A Blade In The Dark

Produced in 1983 (at 110 minutes) but unreleased in the US until Lightening Video debuted it on cassette, A BLADE IN THE DARK is an early film by Bava (son of Mario). Occhipinti is a young composer who has been hired by a movie director to score her latest horror epic. Alone in a rented villa, Occhipinti begins to notice some strange goings-on, all of which seem to relate to the previous tenant, a psychotic woman named Linda who may have returned to continue her crimes. The film is yet another boring Italian retread of Hitchcock's PSYCHO, with most of its running time devoted to solitary characters walking down dark, shadowy hallways and staircases, intercut with s...