Blood and Black Lace (1964) aka Sei donne per l'assassino (RM4k Arrow 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 1.0 Dual Commentary) Mario Bava Eva Bartok Cameron Mitchell Mary Arden Massimo Righi Arianna Gorini Thomas Reiner Lea Lander Dante DiPaolo hq 60s
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- LanguageItalian
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Blood and Black Lace
Inspector Sylvester is assigned to investigate the violent murder of a fashion house model Isabella, by a masked assailant. As the investigation proceeds all of the house’s various sins, including corruption, abortions, blackmail and drug addiction, begin to come to light. It turns out that Isabella had kept a diary detailing these vices, and now almost every employee becomes nervous.
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Blood and Black Lace (1964) aka Sei donne per l'assassino, directed by Mario Bava, Arrow 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Italian theatrical mono, original English theatrical mono, commentary track, and English subtitles.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058567/
Video encoded in two-pass 13.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : Here's another considerable upgrade to a previous encode. This is one of my favorite gialli, and one of my favorite Mario Bava movies, and this 4k remaster from Arrow is a big upgrade in image quality, which is important, because this is one of the coolest looking movies of all time. Bava had only made a few films in color before this, but his mastery of light and color here is absolute, with shadows, silhouettes, shafts of light, and primary colors dancing across the screen. This wasn't the very first giallo (that was Bava a year before with The Girl Who Knew Too Much), but it established many giallo conventions: Black-gloved, trenchcoated killer, lurid color, graphic, sadistic kills (for the time), nudity (very moderate), and lots of red herrings, dark secrets, and twists. The cast, headed up by Eva Bartok and Cameron Mitchell, supported by Mary Arden, Massimo Righi, Arianna Gorini, Thomas Reiner, Lea Lander, and Dante DiPaolo, is all very good. It's the giallo for me, with its influence extremely clear in Argento's best work a decade or even two later, and in the end, style is king, and the king of style is Mario Bava.
A series of models working at a Roman fashion house are stalked and killed by a mysterious masked killer who's looking for a diary with compromising information, so the girls have got to go, one by one. By the time of the third act, everyone's a suspect, and there's a twist that makes what seems impossible, posssible. Of course, this all has something to do with drugs, which are bad (in this case, it's cocaine). Also abortions, which are also bad. And women are bad too. Tempresses all.
This 4k remaster is a big upgrade, with excellent color and contrast, showcasing both Technicolor pop and fairly natural skintones while being faithful to the period's look, and about as much fine detail as you can expect from color material from the mid-sixties. It was very grainy, though, so I applied some light degrain, which I think helps. Both mono tracks sound good, and the commentary track, by Bava biographer Tim Lucas, is insightful and informative, if not particularly entertaining.
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 242 kb/s / 1 channel / Original Italian theatrical mono / Italian / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 243 kb/s / 1 channel / Original English theatrical mono / English
Audio #3 : AAC LC / 155 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas / English
Text #1 : VobSub / 5.5 kb/s / English for Italian audio
Text #2 : VobSub / 5.7 kb/s / English SDH for English audio
Text #3 : VobSub / 14.0 b/s / English for on-screen text
Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1
00:06:43.111 : Chapter 2
00:14:41.381 : Chapter 3
00:21:47.097 : Chapter 4
00:28:00.554 : Chapter 5
00:38:05.033 : Chapter 6
00:45:15.963 : Chapter 7
00:50:50.798 : Chapter 8
00:58:04.439 : Chapter 9
01:04:37.457 : Chapter 10
01:14:44.063 : Chapter 11
01:20:53.891 : Chapter 12
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