Blood & Black Lace
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Movie Reviews of Blood & Black Lace
Movie Review: Vintage Bava!
Summary: 4 Stars
Italian Giallo's are an acquired taste. If you like one, most likely you'll like most of them if they're done correctly. Mario Bava was a pioneer when it came to Giallo's his original ideas and terrific use of light, colors and shadows would be seen for years in future Giallo's.
Bava's "Blood and Black Lace" is a prime example of what a Giallo should contain. Simple plot; An unknown, masked and crazed killer is running about, slashing beautiful super models. Of course with any Giallo, made in the 60's and 70's, you can expect bad acting and terrible dubbing but because of Bava's brilliance you don't care. His legendary tactics are portrayed brilliantly throughout the film. The amazing use of colors and shadows and, the key element to almost any Giallo, the black gloved hands of the killer.
Bava's influence would be seen in many more great Giallo films, including films by the phenomenal Dario Argento. Like Argento, Bava films are an acquired taste and if you're not a fan of the Giallo style films, more than likely you will not enjoy Bava's "Blood and Black Lace". However if you're an avid fan of the director or The Giallo films from the 60's and 70's you'll find this more than enjoyable. Recommended for fans of The Giallo style only.
Movie Review: Giallo masterpiece!.
Summary: 4 Stars
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!.Movie Review: Super-Duper-Models...
Summary: 4 Stars
BLOOD AND BLACK LACE is Mario Bava's fashionable giallo, complete w/ a gaggle of super-models, stylish murders, a "faceless" killer, and an outrageous, barely believable plot. What makes LACE a classic are it's colorful sets and innovative murder sequences. The usually histrionic, Cameron Mitchell (TOOLBOX MURDERS, THE DEMON) drifts through his role in (almost) subdued, non-Bill T. Shatner fashion. Amazing! Of course, this movie is also stocked wall-to-wall w/ beautiful women, which is always nice. A must for all Bava, giallo, or thriller fans...Movie Review: I hope Blue under Ground Re-releases this
Summary: 3 Stars
The sound is terrible you can barely hear the people talk but the music is really loud...so are the screams
The picture quality is ok but I would love to see this come out on blue underground's Blu-Ray
Movie Review: "2" STARS FOR THE "DVD" AND NOT THE MOVIE...
Summary: 2 Stars
I just purchased the 2 disc, special edition of this movie, and here's my problem(s):
First off, I don't speak Italian, so my only options are to watch the film with the English dub, or with the Italian dub with the English subtitles, but here's the problem; the English dub is out of sync with the film, sometimes being only slightly so, but other times being very noticeable and distracting (i.e. during loud sound effects, such as a chair being knocked over, or someone knocking loudly on a door).
And so my other option is the Italian bud with the English subs, but here's the problem with this, the English subs are missing during the scene where Peggy is reading the diary (about 30+ minutes into the movie).
Now, I had noticed missing subs during the first part of the film, but these where usually during background conversations, or occasionally a line would be missing from someone's speech, but could usually be figured out, and these where only slightly annoying, but the missing subs for the diary entry is inexcusable (and is also missing from the other subs as well) as this is an important bit of info to the plot of the story.
Also, when you set up the audio option, from the main menu, there's no problem, but I found that if you use the audio button on your DVD remote, the Italian option gives you the French soundtrack and the French gives you the Italian one. It's nothing serious, but it's an annoyance all the same.
So, does anyone else notice these problems, or did I just end up with a bum disc?