Sei donne per l'assassino (1964)

Director:

Mario Bava

Writers:

Marcello Fondato (story)
Giuseppe Barilla (collaboration) ...

Release Date:

7 April 1965 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

The greatest shocks ever filmed

Plot:

Italian thriller about a shadowy killer in black murdering fashion models through brutal methods.

Plot Keywords:

Killer | Model | Killing | Diary | Masked Killer

Cast

Cameron Mitchell	...	Max Marian
Eva Bartok	...	Contessa Cristina Como
Thomas Reiner	...	Inspector Silvester
Ariana Gorini	...	Nicole
Dante DiPaolo	...	Frank Sacalo
Mary Arden	...	Peggy Peyton
Franco Ressel	...	Marquis Richard Morell
Claude Dantes	...	Tao-Li
Luciano Pigozzi	...	Cesar Losarre
Lea Lander	...	Greta (as Lea Krugher)
Massimo Righi	...	Marco
Francesca Ungaro	...	Isabella
Giuliano Raffaelli	...	Zanchin
Harriet Medin	...	Clarice (as Harriet White Medin)
Mary Carmen	...	Model (as Mara Carmosino)

Also Known As:

6 Femmes pour l'assassin (France)
Blood and Black Lace (USA)
Fashion House of Death
L'atelier de la peur (France)
Six Women for the Murderer (International: English title) (literal title)
6 gynaikes gia to dolofono (Greece) [el]
Aima sti mavri dantela (Greece) (reissue title) [el]
Blod och svarta spetsar (Sweden) [sv]
Blutige Seide (West Germany) [de]
Der Würger mit der Maske (Austria) [de]
Himotappaja (Finland) [fi]
Jernhånden i rædselsnatten (Denmark) [da]
Lustmördaren (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]
Seis mujeres para el asesino (Spain) [es]
Seis mujeres para un asesino (Argentina) [es]

Runtime:

88 min | USA:84 min

Country:

Italy | France | Monaco

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:MA (2009) | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | France:-18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:Unrated | West Germany:16 | Canada:13+ (Quebec)

Filming Locations:

A.T.C. Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Emmepi Cinematografica

Trivia:

Due to the film's low budget Mario Bava mounted the camera on a child's wagon and used it for tracking shots.

Quotes:

Inspector Silvester: Perhaps the sight of beauty makes him lose control of himself, so he kills.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Dream House (2009) (V)

Another stylish and colorful Bava highlight!

Bava's fifth fully-credited horror film as a director is efficiently set in a famous Roman fashion house. Drug abuse, adultery and blackmail are a daily routing for the beautiful models working there. But now, the line of small felonies is permanently crossed with the bloody murder of one of the house's top models. Several others undergo the same merciless …killed by a raving psychopath dressed much like Claude Rains was disguised in `the Invisible Man'. Blood and Black Lace is a lot slower and less dark than the usual Bava chillers. The plot also is pretty predictable, but that doesn't keep Bava from providing the film with a lot of magnificent tension and cruelty that is ahead of its time. Gothic morbidity rules the atmosphere, the score is genuinely creepy and the actresses are ravishingly-looking. Mario Bava always delivers and that makes him the greatest horror director of all time! Period!