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Blood and Black Lace

1964 · 88 min

A stylish, lurid nightmare of masked violence and glamorous surfaces, where every shadow hides a threat and the camera itself feels complicit.

Tagline: A Fashion House of Models… Becomes a Terror House of Blood!
Overview: Isabella, a young model, is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a fashion house in Rome. When her diary, which details the house employees' many vices, disappears, the masked killer begins killing off all the models in and around the house to find it.

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
campystrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: crime
deception
greed
betrayal
obsession
Places: big city
workplace
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	4
Horror	7
Humour	1
Realism	5
Romance	2
Tension	8
Darkness	8
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: crime, horror, mystery
Directed by: Mario Bava
Written by: Giuseppe Barilla, Mario Bava, Marcello Fondato
Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner, Ariana Gorini, Dante DiPaolo, Mary Arden, Franco Ressel, Claude Dantes
Music: Carlo Rustichelli
Cinematography: Mario Bava, Ubaldo Terzano
Runtime: 88 min
Country: Germany, France, Italy
Languages: Italian

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