Cinema
Blood and Black Lace
6 donne per l'assassino
Mario Bava · 1964
Synopsis
Rome. In a high-fashion house, a model, Isabella, is murdered by an unknown figure dressed in black, gloved and masked. The young woman kept a diary in which she recorded the staff's secrets, and this notebook becomes the object of a series of murders, the killer seeking to recover it.
Context
The screenplay is by Marcello Fondato, Giuseppe Barillà and Mario Bava, the photography by Ubaldo Terzano, the music by Carlo Rustichelli. An Italian, French and German coproduction, the film was shot in six weeks, from November 1963 to January 1964, under the working title L'atelier della morte. Cameron Mitchell and Eva Bartok play the leading roles. It was released in Rome on 14 March 1964.
Who it is for
A little under an hour and a half, in Italian. A brightly coloured giallo, whose murders are shown without flinching.
Prizes and reception
A modest success in Italy, the film is now regarded as foundational to the giallo and influenced Dario Argento, Martin Scorsese and Pedro Almodóvar.
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