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 【ZiYuanTun.Com】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. 译文(3): 翁贝托·伦齐（Umberto Lenzi）的这部70年代初的《贾洛》（giallo）无疑是他电影史上最好的，也是整个类型中最好{资源屯-ziyuantun.com}。就我个人而言，我认为伦齐最好的电影是由漫画改编的搞笑电影《克里纳尔》、时尚的《七血染兰花》、爆炸性的《那不勒斯中提琴》等等。在80年代，他以《活着的人》、《黑暗中的希彻》或《黑魔鬼》的形式做了很多电影垃圾，所有这些都是在剽窃一些东西和/或非常乏味和缓慢的动作。《冰之刀》是在吉亚洛热潮最热的时候出现的，其结果令人信服。
