风光秀丽，日本细腰丰胸，日本委内瑞拉亚马逊河流域的奥里诺科河上响彻着欢快热情的歌声。美国大使阿诺德·里吉斯与委内瑞拉外交部长瑟吉奥·科多巴正在进行政治磋商，但是好景不长，他们突然遭到食人鱼群的袭击。血雨腥风，无人生还。不久大使遇害的消息传到美国，国务卿鲍勃·格莱迪（贝瑞·威廉姆斯 Barry Williams 饰）立刻派出特种兵杰森·菲奇（保罗·罗根 Paul Logan 饰）前往调查。与此同时，来自洛杉矶的基因学教授莎拉·梦露（Tiffany 饰）与同伴们正在对奥里诺科河里的生物进行检测，他们发现，实验用的食人鱼不知因何种原因逃入河中，而且正以极快的速度生长，体型将变得更加庞大。她希望杰森劝说刚愎的迪亚兹上校封闭河流。然而似乎为时已晚……
黄琦雯
回复 :故事根据民间传说“钟馗伏妖”故事改编。每逢千年便有日食天象，届时更是昆仑山灵力最弱，阴气最盛之时。此时，昆仑山魔井开启，魔能涌出，万妖出动。妖魔或附身于常人，夜间吸食人类阳气，被侵蚀的人们诡异而凶残；或化为人形捕食人类。恐怖灵异事件不断，你我之间难分人妖，人间如地狱般阴郁恐怖。终南山进士钟馗不惧邪祟，与师傅一起斩妖除魔，却发现在妖身后，还有更惊人、更令人恐惧、更令他难以抉择的真相在等待着他……
吉川晃司
回复 :查尔斯．拉蒙特执导的一部恐怖喜剧，由高脚七、矮冬瓜和鲍里斯．卡洛夫合演。剧情描述在维多利亚时代的伦敦，两名新手警察碰上了一个化身博士，展开了连串斗法。本片虽无特别精彩的笑料，但英国着名恐怖片明星鲍里斯．卡洛夫的演出及特技化装均有可观之处。当年在英国公映时，曾被电检列为X级，但后来却可以在儿童电视节目中放映。
胡耀威
回复 :Out of the fifties 'B' Science-Fiction monster movies, this easily ranks as the best. It's most notable as the film that ALIEN is an unaccredited remake of, thus giving it a certain historical significance.The intriguing plot is about the rescue of the only marooned survivor (Col. Carruthers) of an ill-fated expedition to Mars. The authorities, pig-headed as usual, falsely assume that he murdered his fellow crew members, so that he'd have more provisions to survive; hence he is being brought back to Earth to face court-martial for murder. (There is also a somewhat interesting plot reversal here: Most movies of this nature usually begin with the ship leaving Earth, enroute to its otherworld destination, while, in this case, the "story" is believed finished, and begins as the characters take-off from the other planet, returning to Earth). As the rescue ship is leaving Mars, a lurking, ominous shadow is seen in the lower compartment. (A frightening, atmospheric moment, accomplished through sheer economy and simplicity).Carruthers insists of his innocence to his fellow captors, claiming that his original crew mates were slaughtered by a hostile, unseen presence on the desolute red planet, but three-guesses as to their reaction to his unusual plea. Naturally, he can't prove it, and 50's space authorities were not very alien conscience at the time. (As a side-thought, "unseen menace" may remind you of that highly "original" BLAIR WITCH).As everyone sacks out, a hapless supporting charactor whose name is at the bottom of the casting list (guess what will happen to him?) hears something in the lower compartment. Despite your futile "don't go down there, you jerk!" pleas, he does just that, and is appropriately killed (more like thoroughly obliterated) by the shadowy figure with insatiable blood lust on its mind. In the victim's case, dereliction of duty and sheer cowardliness would have been the wise decision. The scene is actually well-directed (for a change) and develops much suspense, as the entire film surprisingly does.The crew finally catches on that they have an unwanted ship crasher on board, and try every possible means at their disposal to eliminate it, but the unknown creature seems to copping an anti-death attitude. Proving to be an even more clever, worthy adversary, 'IT!' also hides out in the ventilation shafts of the ship (now that should ring a bell). Cahn's forceful direction generates considerable tension as the malevolent stowaway works its way up from one level of the confined ship to the next, eventually leaving the remaining characters trapped at the top. The movie's suspense is blunt and right to the point: "IT!' has to kill them or starve, hence they have to kill "IT!" or die. Nothing like those "no two ways about it" choices. Rent it, or check for it on cable if you wish to know the outcome.For a low-budget quickie, IT! is quite impressive and memorable. The dreaded sense of claustrophobic tension, rendering the characters' helpless entrapment, is highly effective. This is a production in which the limited budget and small sets actually work in favor of the plot's scary ambience. The black & white photography (Yes, it's one of those!) helps to enhance its dark, creepy mood, and the sense of apprehension is quite high. (Modern day color freaks never seem to take that into consideration). The plot is also somewhat cynically ironic: If the creature hadn't stowed away on the ship, Carruthers would have most likely been found guilty of the charges against him.The intelligent script (see what I mean about "rareity") was penned by noted Science-Fiction author Jerome Bixby (remember Twilight Zone's "It's a Good Life")? The picture's taut editing eliminates any extraneous dross. (ALIEN tended to drag in its first hour with its sophomoric dialogue, and why did it have to include that stupid and ultimately counter-productive sub-plot of Ash being a robot, and further dragging the story down to another big bad conspiracy cliche? UNNECESSARY!!!)Director Cahn astutely keeps the rubber-suited monster off-screen and in the shadows through-out most of the proceedings, keeping your paranoid imagination on constant alert. Unfortunately, perhaps at the studio's commercial insistance, it is a little over-revealed at the climax, but I haven't claimed this to be the perfect masterpiece. The performances, though nothing award-winning, are nevertheless cool enough so that one becomes sincerely concerned as to their fates. Not many movies in recent times ever come close to achieving that. They can be over-produced from here to eternity, and usually only succeed in being gloriously annoying.This film's story is not really totally original (what is?), for it is based on A.E. Van Vogt's "VOYAGE OF THE SPACE BEAGLE." All ALIEN fanatics should track down an old used copy to see where the initial influence came from.As long as you're not craving another CGI wind-ding, you may find it worthwhile. Just don't expect the women to be Ripley precursors. This was still the sock-knitting fifties, sad to say.
