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Blood and Black Lace (Italian: Sei donne per l'assassino) is a 1964 Italian horror / thriller / Giallo film directed by Mario Bava, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Giusseppe Barilla and Marcello Fondato.The film, starring Cameron Mitchell and Eva Bartok, concerns the stalking and brutal murder of several fashion models by a white-masked killer who is desperately attempting to recover the diary of Isabella, one of the models and the first victim, containing potentially scandalous information on the fashion house's various indiscretions, including forced abortions, blackmail, and drug addiction. It soon becomes a race against time as the diary changes hands repeatedly, separately pursued by the police investigating Isabella's murder, and the mysterious figure who is willing to kill to prevent its secrets from being revealed.It is regarded as one of Bava's finest films and a shining example of what a Giallo is.
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Artistic License – Biology: Tao-li is totally dead, Christina having drowned her in the bathtub, but when Christina slits Tao-li's wrists to make it look like suicide, somehow the bathtub rapidly fills with blood as if Tao-li's heart were still beating.
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The Sociopath: Massimo Morliacchi murders his supposed best friend to marry the guy's wife and take his money. When he's blackmailed by one of his employees, he murders her before cutting his way through various other women to get a diary with incriminating information. His ills are deliberately brutal in order to make the police think it's a sex maniac, and he pretends to be a cop to trick his wife into falling to her near-death, before trying to gaslight her when she does live.
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The Blank: The killer wears a featureless white mask.
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Deadly Bath
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Deadly Bath: Tao-li is drowned by pushing her face into a full bathtub, then her corpse is dumped into it.
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Massimo's wife Cristina is an accomplice to Massimo's crimes and kills two people to help secure her and Massimo's alibis to free themselves from police suspicion.
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The Killer in Me
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The Killer in Me: While the film is an Ensemble Cast, Cameron Mitchell's character is top billed in the credits, and he's the one responsible for every murder in the film, either by his own hand of his wife as his accomplice.
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Everyone Is a Suspect
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Everyone Is a Suspect: All of the characters have something to hide that might get revealed in Isabella's diary, so everyone is a suspect in the murders that follow.
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Dies Wide Open
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Dies Wide Open: All of the murder victims die with their eyes wide open. One shot emphasizes Greta and Peggy's corpses lying slumped together, their eyes rolled back and staring into a mirrored table.
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Trope Codifier
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Trope Codifier: For the Giallo genre. It wasn't the first film to feature all the main narrative elements, but it was the first to combine them all in color and with the level of sexuality and graphic bloodshed the genre would come to be known for.
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Guilt-Ridden Accomplice
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Guilt-Ridden Accomplice: Played with. Cristina is obviously having a difficult time with killing Tao-Li to secure her and Massimo's alibis. She ends up figuring out Massimo set her up to die and kills him before succumbing to the wounds from her second-story fall before we find out if she'd have cracked under the pressure of living with what she'd done.
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Two Dun It
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Two Dun It: There are two people under the mask. Massimo killed some of the women, and Cristina killed the others to draw their attention away.
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Yellowface: Claude Dantes, a blue-eyed white woman, wears a Romulan-esque haircut and a ton of eyeliner to play the supposedly Chinese Tao-li. Apart from her name, you would be forgiven for not even realizing that she's supposed to be Asian.
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Evil All Along
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Evil All Along: Massimo Morlacchi/Max Morlan engineered all the killings, and even duped her and attempted to kill her to be rid of her for her money. He seems an okay guy in the beginning, but he's completely evil.
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Advertised Extra: Surprisingly, the top-billed Cameron Mitchell has much less than you'd expect to do in the film. We see him in two scenes in the beginning, and then not again until all the male suspects are brought into the police station as suspects, about 50 minutes into the film. He does get some additional screen time in the third act, and eventually turn out to be the Big Bad, but considering his placement in the credits, virtually all of the other billed characters end up having more screen time than Mitchell's character in the first two acts. For sheer screen time, Thomas Reiner's Inspector Sylvestri is arguably the character who gets the most in the film, yet he's billed third. Also, Arianna Gorini, billed fourth, and Mary Arden, billed sixth, are the second and third victims, respectively.
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Vehicle Vanish
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Vehicle Vanish: The purse with the very important diary is sitting on a table. Some people bring a rack full of clothes. When they pass, the purse is gone.
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Police Are Useless: The main detective is no closer to solving the case the last time we see him than he is when we first meet him — he spends his screen time generally working in the right direction, but not pressing hard enough.
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Mood Lighting: Seemingly every room in the film is lit with surreal, unnatural pools of red, blue, yellow, purple, and green light. Franco's antique shop is next door to a huge neon sign that flashes on and off every few seconds, causing a pattern of pitch blackness and blue lighting that basically serves as Hollywood Darkness.
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Vorpal Pillow
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Vorpal Pillow: In true Vorpal Pillow fashion, it takes about ten seconds for the killer to smother Greta to death with a cushion.
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Coat, Hat, Mask: The killer's full get-up includes a Stocking Mask, a Fedora of Asskicking, and a Conspicuous Trenchcoat, part of the standard Giallo villain fashion.
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Peek-a-Boo Corpse: Isabella turns up in a cabinet in the fashion studio. Peggy's corpse keeps falling out of things. First, it spills out of the trunk of Greta's car. When Greta pulls back a dressing screen to check on the corpse, it collapses onto her, knocking her over.
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White Mask of Doom
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White Mask of Doom: The killer wears a white mask that covers the entire face.
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Big Bad: Massimo Morlacchi is the killer.
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Mass "Oh, Crap!": Everyone after Nicole publicly announces that she found Isabella's diary, along with Reaction Shot for each of them.
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Samus Is a Girl: The masked killer is revealed to (sometimes) be Cristina in spite of the killer's masculine shape and ability to overpower a number of women. She's the one we see actually remove the costume.
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MacGuffin: Everyone wants the diary because it exposes all of the shady stuff they've been up to.
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Dramatic Irony: When Nicole reads from Isabella's diary, the entry foreshadows Isabella's death. Depending on the translation, the diary either reads that she met a man she would die for, or that he inflames such passion in him that afterwords she feels "limp... empty." The audience has already seen Isabella murdered and her limp body dragged away.
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Soundtrack Dissonance: A movie about a masked killer butchering a woman, set to...lounge jazz?
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Punk in the Trunk
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Punk in the Trunk: Greta is unpleasantly surprised when she opens the trunk of her car and Peggy's corpse falls out.
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
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Drop Dead Gorgeous: Nicole, Peggy and Tao-li all die in varying states of undress and continue to be shown off in a sexual manner even after death. Isabella and Greta get to have their shapely, garter-belted thighs shown off as they're being smothered (Greta) or dragged off after having been strangled (Isabella).
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Slasher Movie
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Slasher Movie: While the film predates slasher films, the plot is effectively just a string of attractive young women being brutally murdered, so it predicts the slasher genre.
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Freudian Excuse: it's speculated by several characters that the killer is enraged by the sight of attractive women due to some form of sexual inadequacy.
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Never Suicide
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Never Suicide: Tao-Li's death is arranged to look like a suicide. We never find out if the police fell for it or not, though when they track down Christina and Massimo's corpses, and see Christina in the killer's get-up, they'll hopefully figure it out.
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Reaction Shot: When Isabella's diary is discovered, everyone in the room gets a reaction shot of alarm, showing that Everyone Is a Suspect.
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Decoy Protagonist: The film follows Nicole around in the early scenes, making it seem like she is our protagonist in the aftermath of Isabella's mysterious murder, but then the murderer kills her as well, and the film starts bouncing around between characters as they, too, get killed off.
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Translation Convention: As per standard in Giallo films, all the actors speak in their native languages, and their dialogue is dubbed over with the language of the country the film is released in. Isabella's diary is written in Italian, but in the English language version, it's read as English, so it seems as though English stands for Italian. The murderer writes out a message in German, however, so it's unclear if he's supposed to be speaking German at times.
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Dub Name Change: The English dub Anglicizes the character names, though the script remains unchanged so the setting is still Rome: Cristiana Cuomo -> Christina Como Massimo Morlacchi -> Max Morlan Silvestri -> Sylvester Franco -> Frank Tao-Li -> Tilde Riccardo Morelli -> Richard Morell Cesare Lazzarini -> Caesar Lazar Clarissa -> Clarice
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Clothing Damage: Nicole gets her dress torn off, revealing her bra, as she runs from the killer.
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Bookcase Passage: there's (inexplicably) one in the fashion studio.
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Ensemble Cast: there is no main protagonist. The story jumps around between the (quickly shrinking) group of people who work at the studio and Inspector Silvestri.
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