"Blood and Black Lace"//"The Whip and the Body"//"Kill Baby Kill" (coming soon)

"Blood and Black Lace"

Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner and Claude Dantes.

Directed By: Mario Bava

A Fashion House of Glamorous Models...Becomes a Terror House of Blood!!
DVD Information:
VCI Entertainment - Aspect Ratio 1:85.1 - Dolby Digital mono - Audio Commentary with Tim Lucas - Photo Gallery - Film audio Soundtrack - English, Italian and French language tracks - Interviews - Theatrical Trailers.
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Before "Friday the 13th, "Nightmare on Elm Street", there was "Blood and Black Lace". The first authentic Body Count movie of it's kind. Known as the Italian Godfather of Horror, director Mario Bava sets the mood for a creepy and cinematic journey.
When fashion models begin to turn up dead, the police are on the scene. Our first victim is brutally murdered and a diary of hers is left behind. Everyones eye's are on the diary, and her boyfriend, a known addict supplying drugs, is suspected of the crime.
The body count begins and one by one these exotic models are viciously murdered. A faceless creature is lurking backstage waiting on his next victim. Filled with suspenseful music and brutal deaths, "Blood and Black Lace" has all the makings of a greaat slasher film as well as an interesting story as well. In the tradition of Alfred Hitchock, the mood is set and a masterpiece is born.
The newley remastered DVD is the Uncut, Widescreen, European Version taken from a German print. This is the best film to video transfer i've ever seen of the film. The disc contains a very interesting Commentary by Tim Lucas, Bonus Music Soundtrack, Trailers, Photo Gallery, and my favorite..interviews with the actors Cameron Mitchell and Mary Dawne Arden.

"THE WHIP AND THE BODY"

Starring: Christopher Lee, Daliah Lavi and Tony Kendall.

Directed By: Mario Bava (aka John M. Old).

"Part whodunit, part ghost story, and one of the most deliriously romantic horror pictures ever made". ...Tim Lucas, Video Watchdog.
DVD Information:
VCI Entertainment - Aspect Ratio 1:85.1 - Dolby Digital mono - Audio Commentary with Tim Lucas - Photo Gallery - Film audio Soundtrack - English, Italian and French language tracks - Interviews - Theatrical Trailers.
This controversial sado-masochistic horror masterpiece from Mario Bava, mutilated in almost every country when it was initally released, is now presented in the uncut European, Widescreen version.
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Nevenka's (Daliah Lavi) ex-lover, who is her husbands brother, Kurt (Christopher Lee), has returned home to claim her and he does so by engaging in a forbidden rendezvous. Kurt, a mysterial gothic looking like creature appears back home late one night. The castle in dark and gloomy. When Kurt enters the home everyone fells unsteady. He takes his ex-lover Nevenka's hand, who is now married to his brother, and kisses it. When he begins to speak a sinister and heartless voice flows from his tongue. After a confrontation with his father, his father agrees he can stay temporarily.
Later that night, out on the beach, Kurt and Nevenka meet and engage in a passionate kiss. When she goes to strike him with a whip, he grabs it from her hands and begins to beat her with it. When he is through he falls on top of her and they make wild steamy love.
When he returns home the others ask where Nevenka is. Suddenly the search is on for her body. One of the caretakers finds her body and takes her to her bed. Later that night, Kurt, is attacked and killed with a dagger through his neck.
The next night, Nevenka begins to have wild and horrific dreams of kurt. She awakens and sees his body looking at her through the window. She begins to go mad. A hand reaches up and her and rips her clothes off. The ghost of Kurt is now haunting her to brink of insanity.
In her mind...In her dreams...Both pleasure and pain...Forever more.
This newley restored, remastered Uncut European DVD Version is presented in Widescreen 1:85:1 Ratio. Like "Blood and Black Lace" this is the best film to video transfer of the film i've ever seen. The picture quality and sound is very crisp and clean with minor flaws. The DVD also contains, Commentary by Tim Lucas, A Bonus Soundtrack, Trailers and a photo gallery.

"Kill Baby Kill"

Available from VCI Home Video, The Mario Bava Box set contains 3 great films from a brillant director. "Blood and Black Lace", "Kill Baby Kill" and "The Whip and the Body". A must have for any collector.


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