Product description

Blood and Black Lace [1966]

Price: £6.33
Average customer rating: 4.0

Binding : DVD
EAN : 0898598413230
Label : Vci Video
Manufacturer : Vci Video
Publisher : Vci Video
Release date : 2005-11-08
Title : Blood and Black Lace [1966]
Actor : Array
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 2
Original release date : 1966-01-09
Region code : 0
Running time : 90
Studio : Vci Video
Theatrical releaseDate : 1965-04-07
MPN : 8413

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
This delirious mix of sex, sadism and style has a masked man stalking the gorgeous mannequins of a Roman high fashion house, murdering them in a strikingly fetishist manner and then leaving the corpses to be discovered like grisly works of art. Mario Bava's 1964 film, originally titled Sei donne per l'assassino, is one of the earliest slasher movies, and remains a suspenseful, disturbing and oddly seductive film.

The complex, lurid plot features blackmail, murder for profit, drug addiction and scandal among the beautiful people. Smooth Cameron Mitchell and lovely Eva Bartok are the conspirators, pursued by a plodding Columbo-style detective. However, Bava goes beyond the world of Agatha Christie or Edgar Wallace to embrace the surreal and the nightmarish. Each murder is handled like a musical number, with elaborate camera moves, striking colour effects and a strangely memorable jazz score. There is certainly more than a tinge of misogyny in the treatment of actresses as disposable dummies, but the plot is equally cynical about its grasping, feeble, suspicious male characters. This welcome video release--more complete than any previous UK edition--is letterboxed to show off the cinematography and, most importantly, preserves Bava's astonishingly rich colour effects. --Kim Newman

Customer reviews

review by: Stevie Wayne date: 2008-11-18 rating:

Blood and English Subtitles!

I've tried numerous times to add more product details to the above now OOP (out of print) German release, but Amazon UK appear to have no option on adding subtitle info on the damn listing.
So here goes, this amazing and now rare release contains full English subtitles for the main feature, with the option of watching it in it's original release Italian audio, or even German should you prefer.

Personally, this dvd is worth the price just for the deleted 'I Vampiri' footage as contained the its rare trailer included here. As for the bonus Mario Bava film trailers in the extras...

review by: date: 2008-09-22 rating:

Gore Among The Girls
This is an entertaining film despite the --at times very-- gory nature of some of the murders. The ladies are indeed very beautiful and the settings in the Roman winter lusciously opulent, the main one being a palazzo where a fashion house is based. I also loved the soundtrack and extras (on second disc) by Carlo Rutichelli, very similar to some tracks from The Joker Is Wild (I think now not available) on a vinyl disc not for publiuc sale, which I recall having from my uncle (who met some Hollywood people at times) in the mid-1960's. Worth seeing for sure.

review by: date: 2008-05-02 rating:

Essential viewing
Classic Italien export. You don't know good dark cinema until you've watched some Mario Bava. One of, if not his best film. Not for everyones taste, but for me... heavenly.
Thank you Mr. Bava for this and all your other creations!

review by: tom date: 2006-10-28 rating:

italians did much better horror films than any Hammer British Horror ever did
In fact this Bava's classic suspense and thrilling movie inspires many famous Horror-directors like Lucio Fulci, George Romero, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, Tim Burton, Dario Argento and his own son Lamberto Bava 20 years later. Mario Bava had influenced especially Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and George Romero during the early 60's very strong. They enjoyed this classic thrilling movie so much.

The most important Analyze is:
Unlike the most Hammer British Horror movies which explain you the whole summary or story very commonly, then everyone will soon realize and experience how the story finally will close.

No..Mario Bava didn't do like that! This movie has a very intelligent Hitchcock's crime element, because Bava's surrealistical psychokiller shows in the movie strongly, how the invisible woman-killer seems to have a clear purpose at the end of the film and why the mysterious killer did kill all the young pretty women in the old model agency. Firstly the audience cannot experience so well ???

Are the motives having to do with greedy, money & power ?

I will not betray it. Pls just see and watch the film !!

review by: date: 2000-11-28 rating:

Stunning set piece slayings with style
At long last an oppurtunity to appreciate Mario Bava's masterpiece in it's complete unexpurgated format. For years the only version of this classic giallo or thriller has been a toned down American market orientated print - now at long last it is there to be enjoyed for the gruesome masterpiece that it is.

Bava, a maestro for simple visuals and effects designed to sock and surprise his audience set the pre-cursor with Blood and Black Lace - which later was to influence Dario Argento, and across the pond Martin Scorcese, Tim Burton and Brian De Palma. At long last Bava, 20 years after his death, is being appreciated, for his talent. Hopefully more of his works will become available to a wider audience to be enjoyed.

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