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Welcome to the Bay of Blood in Reazione a catena (A Bay of Blood)(Twitch of the Death Nerve) (1971)
  • Caption: Welcome to the Bay of Blood in Reazione a catena (A Bay of Blood)(Twitch of the Death Nerve) (1971)
  • Description: When Stacie first announced her Friday the 13th blog-a-thon I didn’t sign-up right away since here at Cinebeats I try and keep the focus on sixties and seventies era films, and the first Friday the 13th movie was released in 1980. Then I remembered something…

    Long before Jason put on a hockey mask and started terrorizing camp counselors at Crystal Lake, Mario Bava took audiences on a trip to the Bay Of Blood (a.k.a. Twitch of the Death Nerve, Reazione a catena, 1971) and I decided to revisit the Bay of Blood and examine just how much influence it had on the Friday the 13th films following its 1971 release.

    Mario Bava’s Bay of Blood takes place in a quiet bayside Italian resort area where lots of holiday homes seem to lay dormant and empty waiting for their owners to return. Some of the homes are more luxurious than others, but they’re all rather close together and in some ways resemble a sort of “summer camp.” For good or bad, the neighbors all seem to know one another and the bay itself actually looks more like a lake. Naturally the homes all have their own weather beaten boat docks and the area seems heavily forested, which comes in handy since a lot of the action takes place in the local woods.
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  • Movie: Reazione a catena (A Bay of Blood)(Twitch of the Death Nerve)
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