“Guaranteed! The 8 greatest shocks ever filmed!”
Mario Bava (A Bay Of Blood) established the basic thematic
template of the Italian giallo film with the Hitchcock-influenced The Girl
Who Knew Too Much in 1963 before laying out – in full-bodied colour – the
visual essence of what would become an iconic movement in Italian cinema.
Vibrant splashes of pink and blue, red and green, filled the off-kilter frame
as the camera glided through shadowy corridors. Bava, a former lighting
cameraman, also made full use of the frame in all dimensions, with action
frequently taking place throughout the entirety of his meticulous compositions
– side-to-side, top-to-bottom, front-to-back. Excess, violence, and sex are
common visual and narrative themes in gialli, and here in Blood and Black
Lace – essentially the second ever giallo film – Bava unleashed a beast...
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