- Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner, Ariana Gorini, Dante DiPaolo
- Directors: Mario Bava
- Writers: Mario Bava, Giuseppe Barilla, Marcello Fondato
- Producers: Alfredo Mirabile, Massimo Patrizi
- Format: Collector's Edition, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Vci Video
- DVD Release Date: 8 Nov 2005
- Run Time: 84 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000BB1926
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 45,275 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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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
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
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.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
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...
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...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Mario Bava's seminal body count giallo was really the first film to merge the fashion world with ritualistic murders, and none of it's imitators have managed to capture the same level of intensity. Blood and Black Lace not only influenced and changed the giallo and Italian horror genre, but also managed to influence alot of great and talented filmmakers as well. In a way it seemed like Bava was like this Italian Hitchcock, his films were filled with suspense, great direction and sometimes some genuine frights like in Black Sabbath. Mario Bava's 1964 Blood and Black Lace is a stunningly beautiful piece of workmanship, crafted with obvious care and punctuated by some of the best violent ends, and with Lace Bava created the giallo form that would reign so predominately for the next dozen odd years in Italian horror cinema. Bava would follow Blood and Black Lace the following year with the ALIEN-esque Planet of the Vampires before returning to a more earthly terror in 1966's Kill, Baby, Kill!.
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