Blood & Black Lace
by Mario Bava
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Actor: Ariana Gorini, Cameron Mitchell, Dante DiPaolo, Eva Bartok, Thomas ReinerDirector: Mario Bava
Cinematographer: Mario Bava
Writer: Mario Bava
Cinematographer: Ubaldo Terzano
Producer: Alfredo Mirabile
Producer: Massimo Patrizi
Writer: Giuseppe Barilla
Writer: Marcello Fondato
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed); French (Dubbed); Italian (Dubbed)
Format: Collector's Edition, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-08
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Vci Video
Movie Reviews of Blood & Black Lace
Movie Review: Great Movie - Bad Video Transfer
Summary: 5 Stars
If you really want to know why Mario Bava was a genius, you need to view this film. No other director in 1963 could have made this movie. It is a symphony of color, beauty and violence. Bava's use of color in this film was quickly copied by younger directors, most notably Dario Argento in Suspiria and Inferno.
The violence in this movie is shocking - and not just by 1963 standards. Filmed beautifully, of course!
Unfortunately the transfer for this two-disc version is not equal to the movie. Most critics consider the transfer in the earlier, single disc, release to be superior in terms of color balance and image sharpness. I agree - I own both and have compared them. The original release is now out of print, but still available from private sellers on Amazon.
This still-in-print two-disc release does have the advantage of an extended commentary by Tim Lucas, the editor of Video Watchdog. Tim is a dedicated and extremely knowledgeable Bava critic, and his commentary in this version is, quite simply, wonderful.
My solution: buy both versions!
Summary of Blood & Black Lace
An unscrupulous business operating under the guise of a top fashion house with exotic models running sexual favors, cocaine dealings and blackmail, becomes a murder scene-after someone is pushed to the edge. The saga begins when a beautiful model is brutally murdered, and her boyfriend, a known addict supplying her drugs, is suspected of the crime.but is he guilty or is someone waiting in the shadows setting him up? Languages: English, French & Italian. Subtitles:English & Spanish. DVD extras: Motion menus, Photo Gallery, Biographies, Commentary by Tim Lucas (Editor of the Video Watchdog), Interview with Mary Dawne Arden, Interview with Cameron Mitchell by David Del Valle, Bonus Music Tracks by composer Carlo Rustichelli, Original Theatrical Trailer, Dolby Digital 5.1, DVD-9/DVD-5.Though the original Italian title translates to "Six Women for an Assassin," the American title, Blood and Black Lace, is far more evocative of the psychosexual nature of this elegant slasher picture. The thin plot concerns a respected Italian fashion house, a murdered model, cocaine, and a tell-all diary that seems to implicate just about everyone connected with the house of style. The disappearance of the diary initiates a wholesale slaughter of the remaining models. Mario Bava's stylish exercise in mayhem lovingly delivers every elaborate killing with dreamy assurance. As the stalker, a faceless figure wrapped up in a trench coat, makes a move for his next gorgeous victim, Bava's prowling camera snakes through sets, rushes down hallways, and generally takes off like a low-budget Hitchcock flick on speed. By contrast, Bava runs through the police investigations with a perfunctory air--the lifeless scenes, which aren't helped by the flat English dubbing, feel like he's marking time between the murders--and when the identity of the black-clad killer is revealed it almost seems beside the point. As the narrative melts into a near abstract display of choreography and color (with an often troubling misogynist edge), exposition and psychological explanations seem oddly out of place in this elaborate dance of death. As a traditional thriller it lacks any genuine thrill, but as a piece of cinematic spectacle it has moments of dreamy, disconnected beauty. --Sean Axmaker
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