A Bay of Blood

  • Horror
  • Thriller
9/8/1971
85

They came to play, they stayed to die.

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, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.

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  • Wuchak

    Seminal Italian slasher

    At a bay on the remote coast of central Italy, corpses mount up as several people contest over the valuable property rights. Some of those involved are four party-minded youths in a yellow dune buggy.

    Mario Bava's "A Bay of Blood" (1971) is called Ecology of Crime in Italian (translated) and is known by a few other names, like Twitch of the Death Nerve (A Bay of Blood is easily the best title).

    With one foot firmly in giallo territory, it is hailed as the progenitor and blueprint for the kitschy slasher craze that would soon emerge with "Halloween" (1978) and "Friday the 13th" (1980). But lets not forget about the influential films that led up to this one, like "Psycho" (1960), "Dementia 13" (1963)...

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