Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Claudio Camaso
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complica...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 16, 1999
Stats: 147 reviews
An important pre-cursor to Friday the 13th, Halloween and Black Christmas. Mario Bava's Bay of Blood is a little short of story and a little heavy on visuals (it's Italian so that's no surprise), but overall it's only modestly entertaining.
Many films on the Video Nasty list are horror cinema's answer to well-respected classics; The Last House on the Left offers a new spin on Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring, Island of Death is a more brutal telling of the story of Bonnie and Clyde and, indeed, this Mario Bava fil...( read more)
Mario Bava's splattery 1971 giallo pre-dated all the '70s body-count movies and was a huge influence on later slasher films.
It's deaths have been imitated countless times which makes it worth watching for that alone but the ending is a jaw-dropping piece of cinema that is probably the most unintentionally funny thing I've ever seen in a straight horror movie.
I have never really understood the appeal of slasher type films where the whole source of entertainment is that the next death is more bloodier than the first. Plot and pretty much everything else is left at the front gate but if you are a fan of this sort of film then you'll get...( read more)
Arguably the first film that could be considered a Slasher at least because of the first 45 minutes. But Bay Of Blood is much more than that. Although thin on story its definatly worth the while for the incredible Bava style. There are some beautiful images goin on in this pic. ...( read more)
You can definitely see the influence this film had on the first two Friday the 13th films. The killers' motivations (involving inheritance and land deals) are fairly unbelievable and even unnecessary. Later, when the slasher genre "matured," such convoluted plots were usually s...( read more)
i watched like 5 minuits of it the got bored its one of those rubbish old flims like made 50 years ago . boring.
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