Monday, 21 July 2014

A giallo origin story

Blood and Black Lace (1964)

Directed by Mario Bava this film stars Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner and Ariana Gorini. A masked killer is stalking and killing models at an Italian fashion house.

Despite this film often being sighted as a key influence in starting the genre to a modern eye it does not come off as that special. The plot is fairly bland and does not offer a lot beyond a reason to kill a lot of barely dressed women. At times it shows that the film was made on a low budget but there are still a couple of nice sequences.


3/5

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