addition to Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava certainly the most famous director in the field of fantastic Italian film. And even if he does, starting with sandals films and ending with Poliziotteschis with sleepwalking into various genres, moving stand out yet, especially his contributions to the horror and thriller genre particularly. With the 1964 turned Blood and Black Lace he also created one of the first and most influential representative of giallo cinema, Italian Krimispielart that, in the following years reached its zenith in popularity and is appreciated by many fans today.
In comparison to future directors Bava is on the display of sex and violence quite restrained and the plot is, fortunately, not too narrative fraught with twists and other gadgets. The novel describes a criminal history of the old school. A masked perpetrator brings the dozen employees of a fashion model and manufacturer and walks to the police at the beginning still in the dark about the motives behind those Offenses could be. We pass by several suspects in the vicinity of the perpetrators and even the head of the factory, Max (Cameron Mitchell), is interrogated. As the murderer must be from the environment of the factory, without further ado, all male staff temporarily detained, but the killings continue. Goal of the model appears to be a diary of a being and the secrets that were held there.
Blood and Black Lace proves to be a classic representative of the Whodunit, Mystery and takes the viewer on an atmospheric and exciting guessing who the murderer is behind the mask. Interesting about the film is especially Bava's staging. As in his other Works, you realize that he has a passion for colors, images and perspectives, and accordingly he experimented in his films again and again with those components. Typical of those artistic creativity are certainly scenes from Blood and Black Lace , filmed by a reflecting object or one relies on the use of strong backlight, which produces in combination with the setting in the garden of the factory very atmospheric images. Also interesting is the contrast between the colorful world of the 60s, during the fashion show, and the rest of production design, which is strongly reminiscent of Bava's gothic horror and the film works as anachronistic, sometimes surreal, can contribute. With these tricks, it creates Bava, the solid but not outstanding story, to give much more power and generate suspense. Blood and Black Lace, pardon you also quite weak and transparent end: 10/08.
0 comments:
Post a Comment