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 Bay Of Blood (DVD)
Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 1972 / Director: Mario Bava / Actors: Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli ... / DVD ... more  Bay Of Blood (DVD) ... released 22 July, 2002 at Film 2000 / Features of the DVD: PALNewest Review: ... piled on top of each other it comes to resemble such comedy body-count films as Clue or A Shot In The Dark. It's difficult to ... more ... work out what the film was trying to do; the absurdity prevents any sense of suspense or nastiness, and even potentially tense moments are a bit perfunctory. But on the other hand the gory bits are quite explicit, and it isn't really laugh-out-loud funny (except perhaps for the ending, which comes out of nowhere and is clearly a piss-take). None of the characters are remotely convincing, ranging from horny students to spiteful tarot readers, but their deaths are a slightly uneasy mix of cartoony and unpleasant.
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Bay Of Blood (DVD): 'They came to play, they stayed to die' (672 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 04.04.08 (Very useful, 73 readings)
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A review of just the film. This is an Italian film from 1971, directed by Mario Bava, the granddaddy of Italian horror. It's often described as the first of the stalk-and-slash bodycount films, in which a collection of characters in a remote location are killed in a variety of inventive ways. It's yet another video nasty, but it's highly enjoyable and certainly much better than a lot of 70s Italian horror. It's also gone by the name 'Twitch of the Death Nerve', which makes no sense but is probably more eye-catching than 'Bay of Blood'. A wealthy old lady is murdered, and it's made to look like suicide. She owned a picturesque bay, and various ...
The Original Slasher (931 words)
by spencer_hawken - written on 22.03.08 (Very useful, 86 readings)
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It may be nearly 40 years old but Bay Of Blood has a lasting impact on cinema; this Italian horror movie by director and some would say artist Mario Bava is said to be the movie that launched the term slasher in respect of horror. It is also said to be the inspiration for the Friday The 13th movies. Bay Of Blood is still very much swinging 60's while having a very 80's feel about it, and its a movie that menace floods into every scene. As Bay Of Blood opens an old woman is seen violently murdered, as we later discover the death is all about her money. The mystery of Bay Of Blood however revolves around who is going to get the money. Initially its ...
