Blood and Black Lace is a 1964 Italian horror film directed by Mario Bava. 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... Mario Bava (July 31, 1914-April 27, 1980) was an Italian director and cinematographer who is remembered as one of the greatest names of the golden age of Italian horror movies. ...
Isabella (played by Francesca Ungaro), a young model is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a boarding house run by Max Marian (played by Cameron Mitchell)and his lover Countess Cristiana Como (played by Eva Bartok). 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 models in and around the house to find the diary.
The killer dressed in all black - a trenchcoat, fedora and those lethal black gloves - and a white faceless masks begins preying on all the female models who eventually grasp the fatal diary one after another. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), owned by Amazon. ...
The cocaine is supplied by one of the model's boyfriends, a sleazy antique dealer, while another model is flmailing the owners to get money for an abortion for another model, whose pregnancy threatens her career.
BLOOD AND BLACKLACE was not the first Italian "giallo"--a violent thriller with strong sexual overtones, but it was the most graphic and color intensive of its era.
Another model has her face punctured by a medieval spiked glove, referencing the opening scene in BLACK SUNDAY and anticipating the bloody facial of Luciano Pigozzi in the director's later BARON BLOOD.
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