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Film Description
Bond girl Claudine Auger stars in A Bay of Blood, cult director Mario Bava's influential precursor to the contemporary slasher movie.
When an old heiress is murdered, thirteen candidates arrive in hope of inheriting her fortune and instead come face-to-face with a dedicated serial killer. Meanwhile, a gaggle of beach-partying hippies are murdered in a variety of grisly ways.
After Blood and Black Lace changed the face of the Italian thriller, Mario Bava became the most important name in genre cinema before Dario Argento, and Bay of Blood i... more >
After Blood and Black Lace changed the face of the Italian thriller, Mario Bava became the most important name in genre cinema before Dario Argento, and Bay of Blood is his most influential film on the cinema of other countries. Essentially an Agatha Christie-style murder mystery dressed up in the most graphic of killings, the film was virtually a blueprint for Sean Cunningham's Friday the Thirteenth series, with several of the imaginatively grotesque slayings lifted wholesale from Bava's film. Needless to say, the flat, unatmospheric milieu of the Cunningham films is something that's very much that producer's own input, as Bava creates a typically delirious dreamlike state in his narrative. The film begins with a particularly striking killing in which an elderly woman in a wheelchair is gruesomely hanged by a shadowy figure. Shortly after that, the killer himself is bloodily stabbed, and the carnage escalates. < less
