A Bay of Blood

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michael C. Saw this as a kid under the title Twitch of the Death Nerve. Was really creepy. The kills I think inspired Friday the 13th, as they were very similar. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/26/25 Full Review babarizam D Not my cup of tea. Movie hit a spot where it became irritately boring Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/04/25 Full Review Horror fan 4 One of the greatest slashers of all time. in my opinion psycho is the first Slasher movie made. This is one that I'll revisit every year. Tim Treakle Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/29/25 Full Review Omar G A Bay of Blood (1971). Mario Bava's film influenced and was plagiarized in Friday the 13th part I and part II. They kill a disabled person in a wheelchair, they run a spear through the lovers, the son who seeks to avenge his elderly mother. There is a killer in the dark like Jason attacks Paul. Also the girl who was waiting for her lover at the lake and was killed like in The Final Chapter. They left a machete embedded in Bobby's face just like Mark from Friday The 13th part II. The corpses were Piled up like in A New Beginning. The decapitation of the fortune teller like Pamela Voorhees. Claudine Auger from 007 Thunderball (1965) a delightful hot female and the blonde even hotter. The Four in the buggy were crying out to die. Bobby could have the girls but he was an idiot, he and the other one looked like the paramedics from Halloween II (1981). The nymphomaniac with airs of an alpha female, who wants a threesome to demonstrate her power over men. The fortune teller or spiritualist is a favorite trope of Mario Bava. If the insect maniac had made love to his wife and he had not gotten involved and they would not have been killed. Paradoxically, the other young people died for having sex. Good decoration of the houses and good music. I would see more than 100 films made with artificial intelligence in the style of Mario Bava. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/18/24 Full Review Dave C A small number of the many-and-varied characters are provided with backstories, but the rest are simply slasher fodder for the murders committed from opening scene to closing, with myriad weapons and as many killers. Bava’s unwavering delight at every arterial spray, and his constant manoeuvring of the camera keep us off balance and disorientated, as he relishes in laying down his own slasher/giallo rules It is certainly the most bloody-minded and violent of his films, and continues developing his use of vibrant colours, shadows, and blurring camerawork, all of which inform the slasher and Hammer movies in the decades to follow Notably, the story has you remembering the murders, but paying less attention to the motivations behind them – the corruption, greed, lust, envy, etc. There is mastery in that too. The more I watch and read of Bava, and Giallo films, the more I appreciate how truly talented the auteurs are “This is a brutal, bludgeoning film, utterly misanthropic in its outlook, and all the better for its refusal to compromise in exposing human nature at its ugly, imitable worst.” – Anton Bitel, Little White Lies. 27 Sept 2019. If in any doubt, just you wait until the finale! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/26/24 Full Review Tasos L What can i say about this movie? A classic masterpiece, i' ve watched it a hundred times. One of Bava's best. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/15/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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