Blood and Black Lace
AroView: A landmark Italian horror film from director Mario Bava in which a masked killer runs amok in a Roman fashion house while trying to retrieve a scandal-revealing diary.
The director spices up the Agatha Christie murder-mystery template with orchestrated violent set pieces and a lurid eroticism enhanced by striking set design and a luminous colour palette. Regarded as a key film in the evolution of the thriller genre in cinema, influencing practitioners Brian De Palma, Pedro Almodovar and especially Dario Argento and the Italian thriller genre known as giallo.
Director
Language
Italian
Subtitles
English
Country
Italy
