Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's novel the brilliant but mad Doctor (Thomas Kretschmann) has sustained his creature and himself over two centuries through genetic experimentation. In present-day America Detective O'Connor (Parker Posey) is investigating a series of horrific murders which leads her to the doctor and his creature. What she uncovers reveals the strange evolution the doctor and his creation undergo over the course of two centuries and the divergent paths creator and monster take in pursuing good or evil. 在玛丽·雪莱的小说两百年后，才华横溢但疯狂的医生使他自己和他的怪物从两个世纪前的当初的实验一直幸存下来。如今，美国探员 O'Connor 在调查系列谋杀案时，被引向了医生和他的怪物，并揭露出在长达两个多世纪的漫长岁月中，医生和他作品间的奇特演变和他们踏上善与恶的不同道路。
In the futuristic city of Vanille, with properly tuned ImmerSyst Eyes
Ears the world can look and sound like a paradise. But the life of a father and his young son threatens to disintegrate when the father's device begins to fail. Desperate to avoid facing his own traumatic reality, the man must venture outside to find a replacement, into a city where violence and danger lurk beneath a skim of beautiful illusion.
It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies....
Shipwreck survivors are found on Beiru Island (Infanto tô), which was previously used for atomic tests. The interior is amazingly free of radiation effects, and they believe that they were protected by a special juice that was given to them by the island's residents. A joint expedition of Rolisican and Japanese scientists explores Beiru and discovers many curious things, including two women only one foot (30 centimeters) high. Unscrupulous expedition leader Clark Nelson abducts the women and puts them in a vaudeville show. But their sweet singing contains a telepathic cry for help to Mothra, a gigantic moth that is worshiped as a deity by the island people. The giant monster heeds the call of the women and heads to Tokyo, wreaking destruction in its path.
Upon arrival to Venus, cosmonauts find furious volcanoes and sundry prehistoric beasts in Klushantev's film, based on a novel by the Soviet sci-fi writer Aleksandr Kazantsev. Footage has been recycled in three Corman productions Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Queen of Blood, and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (the directorial debut of Peter Bogdanovich). 83mi
◎简 介 1976年戛纳正式竞赛片,想象力令世人震惊. 帕维尔.祖拉契克,捷克新浪潮电影运动中的天才导演,被誉为捷克新浪潮电影革命中真正的灵魂,做为整个东欧电影新生运动中最独特的剧作家之一,他创作了好几部在捷克东欧电影史上占有重要地位的影片. 黑白电影“The End of August at the Hotel Ozone”出品于1967年。它是编剧Pavel Juracek和导演Jan Schmidt合作的第二部作品，这两人是可以代表上世纪60年代捷克电影新浪潮流派的两位天才。 在当时的东欧，一些有政治报复的电影人希望通过银幕来唤醒人们对极权的认知和反抗，但囿于体制壁垒难以使用现实主义体裁，于是拍出了大量科幻、童话、象征或神秘主义电影。Juracek和Schmidt正是属于这一阵营。 故事开始于一场几乎毁掉全人类的战争之后，山野里出现由一个老妇带领的八个年轻姑娘，她们一路跋涉，寻找食物和或许还活着的男人，希望成为“新世界之母”。 当时东西方核储备竞争造成的末世恐慌是这部电影想当然的象征物，却不像其它多数末世电影般先给出一片荒土和废墟的影像，并将角色披上盔甲、戴上面罩，塑造得如机器人一般——在“The End of August at the Hotel Ozone”里，大地一片盎然生机，植物在疯长，到处都是动物，片中的八位姑娘个个也健康丰满、强壮矫健。她们就这样生活在饱和到几乎溢出来的自然之中，只是见不到人，祖先留给她们的是枪弹、炸药和汽油。 影片强调她们是因懂事前就脱离了社会与文明，于是不再具备某些被公认的“人性”。片中有一些很残酷的镜头——动物保护主义者一定难以忍受——譬如像一群狼一样把一头奶牛剖开、用枪托砸碎一只一直渴望跟随她们的狗的脑袋等等。经历过文明的老妇教会她们怎样使用语言、文字、杯子和枪，但没有办法使她们成为文明人，因为她们失去了社会。 影片后半部里他们遇到了一个孤独活在农场里的老人，从他那里见识了诸多文明的遗迹，譬如一台再也放不出的电视、一张旧报纸和一架械动留声机，她们只对留声机感兴趣——这里电影似乎在暗示：音乐与文明之间并非有必然的联系。 最终老妇因病去世，姑娘们冷漠地准备抛下农场老人离开，并要带走那架动留声机，老人豁然明白她们不懂感恩、毫无人情，他被姑娘们枪杀了。 电影里有太多的象征与隐喻，每个人都可以给出自己的解释。另外，其黑白影像细节锐利而构图绝妙，从远景到人物脸部特写的镜头切换干净果断、了无痕迹。无论从内涵还是美学来估判，这都是部深刻的经典之作。 其实，上文中提到的那些极权下勇于政治干涉的电影人，他们中的一些在革命者和艺术家两种角色之间终于晃晕了脑袋。本来，他们是不得不用一些象征、意象、解构的方式来呈现其主题，结果主题却被形式颠覆了，他们的后期作品成为了干脆的试验影像，尽管依旧精妙，却已是空中楼阁。
A young couple Mira (Abbie Cobb) and Todd (Sean Faris) hire a live-in nurse (Lyndon Smith) to be the caregiver for their sick son, only to discover that she is an angel of death intent on replacing Mira through any means necessary.
A city PR girl goes on the run accused of leaking information from the military supply company where she works. Chased by ex-soldiers she hides with her brother, a member of a shadowy hacker group, and has to choose between her luxury life - and the Redistributors.
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 andor 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.
