浪人民谷伊右卫门（天知茂 饰）贪污巨额公款，魂断被丈人四谷左门（浅野进治郎 饰）得知，魂断四谷不满其卑鄙品行，严命女儿阿岩（若杉嘉津子 饰）与之离婚。丈婿话不投机，刀剑相向，伊右终将四谷残忍杀害。这之后，他与好友直助（江见俊太郎 饰）串通，谎称丈人为仇家杀害，带着阿岩、阿岩的妹妹阿袖（北泽典子 饰）以及阿袖的未婚夫与茂七（中村龙三郎 饰）逃往江户。途中，二人又密谋将与茂七推下悬崖。暂时安定下来的伊右渐渐不满贫穷的生活和妻子的拖累，偶然机会他从流氓手中救出富商的孙女阿梅（池内淳子 饰），富商欣赏其英武，欲将其招为孙婿。得知此讯的直助再次前来，和伊右密谋杀害碍手碍脚的阿岩……
猎虹乐团
回复 :郊外，发生了一起肢解女尸的案件，死者是一个身怀有孕的未婚少女。此后，类似命案又接连发生，而且手法类似。女警官金密云（廉晶雅 饰）与男警官姜太勋（池珍熙 饰）在调查中发现，罪犯的作案手法跟一个在押死刑犯申贤（曹承佑 饰）如出一辙。但是，问题在于在深牢大狱中的他并不具备作案可能性。于是，他们决定审问此人，希望可以找到破案线索。然而，女警官金密云对于这个囚犯怀着极其复杂的心情，因为她昔日的恋人就是因为在抓捕这个嫌犯时自杀身亡的，对此，她一直耿耿于怀不敢面对现实。年轻的姜警官开始并不了解，但是在相处中慢慢体会到她的伤痛。然而，在对抗死刑犯申贤的过程中，两个人却先后走入了一个静心设计好的圈套之中……
可米小子
回复 :安妮•布外兹（Tisa Farrow 饰）的父亲驾船前往某小岛，但此后三个月音讯全无。某日，父亲的小船漂回纽约，船上空无一人。当警卫员检查船舱时，却遭到一个丧尸的袭击。记者彼得•怀斯特（Ian McCulloch 饰）对此事颇为好奇，他和安妮相约前往那座神秘小岛。当他们到达目的地时，却惊奇地发现，当地伏都教的诅咒令人们染上一种怪病，且可使死人复活。但复活后的人只是嗜血如命的恐怖丧尸。他们在岛上遇见了莫纳德医生（Richard Johnson 饰），为了活命，三个人必须通力合作，找到治疗这种怪病的方法……
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.
