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.
喜欢拍这种“我给你讲个故事而这个故事还体现了一些道理”的电影也不是不可以，但你故事讲得像个jb一样，道理更是像小学阅读理解参考答案你有脸拿出来说这是“蕴含道理的故事”？自从it follows之后这种烂玩意儿层出不穷，拍出这些破烂儿的煞笔跟酒桌上喜欢给人上课讲道理的油腻中年男有什么区别吗？都给老子滚出银河系。
「温迪戈」这个民俗题材中当前表现最好的还是「直到黎明」这个B级片互动游戏
为什么今年欧美的“恐怖片”都在搞育儿啊？？？？这是什么潮流？？？！！！！！那果然还是亚洲恐怖片灵媒好多了，至少那家的女儿已经工作了……
没有预算的特效，没有逻辑的剧情，没有脑子的主角。导演你是有多穷啊，找个美国的农村地级市，和几个老农民就拍了。怪物累积出场时间3分钟不到。没预算就拍点乡村爱情吧。恐怖片不适合你
21/12/31：怪兽的造型不算太糟 除此以外
第一次看这么弱智的怪物电影，墨迹就墨迹了，怪物跟个女人正面1v1单挑都能被ko。
导演是真的沉不住气，视角得混乱导致全片的悬疑感尽失，基本上警察和老师的探案线就一点效果都没有，因为每次小男孩的戏份都会前置于这些侦察戏，让观众都知道发生了什么之后，并不是结果导向，而是仍当作谜团抛给观众，并且还有许多其实可以放在更后面的桥段，比如关于父亲刚被寄生的戏份，还要刻意用一段改变画幅的段落来作为回忆，总之就是情节编排和剪辑真的不行。而同时主题又很模糊，怪物的设定其实是有些环保主义和自然主义，对于人类破坏自然的反噬，但是除了这个设定本身，全片小男孩生活和小镇的展现却完全没有跟环保主义沾边，如果你要设定成这是一个靠挖矿而生的小镇都还好说，反倒就一群正常镇民突然被一个毫不沾边的怪物给迫害了，托罗可能只提供了怪物设计吧（有点感慨的就是这片子在疫情前就在电影院看了预告，如今快两年了才终于看到）
两星半吧，大概我看得是个阉割版，血腥程度不够。似乎想表达很多：童年阴影（性侵）校园霸凌、吸毒的社会问题、乡村传说等等，节奏缓慢，总觉得没有高潮。
细想可能展开拍个迷你剧更好，这么急匆匆地回顾女主和男孩的身世，雨露均沾，反而哪里都说得不够味。
一般般，怪兽最后才看到一下，战斗不强，看的不过瘾
豆瓣定律，恐怖片5以上的，都是好片子。
铺垫一个小时，最后十分钟被女主一把匕首KO的鹿角怪
电影的怪物很有趣，但是影片内涵不足，似乎讨论了儿童虐待问题，但是点到为止，没有展开，而且怪物的出现也与虐待没有什么本质联系。
题材不错，画风也比较喜欢就是太暗了，这个剧情和运镜哦...
第三幕完全垮掉了，不止烂俗而且处理的异常随意。前面的双线叙事处理的尚可，一边是逐渐揭开谜底的限制性叙事，该有的氛围是做到了，另一边则是对观众的全知视点展示，戏剧反讽的张力也有，反而是结尾最常见的“异形”与人的冲突处理的最为失败。5.5/10
其实就像抖音这类短视频，一两分钟乐呵呵三五分钟就已经是极限了，弄个十几分钟就直接划走了好吧。
前半部分剧情太慢，后面Boss死的太快，节奏有点怪。
惊艳果然只存在于预告片，陀螺+高耶都没办法拯救的民俗怪奇小说改编剧本，从年度最期待恐怖片沦为披着神话皮还想讲点弑父哲学最后却只能充当降智桥段总集的小丑。但不得不说温迪戈在炙热中从宿主体内破腹而出的威慑感以及对奇形怪状尸体的大胆展示确实夺目，而小镇之森自带一种对原住民神话的亲近感却又无法把控鹿魔这种在美学层面迷人得疯狂的异形存在，只能说潘神迷宫中那露骨豪华的礼遇已无法在恐怖片粗俗刻板化的今日重新显现。
家暴和吸毒也是病，不仅是病，还是瘾。有些时候那些人真的永远都不会好起来。
風景不錯，氣氛有點，故事以及拍攝手法狗屎。
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