Blood and Black Lace (1964) Movie Overview

Blood and Black Lace (Italian: Sei donne per l’assassino) is a 1964 Italian horror thriller film directed by Mario Bava. Bava cowrote the screenplay with Giusseppe Barilla and Marcello Fondato. The film stars Cameron Mitchell and Eva Bartok. The story concerns the stalking and brutal murders of various scantily-clad fashion models, committed by a masked killer in a desperate attempt to obtain a scandal-revealing diary. The film is generally considered one of the earliest and most influential of all giallos, and served as a stylistic template for the “body count” slasher films of the 1980’s. Tim Lucas has noted that the film has “gone on to inspire legions of contemporary filmmakers, from Dario Argento to Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino.” In 2004, one of its sequences was voted #85 among the “100 Scariest Movie Moments” by the Bravo Channel. Isabella (Francesca Ungaro), one of many beautiful models employed at a fashion house, is walking through the grounds that lead to the establishment one night when she is attacked and violently killed by an assailant wearing a white featureless mask. Police Inspector Sylvester (Thomas Reiner) is assigned to investigate the murder and… Source

• Blood and Black Lace Movie Details
• Director: Mario Bava
• Tagline: The greatest shocks ever filmed
• Country: Italy , France , Monaco
• Run Time: 88 min | USA:84 min
• Genre: Horror , Mystery , Thriller

• Cast Overview
• Cameron Mitchell as Max Marian
• Eva Bartok as Contessa Cristina Como
• Thomas Reiner as Inspector Silvester
• Ariana Gorini as Nicole
• Dante DiPaolo as Frank Sacalo
• Mary Arden as Peggy Peyton

Blood and Black Lace Movie Review from New York Times

Director Mario Bava’s second thriller revolves around a fashion salon owned by wealthy Cristina (Eva Bartok) and her greedy lover Max (Cameron Mitchell). The salon is a front for cocaine-trafficking and blackmail, so when model Isabella (Lea Kruger) is viciously strangled, leaving a detailed diary behind, many of the people connected with the salon… Source

Blood and Black Lace Movie Details from Imdb

Isabella, a young model is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a boarding house run by Max Morlacchi and his lover Countess Cristiana Como. When Isabella’s boyfriend is suspected of the killing, her diary, which apparently has some incriminating evidence linking her to the killer, dissapears, the masked killer begins killing off all the model… Source

Blood and Black Lace (1964) from YouTube