|
|
Post by dirtypillows on Oct 17, 2020 4:34:16 GMT
One of my all-time favorite movies by one of my favorite directors. I must have been 8 or 9 years old when I first saw this one. The atmosphere is off the charts and the color photography is hypnotizing. I wouldn't see another Bava film until 20 years later, and "Blood and Black Lace" has surpassed BS as my favorite Mario Bava film. But "Black Sabbath" is my second favorite. What I can't get over is how little some of my tastes have changed some forty years later. The section "A Drop of Water" is playing and the old lady is hobbling through that decadent old mansion with ceilings 40 feet tall and everything is doused in pink and purple and green and gold. How perfectly luscious. I think I saw William Castle's "Strait Jacket" that same summer of 1978 and between these two, my love for the genre was set!
|
|
|
|
Post by moviebuffbrad on Oct 17, 2020 4:37:25 GMT
I just rewatched Blood and Black Lace a few days ago. That Bava sure could frame an image.
Since you've been making these Friday the 13th threads lately, have you seen Bay of Blood? Obvious influence on the series, especially Part II.
|
|
|
|
Post by bravomailer on Oct 17, 2020 4:49:37 GMT
A very creepy trilogy. The corpse in A Drop Of Water is quite memorable.
|
|
|
|
Post by dirtypillows on Oct 17, 2020 4:51:51 GMT
I just rewatched Blood and Black Lace a few days ago. That Bava sure could frame an image. Since you've been making these Friday the 13th threads lately, have you seen Bay of Blood? Obvious influence on the series, especially Part II. Yes, I've seen "Bay of Blood". It was good. Quite violent. The death of the old lady in the wheelchair was the most striking death scene. Though the scene with the girl running through the woods who gets it with a scythe was very disturbing and frightening. And that ending. What a twist! I loooove "Blood and Black Lace". In addition to the direction and cinematography, the movie has a great lounge-music type score. Since you saw it so recently, who was your favorite of the girl models? I am partial to the blonde Mary Arden. She was sweet and so pretty. |
|
|
|
Post by dirtypillows on Oct 17, 2020 5:10:09 GMT
Okay, now it's up to the segment "The Telephone" (which I think is my favorite of the three). The lady's grotto apartment is kick ass.
|
|
