earliest masked slasher
my review of the movie- the ending title card was so true. "FINE." it was fine.
also listen to the theme: [here] it's delicious
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Eva Bartok
Sei donne per l'assassino
Mario Bava, 1964
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6 donne per l'assassino (1964)
AKA Blood and Black Lace
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BLOOD AND BLACK LACE, (aka SEI DONNE PER L ASSASSINO), Claude Dantes, 1964 Courtesy Everett Collection
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Blood and Black Lace, Mario Bava
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Giallo films are great, because they're like Italian slashers mixed with Scooby-Doo. You see the killer committing horrible murders on screen but you also follow someone trying to solve the mystery. They're horrific but also frequently wacky and funny, and usually have the greatest shots you've ever seen in your life. Just a wild, wild ride for every one.
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Recently watched: Italian horror maestro Mario Bava’s slasher movie Blood and Black Lace (1964). Tagline: “A fashion house of glamorous models becomes a terror house of blood!” A sadistic masked and gloved serial killer is relentlessly stalking and murdering his way through the fashion models of the chic haute couture salon run by ultra-rich designer Cristina (Eva Bartok) and her lover Max (Cameron Mitchell). (Picture a procession of fiercely elegant women wearing cocktail dresses with impeccable beehive hairdos getting gruesomely murdered one by one). I’m no expert on Bava - the only other film of his I’ve seen is Black Sunday (1960) with cult movie queen Barbara Steele – but wow, what a stylist! From the credits to the white-knuckle finale, Bava envelopes you in a supremely alluring vision with the soundtrack (Latin exotica, heavy on the bongos), costumes, baroque sets and lighting (characters are routinely bathed in fuchsia or green neon, even when that light source makes no sense). Perhaps inevitably, there are vivid splashes of red: an incriminating leather-bound diary, handbags, telephones - and of course - plumes of blood. The victims’ grisly deaths still pack a genuinely nasty jolt. (As Slant magazine put it, “The killings in Blood and Black Lace are still disturbing yet have the vitality of pop art”). An additional bonus: the juicy overripe performances from Hollywood’s Cameron Mitchell and Hungary’s Eva Bartok, both veterans of European co-productions. (The same year, Mitchell starred opposite Jayne Mansfield in the truly wild German exploitation flick Dog Eat Dog – what a career!).
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6 donne per l'assassino (1964) - Spanish Herald
AKA Blood and Black Lace, Six Women for the Murderer
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Blood and Black Lace (1964)
An obscenely stylish giallo film with amazing cinematography and a very striking and memorable killer. Definitely worth a watch if you're a fan of murder and/or mystery, but like any foreign film with an English dub, you want to make sure you're getting the most uncut version availalable.
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