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| Brigitte Skay in A BAY OF BLOOD Year: 1971 Rating: **** |
Italian director Mario Bava's A BAY OF BLOOD is groundbreaking in the slasher-horror genre in an aspect that's almost parenthetical since the young doomed teenagers aren't really part of the complicated plot of a group of people wanting to bank on the titular rural-bay location, opening with the brutal murder of an old rich lady that's an exploitation version of what would begin an otherwise mainstream Agatha Christie adaptation...
This element actually bookends all of BLOOD, wherein the coolest parts occur in-between... when the young hippies, holed-up in an empty mansion, get violently picked-off... including a couple having steamy sex before being shish-kabobed together for eternity...
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| Friday the 13th scene originally in Mario Bava's A BAY OF BLOOD |
If this sounds familiar, b-movie director Sean S. Cunningham's FRIDAY THE 13TH was deliberately inspired in the famous scene where Kevin Bacon and his girlfriend literally come-and-go simultaneously...
Yet you hardly get to know these young characters beyond cliche party-speak and their ultimate demise... particularly scene-stealing voluptuous blonde Brigitte Skay, the hatchet-necked ingenue providing the iconic poster image...
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| Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD |
Meanwhile, the two main/first-billed characters show up forty-minutes in... so THUNDERBALL beauty and GOOD BAD UGLY priest Claudine Auger and Luigi Pistilli, not the likely heroes they initially appear, are two cunning heirs sustaining the body-count bloodshed...
Unfortunately, the final act piles in way too much exposition involving three of the male leads, who look far too similar... as sophisticated-beauty Anna Maria Rosati is (like Auger) misleadingly primed for final girl status...
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| Mario Bava's A BAY OF BLOOD |
It's the earlier BAY OF BLOOD sequences that are the most fun, getting to know the eclectic characters including an offbeat medium with her scientific bug-inspecting husband (perhaps the reason for the original title ECOLOGY OF CRIME)... all inevitably butchered in creatively violent methods within a frantic inheritance-battling plot...
Making director/cinematographer Mario Bava's BAY OF BLOOD the most accidental horror-genre muse for 1970's/1980's teen-in-peril slasher flicks.. which is how directors like Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter and Sean S. Cunnigham wound up getting all of his credit.
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| Brigitte Skay in A BAY OF BLOOD |
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| Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD |
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| Laura Betti in A BAY OF BLOOD |
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| Anna Maria Rosati in A BAY OF BLOOD |
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| Anna Maria Rosati in A BAY OF BLOOD |
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| Brigitte Skay in A BAY OF BLOOD |
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| Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD with Leopoldo Trieste |
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| Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD |
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| Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD |
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| Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD |
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