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Posted on 8/31/04
Blood and Black Lace
NOTE: this review was originally posted on our movie forums. Click here to see it in its original context: Blood and Black Lace .
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Blood and Black Lace (1964)
Directed by Mario Bava
Stars: Cameron Mitchell. Eva Bartok
Blood And Black Lace: Decent offering from Mario Bava, and far better than Bay Of Blood (Twitch Of The Death Nerve).
It's a decent murder mystery revolving around the deaths of several models at a fashionable designer house. The script, while nothing special, is far more coherent than BOB, and the murders are all different, and in at least one case kind of difficult to watch.
But the real star here is Bava's deft direction. The camerawork is great, and some of the shots he sets up are wonderful, but the use of light and color...wow!
Black Sunday is my favorite of his, partly for the exquisite black and white photography, but here he also shows his mastery of color cinematography. One of the reasons I love some black and white movies is the use of light and shadow. In Blood And Black Lace, Bava also uses light and dark to great effect, along with some brilliant color imagery.
It's too bad that the story is pretty mundane, and the dialogue varies from the bland to the silly. Still, there are some good performances, and it's worth seeing for Bava's camerawork alone.
Suspiria notwithstanding, Argento has yet to show me that he has anything approaching the skill of Bava.
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