A Bay of Blood

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A Bay of Blood

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Following the murder of Countess Federica Donati (Isa Miranda), an heiress possessing a beautiful piece of beachfront property, members of her family and the surrounding community engage in a killing spree, each with his own secret agenda. In addition to the string of creative murders, a group of hippies arrives on the premises, engage in promiscuous sex and find themselves dying one by one in this cult classic that's considered to be the original slasher film.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

10/21/2021

3/4

An effective example of the giallo genre.

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Anton Bitel

Little White Lies

09/27/2019

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.

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A.S. Hamrah

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11/29/2018

Radical and surprising.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

10/21/2011

1/4

A typically useless effort from Mario Bava...

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Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

06/14/2009

10/10

If only one-hundredth of the films it influenced had one-hundredth of its perfection, the horror film would be a much less disreputable and more wonderful thing than has been the case.

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Dustin Putman

TheFilmFile.com

10/09/2008

2.5/4

Bava displays how ahead of the curve he was in tackling the slasher genre.

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Patrick R

@Patric4aris Dec 10

I THINK MINTY COMEDIC ARTS SHOULD DO A 10 THINGS VIDEO OF THIS FILM IT DESERVES IT FUNNY ENOUGH THE FILM ENDS WITH A HAPPY ENDING AND A HAPPY SONG

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Jul 27

Success in 1 hour and 24 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Filmed on location all over the City of Rome, Italy and dubbed and subtitled in the United States of America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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michael C.

@MichaelC2 Jul 26

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.

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babarizam D

May 4

Not my cup of tea. Movie hit a spot where it became irritately boring

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Horror fan 4

Mar 29

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

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Omar G

12/18/2024

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.

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Synopsis

Following the murder of Countess Federica Donati (Isa Miranda), an heiress possessing a beautiful piece of beachfront property, members of her family and the surrounding community engage in a killing spree, each with his own secret agenda. In addition to the string of creative murders, a group of hippies arrives on the premises, engage in promiscuous sex and find themselves dying one by one in this cult classic that's considered to be the original slasher film.

Director: Mario Bava
Producer: Giuseppe Zaccariello
Screenwriter: Mario Bava, Filippo Ottoni, Giuseppe Zaccariello
Distributor: American International Pictures
Production Co: Nuova Linea Cinematografica
Rating: R
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Italian
Release Date (Theaters): May 3, 1972, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 17, 2020
Runtime: 1h 24m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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