恐怖片

　　号称是美国七十年代最非著名的一部科幻电影杰作，导演索尔·巴斯是设计师，还曾两次获过奥斯卡奖，但不知为何这部经典的心理科幻片至今都没出DVD。　　Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them. But the ants have other ideas.　　Phase IV is an incredible full length feature film by Saul Bass who is most acclaimed as a graphic designer who's work can be seen as the opening credits from The Seven Year Itch, Vertigo, West Side Story to Alien, Broadcast News and Casino. Phase IV is a much overlooked film that is very much in the style of The Andromeda Strain. What it perhaps lacks in story, it gains in the photography of the millions of ants.　　索尔·巴斯，美国动画片绘制家、美工师、导演，1920年5月8日生于纽约市，少年时曾经在布鲁克林学院学习绘画，毕业后从事过十年自由职业设计师的职业，1946年在洛杉矶创立索尔·巴斯合作公司。他在为一些影片进行美术设计时，猜出心裁地为片头片尾的演职人员表配上生动活泼的动画人物，这些动画人物的形态动作巧妙地提示了影片的主题，反映了影片的基调，从而使单调乏味的演职人员表和谐地成为了影片不可或缺的一部分，这种大胆的创新丰富了电影的表现形式，广受观众们的喜爱，其后为不少国家的影片所沿用。索尔·巴斯设计片头片尾的影片以《卡门·琼斯》(1955)、《红衣主教》(1963)等片最为著名。此外，他还监制和导演了很多电视广告片、动画片片和纪录片，如《敏锐的眼光》(1963)、《第四相》(1974)等。

　　Three showgirls on their way to Las Vegas have car trouble and are stuck all night out in the desert. The next morning cheerful Andre offers them help in fixing their car. However, Andre is really a maniac with a lot of family problems; his mother ran out on him when he was a child so now he keeps kidnapped women chained up in his barn and trains them to perform circus tricks.

　　本片在澳大利亚80年代初才被允许放映。　　电影取材自50年代连续杀人魔Ed Gein的真实事迹。　　几个年轻人——Sally (玛丽莲·伯恩斯 Marilyn Burns 饰） 、Franklin  (保罗A. 普泰 Paul A. Partain 饰）、Jerry (阿伦·丹齐格 Allen Danziger 饰）、Kirk (威廉·韦尔 William Vail）和Pam (泰瑞·麦克明 Teri McMinn 饰），驾驶房车驶入荒漠中的德州特拉维斯镇。途中，一个满身伤痕、丧魂落魄的搭车人（埃德温·尼尔 Edwin Neal 饰）。勾起了他们的好奇心，他们在他的带领下进入一幢阴森大屋试图弄清真相。大屋被一股神秘、恐怖的氛围所笼罩，仿佛有一双眼睛始终在窥视着他们的一举一动。正当这群年轻人惊恐万分、不知所措时，电锯声骤然而起，他们最后的噩梦随之降临……

　　克里斯蒂安（罗伯特·霍夫曼饰）和他的女朋友正在一个荒芜的海滩上散步，他们发现一具女人的尸体躺在那里。仔细一看发现她还活着。第二天，克里斯蒂安在游艇派对上再次见到她，他们相爱了。后来在附近的一家汽车旅馆，当他们准备一起上床睡觉时，奇怪的事情发生了：一个入侵者闯入并开始殴打克里斯蒂安，克里斯蒂安不小心用自己的枪向他开枪。几个小时后，他们发现尸体失踪，并发生了一系列奇怪的事件。

　　A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new family, with the teen still living inside. Written by Kyle Palkowski　　Scott Jacoby, a nerdy high school youth, accidently kills a neighbor's young daughter. Panicking mother, Kim Hunter, fears the police will not believe that it was an accident. She moves her son into a bathroom that she turned into a secret hiding place. After her death, a new family moves in. In the mean time, Ronald has gotten lost in a fantasy world created in his own head from being hidden away for so long. Written by Humberto Amador

　　戴维斯和他的妻子一直希望能够生一个婴儿，几个月后他们终于如愿以偿，但……他们生出来的却是一个食人活尸！惊慌不已的戴维斯顿时陷入了混乱，是保护婴儿继续存活，还是下毒手杀害它，这让他进退两难。随着警方的到来，戴维斯终于下定决心……

　　科学狂人把美女变成怪物

　　A young soldier killed in Vietnam inexplicably shows up to his family home one night.

　　哈里·考尔（吉恩·哈克曼 Gene Hackman 饰）在旧金山开了一家侦探公司，他最近的一单生意是去窃听一对男女的对话。他精心地在一个广场附近布下层层的窃听装置，来捕捉这对男女所说的每一句话。窃听进行得很顺利，声音很清晰，但他不理解他们所说的话到底什么意思。 他带着录音文件去雇佣他的公司准备拿他的报酬，却被告知老板不在，便决定暂时不交出录音文件，并退回报酬。他只能小心翼翼地保管着他的录音文件，即使在聚会的时候仍旧提心吊胆，生怕录音文件被人偷走。千防万防，录音文件还是丢失了。心急如焚的哈里只能按照他窃听到的录音内容，于某日来到那对男女口中提到的酒店，却不想他正陷入一场巨大的阴谋中……

　　在种族主义泛滥的美国南方小镇，所有的人都处于某种疯狂状态，而最后这种疯狂行径却给大家都带来了灾难，不管是白人黑人还是政府人员，似乎要摆脱这样的厄运要么是离开要么就是以暴制暴主动出击，要想等疯子们回头无疑是自掘坟墓。。影片根据真实事件改编的小说拍摄而成结尾部分震撼人心。。。

　　Former secret agent Robert Elliot (Coburn) will be promoted to government advisor. In order to make sure no-one will ever know about his dirty past, he has invented a very ingenious plan to get rid of his four helpers: he gets them all to unknowingly kill each other in the course of a single night.

　　A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.

　　A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, one-third of a mile below the surface of the Earth. There, they learn that a nuclear holocaust is taking place and that they've been "chosen" by computer to survive in the shelter in order to continue the human race. The shelter is designed to allow the people to exist underground comfortably for years, but they are faced with a threat nobody could have predicted: a colony of thousands of bloodthirsty vampire bats finds a way into the shelter and launches a series of vicious attacks where they claim the humans one by one.