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.
看了评论区，豆瓣傻逼也不少，还真以为会被诅咒啊，你也配被诅咒？你这种智商人家佛母都觉得晦气😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
不肯怂一场
感觉在看海清演恐怖片……这个电影怎么诅咒观众啊！！！中间那段视觉残留带来的冲击真的让人不适了。作为恐怖片而言手法确实很牛。
笑死，战狼看多了的温室花朵眼里怎么能容得下这种晦气东西呢
正如评论里说的，你们看恐怖片难不成是图吉利吗...
喜欢！这是个完全个体的抗疫故事，反思有，个体反抗有，看痛了，太难得了，虽然我知道电影也没站多么高看多么远，没有太多批判和思考。也没什么春秋笔法，它就是用镜头语言说一个事：it matters，he matters
导演一定是在致敬空手指和莲蓬乳。。。虽然早就猜到那个咒语是诅咒，但是看到最后还是挺心酸的，要是能让小孩诅咒减轻，其实也挺愿意帮他分担。。。。。个屁啊，要怪就怪你爸妈作大死
玩不起就别看啊，说晦气然后打1星的人是信咒吗？中肯评价一下电影行不行？导演还没对你们这些白嫖b感觉晦气呢。
哎作为伪纪录片真的不太合格，到处都是不知道哪儿来的摄影机，机位切换太频繁反倒让人出戏。从头到尾 jump scare 也不甚高级，只有开头还谈得上是不错的调度。结尾这么缺德真的不怕观众集体暴揍嘛
以为最后女主回去烧了或者封了那地道。
说这么多，总结一下:
来点我流読者反应批评：这个伪神难道不是已经化为一个 Egregore 了吗？虽然「真实感」于此仍然被作为符码而操纵。就像导演在访谈中说了内容都是假的，就像观众一眼就能辨识出那种视错觉图（不管叫它 PsyOp 或是模因危害都好）和诅咒信的结构差不多、只是一种很基础的诉诸恐惧技巧。但这不妨碍当大部分观众真情实感打出晦气二字之时，它的实在性就愈发被浇筑出来。
3.5 鼓励 中式恐怖能拍这样挺好了 非大众题材但凡出圈必暴跌 前排这么多说晦气 难不成恐怖片给你拍成正能量？
国产的就喷晦气，午夜凶铃就跪着舔，我们大陆观众实在是太厉害辣
很有趣的设定，首先在通往佛母的每一个节点都有神像来镇压，然后在通道里面设置了很多弯道祭品增加逃离难度，像极了逗狗子的操作，最机智的就是用镜子来反向制约佛母，完全是参考美杜莎的设定... 台湾的民俗鬼片不是日本单元房内的阴郁凄冷，而是潮湿的海风里扑面而来的腥臭
富强、民主、文明、和谐、自由、平等、公正、法治、爱国、敬业、诚信、友善。
恐怖迷劝退。蛮假的，人造痕迹太浓，全是摆拍啊，伪纪录已经审美疲劳。还不如马凯超低成本的《中邪》来得自然、实在。打着民俗的旗号，核心还是学的日系恐怖，比如身上写字（《怪谈》），比如咒语扩大化，被不停传播，以求传播者安全（《午夜凶铃》）……，导演一定是长寿日剧《世界奇妙物语》《毛骨悚然撞鬼经》的粉丝，从里面找的创作灵感吧……
作为恐怖片挺成功的，这是一部和观众互动的恐怖片，女主在把观众引入和她身临同境的处境里，导演不过是把古早的“看到不转发到X个群就会XX”的梗融入到电影了。贯穿电影始终的那句让你跟着念的八字咒语“火佛修一，心萨呒哞”不过是「福祸相倚，生死有名」的闽南语谐音。看到评论区骂骂咧咧的大伙儿，感慨在唯物主义无神论下长大的吾辈迷信起来竟是比封建社会的古人有过之而无不及！
觉的晦气并不代表就信了，以前收到“不转发就死全家”这样的短信你会信吗？不也只是单纯觉的晦气么。但这还不是最重要的，最重要的是摄影机的调度实在太烂，视角混乱。导演没有能力驾驭伪纪录片的形式，仅仅是为了配合这个晦气的创意，舍本逐末，可惜了这么好的民俗设定。
虽然诅咒观众其实从贞子那届玩 咒 元素的就不新鲜了，但这片子到底还是把这一点贯彻最到底的。。。然而，除此之外就真的没啥新鲜的了，虫子，头发，背对人，停电，手持摄像，儿童献祭，都是玩烂的梗了，最不能忍的是，主角性格模糊，那个也是贞子时代就一以贯之的“母亲可以为孩子做一切”主题，显得很苍白。。。
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