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Originally Posted by PaulD  Blood and Black Lace: I'm a huge gialli fan and have seen most of, if not all, the relevant works of Argento, Fulci, Lenzi, Martino etc but I've only seen a handful of Bava's films. I know. The shame, the shame. I really enjoyed this; it was pretty by-the-numbers as far as these things go but looked beautiful and proves Bava as a true master of the genre with an incredible eye for filmmaking. Really stylish. |
Beautiful, isn't it? I don't know if I'd call it 'by the numbers' exactly, when it was one of the films writing the rulebook, but I know what you mean - it's certainly archetypal. When I started watching gialli,
B&BL and
The Girl Who Knew Too Much, were two of the first I saw. Since then I haven't adhered so strictly to the chronology.