Blood and Black Lace (1964)
(Sei donne per l'assassino)
Country: IT/FR/GER
Technical: Technicolor 88m
Director: Mario Bava
Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner
Synopsis:
A fashion house seems to have as many perverts and drug addicts in its orbit as it boasts beautiful models. When one of the latter blackmails her employers, she sets in chain a series of events that bear all the hallmarks of a serial killer.
Review:
The Italian title more or less gives the game away from the off and, as if in some sado-masochistic porn movie, we watch enraptured as Bava mounts an imaginatively varied set piece for each of his glamorous victims. The faceless killer owes much to The Cat and the Canary, as does the motive, and pretty much all the pleasure to be had from this indulgent Grand Guignol comes from the Technicolor cinematography and the director's gleeful deployment of his baroque mise-en-scène, all red drapes, naked mannequins and statuary. None of the human behaviour, meanwhile, holds any resemblance to reality whatsoever.
(Sei donne per l'assassino)
Country: IT/FR/GER
Technical: Technicolor 88m
Director: Mario Bava
Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner
Synopsis:
A fashion house seems to have as many perverts and drug addicts in its orbit as it boasts beautiful models. When one of the latter blackmails her employers, she sets in chain a series of events that bear all the hallmarks of a serial killer.
Review:
The Italian title more or less gives the game away from the off and, as if in some sado-masochistic porn movie, we watch enraptured as Bava mounts an imaginatively varied set piece for each of his glamorous victims. The faceless killer owes much to The Cat and the Canary, as does the motive, and pretty much all the pleasure to be had from this indulgent Grand Guignol comes from the Technicolor cinematography and the director's gleeful deployment of his baroque mise-en-scène, all red drapes, naked mannequins and statuary. None of the human behaviour, meanwhile, holds any resemblance to reality whatsoever.
(Sei donne per l'assassino)
Country: IT/FR/GER
Technical: Technicolor 88m
Director: Mario Bava
Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner
Synopsis:
A fashion house seems to have as many perverts and drug addicts in its orbit as it boasts beautiful models. When one of the latter blackmails her employers, she sets in chain a series of events that bear all the hallmarks of a serial killer.
Review:
The Italian title more or less gives the game away from the off and, as if in some sado-masochistic porn movie, we watch enraptured as Bava mounts an imaginatively varied set piece for each of his glamorous victims. The faceless killer owes much to The Cat and the Canary, as does the motive, and pretty much all the pleasure to be had from this indulgent Grand Guignol comes from the Technicolor cinematography and the director's gleeful deployment of his baroque mise-en-scène, all red drapes, naked mannequins and statuary. None of the human behaviour, meanwhile, holds any resemblance to reality whatsoever.