- Director
- Mario Bava
- Year
- 1964
- Country
- France, Germany, Italy
- Runtime
- 86 min
Also released as
- Sei donne per l'assassino
- Six Women for the Murderer
- Fashion House of Death
- Hat nő és a gyilkos
- Zes Vrouwen voor de Moordenaar
- Verta ja mustaa pitsiä
- L'atelier de la mort
- Lustmördaren
- L'atelier de la peur
- Assasinat dans la Haute Couture
- 6 gynaikes gia to dolofono
- Aima sti mavri dantela
- Aima kai mavri dantella
- Moderu renzoku satsujin!
- Seis mujeres para el asesino
- Seis Mulheres para um Assassino
- Кровь и черные кружева
- Шесть женщин для убийцы
- Sis dones per a l'assassi
- Blutige Seide
- Krv i crna cipka
- Der Würger mit der Maske
- Blod och svarta spetsar
- Qan və Qara Krujeva
- Kan ve Siyah Dantel
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Blood and Black Lace
The giallo template, and still the best-looking film in the category.
Bava shoots a fashion house like a jewellery box someone has been sick in. Gel-lit reds and greens, mannequins in every frame, and a killer in a blank white stocking mask who is still frightening sixty years on.
The plot concerns a diary and is not worth your attention; Bava plainly agreed, since he stages six murders and barely bothers connecting them. What makes it the foundation text is the decision that a killing could be the point of a scene rather than its consequence. Everything from Deep Red to Halloween is downstream of this.
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