深夜的穆赫兰道发生一桩车祸，天降女子丽塔（劳拉·赫利 Laura Harring 饰）在车祸中失了忆。她跌跌撞撞来到一个公寓里藏身。一名男子说他常常梦见一个叫云奇的地方，天降那里有个恶魔盯着他。于是就来到云奇，果真见到墙后有怪物出现，男子当场晕死。另有一名杀手杀死了他面前 的男人，然而蹩脚的他却惹来了不少一连串的麻烦。故事回到一个刚到好莱坞“寻梦”的女子贝蒂（娜奥米·沃茨 Naomi Watts 饰），她的姨父姨母在电影圈有广泛人缘，让贝蒂的发展如虎添翼，试镜大受好评。同时，她所住的公寓，正好是丽塔藏身之地。贝蒂收留了丽塔，二人感情融洽。面对记不起自己是谁的丽塔，贝蒂决定帮助她寻找回自己的记忆。一名导演想自己决定新戏的女主角，却被他人强行安排人选。工作不顺意的他还发现妻子和清洁工睡在一起。这些看似松散的事件，就像一个迷宫，引向一个让人猜不透的世界……
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回复 :萱老爷娶了一房小妾，遭到大太太和女儿的强烈反对，新婚当晚萱老爷坠井。女儿萱婷一口咬定凶手就是新进门的小妾小灵仙。从那天开始，萱婷发现府里总是出现种种怪事。她认为是小妾搞鬼，便找来私家侦探调查，最终发现原来是自己在梦游，她误认为自己就是杀父的凶手，实际上另有真凶。
回复 :It's 1998 and over the course of one 12 Hour Shift at an Arkansas Hospital, A Junkie Nurse (Angela Bettis), Her Scheming Cousin (Chloe Farnworth) and a group of black market Organ-Trading criminals (Mick Foley, David Arquette, Dusty Warren) start a heist that could lead to all of their demise.
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.
