the bloodied head of a deer.
　　Faces of Anne relies heavily on elements of the slasher film – and in many ways, that’s exactly what it is. But the film is also a puzzle, whose central question – Why is Anne here? – allows us to explore theories as to its solution until the very last moment. Are we inside a video game? An escape room? The mind of someone with multiple personalities? The elaborate and nihilistic fantasy of a deranged serial killer? It’s nothing new to remark that the best horror films are often those that reflect the fears of society; this film builds a clever – and viscerally terrifying – analogy of some of the difficulties faced by today’s young people.

　　美联社、《生活》杂志等著名媒体都曾报道过1964年的“月光凶杀案”，当时小镇坠入一片恐慌，一到黄昏就全镇戒严，全副武装的警察上街巡逻。直到三个月再无袭击发生，警察才逐渐撤出。1976年，曾有一部根据该案件改编的同名影片上映。两名幸存者描述凶手有六英尺高，头戴面具，只露出眼睛和嘴巴。
　　2014年版《杀出魔鬼镇》中，连环凶杀再度开始，面具杀手时隔六十多年重现特克萨卡纳，究竟是有人故意模仿，还是有更恐怖的事情暗中酝酿？一个孤独的高中女生，似乎知晓解开这一切的秘密。

　　It's Christmas Eve and Tori just wants to get drunk and party, but when a robotic Santa Clause at a nearby toy store goes haywire and begins a rampant killing spree through her small town, she's forced into a battle for survival.

　　跨国投资银行香港高层约翰收到勒索电邮，如不按指示三日内交出约十九万港币，有关台湾科网龙头公司之机密融资分析就会被公开。为了公司声誉，也为免客户股价大幅波动，约翰暗中找来昔日大学舍堂堂友兼刑警唐辅协助调查。
　　机密融资分析由约翰四位下属负责，其中牧野一度失踪，嫌疑极大。发现档案在内联网被偷之小儒，因曾向电脑部职员阿植求救，结果整个团队连阿植六人，都被约翰安排到附近一间贵宾公寓套房，接受唐辅以至其手下全天候监视，直至完成赎金交易。
　　由于赎金奇少，绑匪显然志不在钱，其多个古怪指示更令人困惑。当阿植协助追踪绑匪电邮源头时，竟发现电邮是由公司伺服器发出，换言之绑匪必有内应。其后电邮证实来自阿植手机，纵然他在早上已遗失手机，而最后是小儒接触他手机，阿植依然百词莫辨。
　　唐辅发现阿植家庭背景殊不简单，疑似内应之神秘人又频频现身，加上科网公司原来曾有高层因新一代网上平台开发延误而被迫离职，甚至行踪成疑，这一切都有关连吗？
　　由开发延误导致融资失败，由此可能触发新一轮全球股灾，到最后绑匪竟要求用约翰用网上拍卖缴交赎款，究竟唐辅这一代会明白新一代的上网心态吗？不了解又能否替约翰低调破案？阿植又可会知道谁是真凶？以至真凶为何要陷害他吗？
　　绑匪背后真正动机又是什麽？

　　A cult kidnaps a young girl and sacrifices themselves by the locust moon. The girl awakes, surrounded by corpses. Years later, the locust moon rises again and the girl is captured by a surviving cult member, informing her demon is growing inside all these years.

　　斯德哥尔摩一家运动场的更衣室，一个男人被残忍杀害。不久他的妻子和小女儿的尸体也在家中被发现，尸体被血腥肢解。警察在搜查现场的时候找到幸存的15岁儿子约瑟夫，他浑身是刀伤，已奄奄一息。
　　国家警署请来心理医生埃里克对约瑟夫催眠以了解凶案发生的经过。
　　真相令人震惊，小男孩约瑟夫竟是杀害并肢解家人的真正凶手。而这时，十年前曾被埃里克催眠的一个女人像幽灵一样出现，埃里克的儿子失踪，恐怖事件也从此一件件接连发生，埃里克面临生死劫……