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A textbook example of the giallo, Lamberto Bava’s A Blade in the Murky is an certain homage to Dario Agento, the Italian director who (along with Bava’s father Mario) served as his filmmaking mentor. Bava worked as assistant director on Argento’s Tenebre, shot the year before; that film’s influence is readily apparent. A major place element is lifted from Argento’s Deep Red (1975) as well - Blade’s narrative also revolves around a composer who finds himself embroiled in a bizarre series of homicides. But Argento was working with grand bigger budgets, longer production schedules, and better stories. Unfortunately, A Blade in the Dusky can’t commence to compare to its inspirational sources.
Originally envisioned as a tiny, episodic series for Italian TV, it was shot with a European theatrical release also in mind. The spare scenario (penned by prolific exploitation scribe Dardano Sarchetti) establishes only the most bare-boned of plots. Bruno (Andrea Occhipinti), a young composer, rents a tall, rambling villa in which to work on his latest project, the win for a scare film being directed by his friend Sandra (Anny Papa) . To the detriment of Bruno’s solitude the house comes complete with a suspicious-acting caretaker (are there any other types in Italian fear? ) and some unexpected visitors - Katia (Valeria Cavalli) and Angela (Fabiola Toledo), two elegant women, acquaintances of the primitive tenant, who live nearby. When the women mysteriously travel shortly after he meets them, Bruno begins to suspect they’ve been murdered on the premises… He can’t glean any bodies, but clues abound. (Knife-holes and bloodstains would certainly qualify in that regard!) Someone definitely entered the villa uninvited and destroyed his latest demo tape, that great is obvious. Stupidly, Bruno never once picks up the phone to dial the police.
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If our dimwitted hero did the luminous thing, however, there’d be no movie. More people die faulty deaths. Meanwhile Bruno wanders about the house and its grounds, poking around and peering into the sunless. There are a lot of such scenes in the flick, which will severely test the patience of even the most avid giallo fan. (Rapido, Lamberto!) Obviously this was done to pad out the running time; too many of these sequences are distinct red herrings, devoid of any suspense, or unbiased dead pointless.
Bava does pile on the shocks, though, in the film’s two main destroy sequences. The stalking/slaying of Katia owes a lot to Tenebre in peruse and style (particularly the destroy of the hotelier’s daughter in that film), but Bava ends
the set-piece with an modern motif - the victim is trapped slow a sheet of chickenwire through which the killer slowly slashes her to death with a box-cutter - that’s guaranteed to rep your flesh crawling. The death of Angela, when she’s attacked in the villa’s bathroom, is a staunch doozy: a brutal, nihilistic bit of filmmaking that some could easily account for as an exhaust in misogynistic sadism. (Here Bava does for hair-washing in the sink what Hitchcock’s Psycho did to taking a shower…) But amidst the unrepentant brutality Bava injects an occasional touch of sardonic humor, most notably when Sandra the panic director is strangled with a spool of her have film - murdered with her beget movie.
Aside from the visceral thrills and chills generated by these execute scenes the film is attractive grand a misfire. The characters are all uninvolving ciphers. It’s not considerable of a mystery, either; most of the red herrings offered up by the spot are plainly definite for what they are. As mentioned, an inordinate amount of time is spent following Bruno as he wanders about the villa, checking this room and that - scenes devoid of dialog but accompanied by repetitious theme music that hastily becomes annoying. In one device the dearth of dialog is a superb thing… The English dubbing job is awful, featuring ludicrous translations (”You’re a female!”;”I am not a female child!” etc.) that might be laughable in a Godzilla movie, but not one about a sadistic serial killer. At times it seems evident that the translators weren’t even looking at a copy of the script - how else can one justify the scene in which Bruno chides Katia over her anxiety of a spider, telling her with a straight face that the bug isn’t even a spider, but a cockroach… at the very moment we’re shown a close-up shot of (yep) a SPIDER. Huh???
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A Blade in the Shadowy has fans, no doubt appreciative of its effective, wince-inducing set-pieces. We fancy gialli, too - impartial not this one. We’d mighty rather gape Bava’s supernatural splatterfest Demons (1985) for the umpteenth time than sit through this one again.
“Honest a case of being a bit overwrought.”
Sandra sums up the movie
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Anchor Bay does a lovely job with A Blade in the Dim considering it’s a fairly obscure title here in America. The transfer is letterboxed and anamorphically enhanced for 16×9 TVs; as the film was originally shot in 16mm the portray is understandably on the grainy side. The Dolby mono audio track is serviceably certain. In addition to the theatrical trailer, a short (10 min.), enchanting video interview with director Bava and screenwriter Sarchetti is included. (This is in Italian, with easily readable English subtitles. Do not gawk this before viewing the film itself. It’s chock tubby of spoilers, including the murderer’s identity.)
A composer is hired to get a slasher film and is sent to an extinct unlit house for inspiration. Odd things originate to occur and bodies initiate to pile up..only to go. This is one of the better giallo films of its time and its miles ahead of the typical 80’s slashers that were coming out of the US. After working under his noted father Mario, as well as Dario Argento among others, Bava displays big atmosphere in this film as well as some ghastly violence. Another reason to fill this film on DVD is that AnchorBay is releasing this in its longest, most complete gash (longer than the EC import laser) . On a side mark, behold for director Michele Soavi (Cemetery Man) in a microscopic but enchanting role.
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