LARA WENDEL IS MIMSY FARMER 'PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FxDUyM3zHgGSLlFWkl3-IabMZdOLRWSewBrLrdkVKtUsdJJHLoZPBrGUBq1Y2lPS7O8NHassOD3CK7kXaX5DquJ7n-yZLIMHsCuijlgyKKARAZzGS5AHXmVhwCbBqyARVZ-EYvoeqsTpWYTdDyq7gbrw8MzYPUW0kaqO-j-uYZ20qgq2BJr7rIYQSvSg/s1696/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%207.44.22%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="1696" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FxDUyM3zHgGSLlFWkl3-IabMZdOLRWSewBrLrdkVKtUsdJJHLoZPBrGUBq1Y2lPS7O8NHassOD3CK7kXaX5DquJ7n-yZLIMHsCuijlgyKKARAZzGS5AHXmVhwCbBqyARVZ-EYvoeqsTpWYTdDyq7gbrw8MzYPUW0kaqO-j-uYZ20qgq2BJr7rIYQSvSg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%207.44.22%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>LARA WENDEL in THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK Year: 1974 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ultimately paying third-act homage to ROSEMARY'S BABY while plot-proceeding John Cassavetes's OPENING NIGHT... an indie-drama version of an Italian Giallo where Gena Rowlands hallucinates a beautiful young girl... Italian auteur Francesco Barilli's THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK has long-haired blonde American ingenue turned European short-cropped blonde starlet Mimsy Farmer seeing her dead mother, guided around by her younger self in scream-queen Lara Wendel...<br><br>Which all ends up inspiring another future horror flick, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME... not to be spoiled since Farmer's "Industrial Scientist" character Silvia Hacherman spends most of the time like a deer-in-headlights, perfect for an actress possessing a unique kind of powerfully magnetic vulnerability: able to speak volumes without saying very much, and she's rarely been more beautiful  — and she's always really beautiful...  </p><p><span></span></p>

exploitation, francesco barilli, giallo, horror, italian, lara wendel, maurizio bonuglia, mimsy farmer, nike arrighi, seventies, thriller

LARA WENDEL IS MIMSY FARMER 'PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK'

LARA WENDEL in THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK Year: 1974 Rating: **** Ultimately paying third-act homage to ROSEMARY'S BABY while plot...

MIMSY FARMER WITH BARRY PRIMUS INVESTIGATING 'AUTOPSY'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0d3IyHvxMxeUN-C40IVxjlUUAnhBAqOxlnftnlxGTf_T3Oxj4yuVlchLYhpCFq8eCtrzGTFgFkGlBYf41EMYcRhzHwK-veMi35Rm8vqmS2Ksku6h_dCb8pmsrzoW8tRmG9XgNz5jkqiRMf9Tfl7yh1xugXhCTBMhJ-ON9ySk0OrYRVxa-p5K_YUPas74/s1600/image1786080059.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0d3IyHvxMxeUN-C40IVxjlUUAnhBAqOxlnftnlxGTf_T3Oxj4yuVlchLYhpCFq8eCtrzGTFgFkGlBYf41EMYcRhzHwK-veMi35Rm8vqmS2Ksku6h_dCb8pmsrzoW8tRmG9XgNz5jkqiRMf9Tfl7yh1xugXhCTBMhJ-ON9ySk0OrYRVxa-p5K_YUPas74/s1600/image1786080059.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in AUTOPSY Year: 1975 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Unlucky <i>First Gir</i>l (to die)( Gaby Wagner asks Mimsy Farmer if she's American, to which Mimsy's character... a pathology doctor working in a hospital's morgue... answers that she's "half American"...<br><br>Which sums up the blonde starlet's career, starting out as guests on mainstream stateside television (from MY THREE SONS to THE FBI) to co-starring in low-budget counter-culture speeding-car flicks (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/wild-racers.html">THE WILD RACERS</a> to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/hotRods.html">HOT RODS TO HELL</a> to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/stripmimsy.html">RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP</a>)... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

angela goodwin, barry primus, gaby wagner, giallo, horror, italian, mimsy farmer, neo noir, ray lovelock, seventies, thriller

MIMSY FARMER WITH BARRY PRIMUS INVESTIGATING 'AUTOPSY'

Mimsy Farmer in AUTOPSY Year: 1975 Rating: *** Unlucky First Gir l (to die)( Gaby Wagner asks Mimsy Farmer if she's American, to which M...

MIMSY FARMER KILLS DARIO ARGENTO'S 'FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiSlhcIJkzvGhpYdVHbfDfLxicVqUBsdtZYuy_b4dodxg0YVGKk4fraoed2DW5fTVT1IwaaZKH5Hj1OuIr_xLAt3ZEerGGS_rvmgoc4h4bfv48-e1q4_IfOqzD-yYmYYtrV8cCb9bFzzDBIq-0Ushn9MW7yxd3N00h_pij3pkfpqB-UVOwwu9M-1VTWrAn/s1600/image1786217518.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiSlhcIJkzvGhpYdVHbfDfLxicVqUBsdtZYuy_b4dodxg0YVGKk4fraoed2DW5fTVT1IwaaZKH5Hj1OuIr_xLAt3ZEerGGS_rvmgoc4h4bfv48-e1q4_IfOqzD-yYmYYtrV8cCb9bFzzDBIq-0Ushn9MW7yxd3N00h_pij3pkfpqB-UVOwwu9M-1VTWrAn/s1600/image1786217518.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>American actress Mimsy Farmer really went native after moving to France and starring in European horror flicks after merely co-starring in counter-culture melodramas (like HOT RODS TO HELL) stateside... <br><br>That is, in several of the Euro-thrillers, she would have an accent, speaking a kind of broken English, like it's not her original language, sometimes even choosing each word... very... carefully...</p><p><span></span></p>

body count, dario argento, exploitation, francine racette, giallo, horror, jean-pierre marielle, michael brandon, mimsy farmer, mystery, seventies

MIMSY FARMER KILLS DARIO ARGENTO'S 'FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET'

Mimsy Farmer in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 American actress Mimsy Farmer really went native after moving to France ...

MARIO BAVA'S GROUNDBREAKING SLASHER FLICK 'A BAY OF BLOOD'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZU6-RynkSyFhrEM_a0zKhneqExDUljl6yL-oSJMO2aP4ZDXVvEFxiaxXMz_caxAuefeNSSkakBREhwK1G6nyYGkzqu6R1F6JnfJXSq_OdvkSs3_Uhau5r99F5VgKnbCz9tTOIcCEtORrQbIQo5q60EtYGc1mBx7XCZVBz2dBtHp-Cv9oR2K7-P1SBSeOt/s1678/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.00.38%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="1678" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZU6-RynkSyFhrEM_a0zKhneqExDUljl6yL-oSJMO2aP4ZDXVvEFxiaxXMz_caxAuefeNSSkakBREhwK1G6nyYGkzqu6R1F6JnfJXSq_OdvkSs3_Uhau5r99F5VgKnbCz9tTOIcCEtORrQbIQo5q60EtYGc1mBx7XCZVBz2dBtHp-Cv9oR2K7-P1SBSeOt/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.00.38%20AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Brigitte Skay in A BAY OF BLOOD Year: 1971 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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...<br /><br />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...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-uMiXA-QMiaLoPC3mHYwrQ0ottYlZ1HhaTu06tghzSwHlKFzu3i6RjbXm1zNT6mBAC7uZZ-HluW45_5qBdHOLRit_qGRnXf4BDoIHNk9TA1BvVPI6UIYO0Qj8UhYnXDxq3N4F-y-CwAUtGjKd3SDvKb8MioDpjd36EWDTYbblvT22Qc1OHxK279vXM9Mb/s2380/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.04.29%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1114" data-original-width="2380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-uMiXA-QMiaLoPC3mHYwrQ0ottYlZ1HhaTu06tghzSwHlKFzu3i6RjbXm1zNT6mBAC7uZZ-HluW45_5qBdHOLRit_qGRnXf4BDoIHNk9TA1BvVPI6UIYO0Qj8UhYnXDxq3N4F-y-CwAUtGjKd3SDvKb8MioDpjd36EWDTYbblvT22Qc1OHxK279vXM9Mb/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.04.29%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Friday the 13th scene originally in Mario Bava's A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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...<br /></p><p></p><p></p><p>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...</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIphc0FxNk_4j5_RXXnj3U-RhxcuIuFOTWg4SrW3kNdEJYiuE9VKJcnwBeeCcQHW2lh7p9s9A0eWP7Baypkr-5OO8Mz9U9i3wHq9U-C7DYxHj7tSq09NKgFDgKVd6W-iXVG_Ky6MKaY8jWgci5eo1p98xMPESssV1airYIi_ixLP9PHuD59N0QbbKOJJA7/s1598/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.03.25%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIphc0FxNk_4j5_RXXnj3U-RhxcuIuFOTWg4SrW3kNdEJYiuE9VKJcnwBeeCcQHW2lh7p9s9A0eWP7Baypkr-5OO8Mz9U9i3wHq9U-C7DYxHj7tSq09NKgFDgKVd6W-iXVG_Ky6MKaY8jWgci5eo1p98xMPESssV1airYIi_ixLP9PHuD59N0QbbKOJJA7/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.03.25%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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...<br /><br />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 <i>final girl</i> status...</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TCKgrVjGXtwHwb51UrI687_SSvr2V5T8Iz5NOLR-dliowE1ZX-ct9UoytmwAUKhQxUQHKsc54VxRvAGCVpTS_T3tfzBoxnFYuBlDHE2RwCiKNjhOT47x2xsBLdJx-sxCRbgELHRTyL7tlW0D_-QcTBl7QfiDBBj-ZW6UwDnCqiWjsIQr9Y3F2vBjoECH/s1582/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.06.57%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="1582" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TCKgrVjGXtwHwb51UrI687_SSvr2V5T8Iz5NOLR-dliowE1ZX-ct9UoytmwAUKhQxUQHKsc54VxRvAGCVpTS_T3tfzBoxnFYuBlDHE2RwCiKNjhOT47x2xsBLdJx-sxCRbgELHRTyL7tlW0D_-QcTBl7QfiDBBj-ZW6UwDnCqiWjsIQr9Y3F2vBjoECH/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.06.57%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mario Bava's A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>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... <br /><br />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. <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjduncinKgseBs-DM-0TKxgqCgJsACdwMV6lkgnl9YERCiWZGTCIXrrTtSo3i5kl1Umdwr-152NjyXO6nNdkSiq2WQU7SGR5wgUqn3zJCrf4GMqhyphenhyphenk3B25cjgXDCSbkwUXQNM6nPSgvz5JufKckP6r_ZFoLuFVQ6mkm1Up1Vz3f8fcguWgs6YznvpQ6NH1w/s1590/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.07.43%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjduncinKgseBs-DM-0TKxgqCgJsACdwMV6lkgnl9YERCiWZGTCIXrrTtSo3i5kl1Umdwr-152NjyXO6nNdkSiq2WQU7SGR5wgUqn3zJCrf4GMqhyphenhyphenk3B25cjgXDCSbkwUXQNM6nPSgvz5JufKckP6r_ZFoLuFVQ6mkm1Up1Vz3f8fcguWgs6YznvpQ6NH1w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.07.43%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Brigitte Skay in A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_oGfoizFEPO_-G3ZPMaxO2soMhU3mLM-HPKNDipIpKA80rJ_CfAlBO5hGB2goq2vn8ikhyphenhyphenHFxAla2TMb-W9tQg4hhmZf6yen2UxkMZWJ5sS1P0L47FOg45tRKgVmNSF4bpv0aiia1f2zbFMzOR5Lq58optZ8mfBTV57VUeL4t0RbfG5Ji-rQYqIi70Q9h/s1586/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.07.58%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="1586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_oGfoizFEPO_-G3ZPMaxO2soMhU3mLM-HPKNDipIpKA80rJ_CfAlBO5hGB2goq2vn8ikhyphenhyphenHFxAla2TMb-W9tQg4hhmZf6yen2UxkMZWJ5sS1P0L47FOg45tRKgVmNSF4bpv0aiia1f2zbFMzOR5Lq58optZ8mfBTV57VUeL4t0RbfG5Ji-rQYqIi70Q9h/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.07.58%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04htoDklvKRtyFjx7B_40nZuPhoC2LE6W4byvY_tiapbRH_VBmLHI4IcpqFrItpuVz74JAMOyiqDtV4U6mgG-kvIfqf_X_2c3f44g3-xfFSUs4AMQah1CfKFr-w6dlJZvt22SymVZ8h6djODenp2t5v3_iOOtKkMphQzMqxQOMGzB9qmoTTdtHVVGaUUr/s1574/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.06%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="1574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04htoDklvKRtyFjx7B_40nZuPhoC2LE6W4byvY_tiapbRH_VBmLHI4IcpqFrItpuVz74JAMOyiqDtV4U6mgG-kvIfqf_X_2c3f44g3-xfFSUs4AMQah1CfKFr-w6dlJZvt22SymVZ8h6djODenp2t5v3_iOOtKkMphQzMqxQOMGzB9qmoTTdtHVVGaUUr/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.06%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Laura Betti in A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAF5wEenUf9gf5Hz0dBPErzyKLSuBoQW7CkGYCG6FVBB3JVO8sgcQy7_NW7EIOAR84VdwhC-8rkltUae1GDOwYPvJv5j_rjMzaobYyscCSGvg_apKofZtm2O9HUJaHdL-quBKztTk2AMLFYeIM6gFZBGQ9mtU6IPRyV4eZj01hp2UmyIzFLxq2mG4ZNzcA/s1526/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.19%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="1526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAF5wEenUf9gf5Hz0dBPErzyKLSuBoQW7CkGYCG6FVBB3JVO8sgcQy7_NW7EIOAR84VdwhC-8rkltUae1GDOwYPvJv5j_rjMzaobYyscCSGvg_apKofZtm2O9HUJaHdL-quBKztTk2AMLFYeIM6gFZBGQ9mtU6IPRyV4eZj01hp2UmyIzFLxq2mG4ZNzcA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.19%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anna Maria Rosati in A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZuH3Oeq17YJ4dz0lZrHRmMwgQ2LWolC6i55mQN4y-0f9uwrlh-FLfzAWtNBug_DnnMgYoQOUDU4ORqsD23ErNP3nAGHBfyiHAln99E-FkSH1XVIZaVITgJ80EnqubBl_oT5m1pY1UGG2LGmLP0DGhdHt0IkAKdDtqt0BV4ulysSKqQL3i6p67boRqiTgQ/s1558/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.36%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZuH3Oeq17YJ4dz0lZrHRmMwgQ2LWolC6i55mQN4y-0f9uwrlh-FLfzAWtNBug_DnnMgYoQOUDU4ORqsD23ErNP3nAGHBfyiHAln99E-FkSH1XVIZaVITgJ80EnqubBl_oT5m1pY1UGG2LGmLP0DGhdHt0IkAKdDtqt0BV4ulysSKqQL3i6p67boRqiTgQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.36%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anna Maria Rosati in A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGxnOYCMAGkR5WHC0g914aj6SMEy0ATw1pDj-KHo1CxRRbRYZ3bQNEjkf2sOWTw4S0Y805s4489SFjAT1nacX6HQfvd4lfiegGitgWr5_8mzuqMtBs21BLbeZIUd4STgaqFMCW2LJ4Si4T7LSw3wJXi9Opnv6ErDaML_AUi_eXpqsbIAgHDQn99qPPpcjt/s1570/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.50%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="818" data-original-width="1570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGxnOYCMAGkR5WHC0g914aj6SMEy0ATw1pDj-KHo1CxRRbRYZ3bQNEjkf2sOWTw4S0Y805s4489SFjAT1nacX6HQfvd4lfiegGitgWr5_8mzuqMtBs21BLbeZIUd4STgaqFMCW2LJ4Si4T7LSw3wJXi9Opnv6ErDaML_AUi_eXpqsbIAgHDQn99qPPpcjt/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.08.50%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Brigitte Skay in A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ2Ct0W8LkzczRwBstFtAeSHjPIzioztCmgFdvrCYhnz4EIF8GwRG45cmDUahur3yskeVVFY05lb1nj216OuXzz4FTyiXiU_rmHzjZGvNFowmZDe1_wBoepf-aKA1gEQtlugtVG5qMQghsx4UixVj9IreX1txJ18D8knoInUnUHKLM0gmYssw9fN5J_8TN/s1584/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.02%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ2Ct0W8LkzczRwBstFtAeSHjPIzioztCmgFdvrCYhnz4EIF8GwRG45cmDUahur3yskeVVFY05lb1nj216OuXzz4FTyiXiU_rmHzjZGvNFowmZDe1_wBoepf-aKA1gEQtlugtVG5qMQghsx4UixVj9IreX1txJ18D8knoInUnUHKLM0gmYssw9fN5J_8TN/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.02%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD with Leopoldo Trieste</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg85yHj_0s7v7Vve3iYEKjdktndAafFdKhdSiKmtlUZi01Ap3ZVtkibaQ6qJmxt117lK7ev_g6npdCpTqFeStcPkTFmWR9UwtAMTrpaeJD5jULFQDEq9jMFXMmytz1RENFNRhMjO4ChN36oM5p-f8vYy4DW550zKcSRcfUCCkPWPFJ4D524wZEgogEiJH_P/s1484/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.11%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg85yHj_0s7v7Vve3iYEKjdktndAafFdKhdSiKmtlUZi01Ap3ZVtkibaQ6qJmxt117lK7ev_g6npdCpTqFeStcPkTFmWR9UwtAMTrpaeJD5jULFQDEq9jMFXMmytz1RENFNRhMjO4ChN36oM5p-f8vYy4DW550zKcSRcfUCCkPWPFJ4D524wZEgogEiJH_P/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.11%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlkdKRNBPFnvkdlC77ejwHTzVxj02gEKH6d9fZv57nObl-THU4yY0IoH6mMEcxtzxzSZbTHyfvu3FFCJjV1x_eJXV2QbCkI7HMfcNapj4IpSk5tQFgJVwTyxJ38ngN0TqI0ARzqoU87rgEOTKgHKNM4EknhVmRouepYj8MPpWzOdy8npb9Yuh_qZwpyP4O/s1580/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.20%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlkdKRNBPFnvkdlC77ejwHTzVxj02gEKH6d9fZv57nObl-THU4yY0IoH6mMEcxtzxzSZbTHyfvu3FFCJjV1x_eJXV2QbCkI7HMfcNapj4IpSk5tQFgJVwTyxJ38ngN0TqI0ARzqoU87rgEOTKgHKNM4EknhVmRouepYj8MPpWzOdy8npb9Yuh_qZwpyP4O/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.20%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0da7sSuhw2naVSyqsP9Qq72dowYjJCvo1VNn7kmsN-vC5De3X5InGzNETukQv4DOZXeW1pNYe8RHzwOCfVDjR6mH2X6MVbPuciM-vjA-h2ROQBQkCitZ5IXPpMGZHIXDj4OxGy2pPNMG31_vcj3Vq5FyBMSO8hNIuFs3iVHmcb50Vq3iSVe_8eqSrOoq7/s1562/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.27%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0da7sSuhw2naVSyqsP9Qq72dowYjJCvo1VNn7kmsN-vC5De3X5InGzNETukQv4DOZXeW1pNYe8RHzwOCfVDjR6mH2X6MVbPuciM-vjA-h2ROQBQkCitZ5IXPpMGZHIXDj4OxGy2pPNMG31_vcj3Vq5FyBMSO8hNIuFs3iVHmcb50Vq3iSVe_8eqSrOoq7/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-26%20at%201.13.27%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Claudine Auger in A BAY OF BLOOD</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br />

anna maria rosati, body count, brigitte skay, claudine auger, giallo, horror, isa miranda, italian, laura betti, leopoldo trieste, luigi pistilli, mario bava, mystery, seventies, slasher

MARIO BAVA'S GROUNDBREAKING SLASHER FLICK 'A BAY OF BLOOD'

Brigitte Skay in A BAY OF BLOOD Year: 1971 Rating: **** Italian director Mario Bava's A BAY OF BLOOD is groundbreaking in the slasher-ho...

BARBARA BOUCHET STARS IN 'THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMdmv_RwD2n3cUP_iOVdE8gOP6iBubdzg9Bb91H60CdmI9SRoU7jdIvSiPRlL8UyyNycEP5Xm5HRCkladVa5Zm3dQnxIBP8SJRmolv-tXcl6kPvrBC7QhF4KuDmpaRpOKZXNa4HpaU_E6KOQ35aSJFM8-W8NaQ3aklHQh8C76-yK5ztmCOTvu4FTufno_/s1274/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-27%20at%2010.19.35%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeMdmv_RwD2n3cUP_iOVdE8gOP6iBubdzg9Bb91H60CdmI9SRoU7jdIvSiPRlL8UyyNycEP5Xm5HRCkladVa5Zm3dQnxIBP8SJRmolv-tXcl6kPvrBC7QhF4KuDmpaRpOKZXNa4HpaU_E6KOQ35aSJFM8-W8NaQ3aklHQh8C76-yK5ztmCOTvu4FTufno_/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-03-27%20at%2010.19.35%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES Year: 1972 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Italian giallo director Emilio Miraglia created the gothic thriller THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES where the title anticipates the body-count horror aspect of sporadic victims surrounded by insanely gorgeous Barbara Bouchet as troubled rich girl Kitty Wildenbrück...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>She's the affable blonde of a bullying brunette sister only seen in the youthful prologue... traipsing around a castle while their passive father watches the bad daughter insanely shredding the good daughter's cherished doll... </p><span></span>

barbara bouchet, barbara magnolfi, body-count, emilio miraglia, giallo, horror, marina malfatti, marino mas, mirella d'angelo, pia giancaro, seventies, sybil danning

BARBARA BOUCHET STARS IN 'THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES'

Title: THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES Year: 1972 Rating: **** Italian giallo director Emilio Miraglia created the gothic thriller THE RED Q...

FLORINDA BOLKAN 'A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN' STANLEY BAKER

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhryZEwIbOIBinC_dQ2AOYZnQYr__s4KYWeDN6hzZJPGwVM0qPU4yS3wIjN-f-IYYuFTzNv07nBk35UAMX1QHdiblIB8mJX4D-erykx62dgCVBLBi_nzNaQ5bJ1-aOxiZ9S8DGWRZ3C_1SBEKixLGdfKguGVahHBEZEAtZxGhlkeoW_BeSWCUv5neuAIg/s1033/AVvXsEih9iA1hUI3E3jlni9F3mBHYJNmC8Evbmf-Dd81uKw3BbqUdD3g7T3c3B0EP4YiwTBkby6CpW_Bp3MOvtinANr2zh1NbzBYdeHOA6MvlOCNlsa_gLLR27M7qKbsH0IL_2gCfGS7mEraJIHj0wZtxfWm9yIsujY1ftB_aN1Arrooa5-vdizKA4wUivgQ6Q=s16000.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="1033" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhryZEwIbOIBinC_dQ2AOYZnQYr__s4KYWeDN6hzZJPGwVM0qPU4yS3wIjN-f-IYYuFTzNv07nBk35UAMX1QHdiblIB8mJX4D-erykx62dgCVBLBi_nzNaQ5bJ1-aOxiZ9S8DGWRZ3C_1SBEKixLGdfKguGVahHBEZEAtZxGhlkeoW_BeSWCUv5neuAIg/s16000/AVvXsEih9iA1hUI3E3jlni9F3mBHYJNmC8Evbmf-Dd81uKw3BbqUdD3g7T3c3B0EP4YiwTBkby6CpW_Bp3MOvtinANr2zh1NbzBYdeHOA6MvlOCNlsa_gLLR27M7qKbsH0IL_2gCfGS7mEraJIHj0wZtxfWm9yIsujY1ftB_aN1Arrooa5-vdizKA4wUivgQ6Q=s16000.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN Year: 1971 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Most <i>giallos</i>... offbeat Italian-made b-horror/thrillers.. look great with creative camera angles backed by crisp cinematography where blood is thicker and redder than ever... but the acting, even when filled with terrific actors, can often be lacking, perhaps because all the dialogue is so badly/noticeably dubbed... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But in the case of Lucio Fulci's A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN... where <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/stanley%20baker">Stanley Baker</a> plays the token snoopy cop... it's a whistle, <i>his </i>whistle, that awkwardly coincides with the Ennio Morricone score as if Baker's Inspector Corvin got the actual movie's soundtrack stuck in his head...</p><p><span></span></p>

anita strindberg, ely galleani, exploitation, florinda bolkan, giallo, horror, italian, mystery, seventies, stanley baker, thriller

FLORINDA BOLKAN 'A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN' STANLEY BAKER

Title: A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN Year: 1971 Rating: *** Most giallos ... offbeat Italian-made b-horror/thrillers.. look great with crea...