Blood And Black Lace

For all the praise that's been heaped upon Herschell Gordon Lewis' BLOOD FEAST for being years ahead of its time, Mario Bava's BLOOD AND BLACK LACE is just as important--and certainly much better. As plotless as most of Bava's other work, the film is set in a high-fashion agency run by Christina (Eva Bartok) and her lover, Max (Cameron Mitchell), who use their business as a front for a drug ring. The agency's beautiful models are murdered one by one, stalked by a masked killer wearing a glove fitted with metal claws. With its systematic disposal of beautiful-but-characterless women, graphic bloodletting, and sweeping, sumptuous camera work, BLOOD AND BLACK LACE is ...