Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Bezenby With the Girl Who Knew Too Much, Mario Bava gave us what I guess was the first giallo, only with a few pieces missing from the template, but with Blood and Black Lace he gives us the giallo as a fully formed product with every single aspect intact. Except naked boobs and fannies.You've got the attractive fashion model/victims, the loud, campy sets with over-use of primary colours, obvious red herrings, a masked, gloved, and be-hatted killer who stalks his victims, over the top violence, many plot twists, crappy police investigation, sexualised violence, kitsch, and other adjectives, like garish! It's all here, and it's all directed by Mario Bava! And he gets bored with the clichés about an hour and ten minutes in and turns the film on its head! We get a wonderful credits sequence to this film too, what with all the key players being introduced while posing with some loudly coloured dummies (and being equated to said dummies). We also get a lot of Bava's patented 'messing with the audiences head' which makes his films so enjoyable to enjoy, in an enjoyably enjoyable way.Three paragraphs and no plot? That's a good sign. Basically, some girls at a bitchy Roman fashion house are being carved up by a masked killer, and the police have no clue why. There are plenty of suspects, however, from jealous boyfriends to blackmailers to etc. Interestingly the first girl who was killed had a diary and immediately half the cast want to get their hands on it.Bava here dispenses mostly with the police and concentrates on the murder sequences, and it's here I guess where the film truly takes off and where I'm guessing Argento, Lenzi, and Martino had their notebooks out. Some are truly brutal here, and although he doesn't resort to nudity, most of these girls are offed in a kind of sexual fashion.So, a standard giallo would have a bunch of suspects and then the killer unmasked, but, this early in the genre Bava doesn't even bother with that and unmasks the killer without ceremony about an hour in, but even then he's messing with us, because the killer was in jail when another murder happened! Ah...this is what makes the best of these films.Only problem is that the killer is played by an actor with such a distinctive face (and nose) you'll peg them almost right away, but don't let that put you off, this is another great film from Mario Bava, and is easily 85 million times better than Season 7 of the Walking Dead, which my wife made me sit through instead of watching this

acidburn-10 I don't know why it took me so long to see this little gem, considering that firstly it was made by one of my favourite Italian directors Mario Bava and that it's considered one of the most important Giallo films and now that it has been released on Arrow films with a restored print, instead of trying to view with a not so great picture quality, and after viewing it I was pleasantly surprised by firstly at how beautiful it looked in its rich vivid colours and considering it was made in 1963, it doesn't look dated at all and very stylish.The storyline here is that on one stormy night a young model is murdered outside a lavish fashion house where she works with a group of other young models and this sparks a chain of events when her diary goes missing which reveals the sordid details of what's going on with the people who work there and not long after more women start to get murdered.This movie is definitely entertaining and relies heavily on its camera-work, set designs, artwork and lighting, all of which creates the perfect atmosphere. I have no complaints with this, only that I would say that the first half of the movie where the majority of the murders takes place is definitely stronger than the second half, which does have a neat little twist at the end which most Giallo's have and given that this movie was the one that started that started that trend, so that was pretty neat and makes this one of the strongest and influence shall of the genre.With a strong cast including Cameron Mitchell and Eva Bartok, 'Blood And Black Lace' is a very beautiful and violent movie where Bava really excels himself as a director and showing off his unique visual style on what otherwise would be a sub-standard script, and okay this may not be the best or most riveting of the genre, but it is very decent and it does pull you into this manic world that Bava has created within this universe.

Mr_Ectoplasma "Blood and Black Lace" focuses on a fashion house who becomes targeted by a sinister killer; each murder appears to be connected to a diary that belonged to the killer's first victim.In true Bava fashion (no pun intended), "Blood and Black Lace" is a visually luscious film that has been branded as the "first giallo," and it probably was. The setup of the film is fantastic and precedes the slasher prototype by at least a decade; an expansive fashion house full of laced mannequins, exquisite architecture, shadowy corners, and gorgeous supermodels—what better setting for a horror film? Bava, the auteur he was, takes full advantage of the silk-laden mannequins, velvet curtains, and glamorous interiors, which are bathed in shadows and illuminated in bright colors; at some points, the film has an even "Suspiria"-esque visual flair, but predates Argento's film by a good thirteen years. Narratively, the film has a fairly straightforward, if not flimsy script, which, though fairly routine by today's standards, would have been much more full of surprises in 1964. The performances in the film are decent, and Cameron Mitchell makes an appearance as a potentially shady salon owner, and complements the film nicely. While it is not a particularly gory film, Bava does a phenomenal job with the models' death scenes, crafting what may be among the most beautiful murders in film history.Overall, "Blood and Black Lace" is a rightfully sung genre classic; in my opinion, it is one of Mario Bava's greatest achievements, chock full of luscious supermodels, a sprawling mansion, and a masked killer with a vendetta. The film operates as both a slasher and a murder mystery in equal measure, and engages on both platforms. The visual flair is the centerpiece holding it all together of course, in true Bava tradition.

renezelwe The film slaughter of the early 1980s has fortunately now come down to 3 films: Blood And Black Lace, Fistful Of Dollars, and Murder By Decree, and we should all work together to make them available in their longest action versions. If you are a horror virgin Blood And Black Lace is about a masked serial killer operating in Rome, and menacing a fashion house in particular. The body count is around 8, and one victim features a scene where her badly marked face is shown to the camera and then put back inside a stove. This is missing from the Arrow Blu-ray print, and before you challenge me on this, the Tim Lucas Arrow commentary concurs with me at least in part. I have not seen the longest action version of BABL since 1966 and I do not own a copy of it. BABL was the first colour Giallo, and in its original form it was the first full-on effects and make-up horror film. Without its punchline scene being complete it will not be strong enough to hold on to its reputation. It seems to me that when it comes to the crunch real horror fans shrink away and leave it to individuals in the film industry and the BBFC to crush critical reviews of censored versions.