 Thanks for checking out this no spoilers movie review for the film blood and black lace Which is an old Italian giallo film done by Mario Bava that was done in 1964 real quick off the bat. Obviously the Scenery behind me is much different than what people are used to and the audio is different because there's a lot more of an echo I'm doing this review because I'm kind of late on getting it out. I wanted to get it out earlier, but doing vacation stuff and Yeah, when you're doing vacation and you want to do a video like this, you kind of just work with whatever you have So where we're staying is what I got, you know, so the lighting is not the best and the Audio is not the best because there's a lot of echo here So I apologize for that, but the review the content should be quite good I just finished watching blood and black lace which by the way if anyone watch my Review of Daria Argento's deep red. 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I would really appreciate that once again Sorry for the acoustics and the lighting, but let's talk about blood and black lace This film actually and I said it during my deep red review Is the number one rated giallo film on internet movie database dot com or I am debug IMdb.com as most people know it Yeah, so it's the number one I that having been said I will say right off the bat I like this film. I thought it was a good film But I liked deep red a lot more deep red came in and the top I think like 50 giallo films as number 13 and blood and black lace was number one And I'm thinking the main reason for that is that blood and black lace was well before deep red I think at least about 10 years somewhere in that realm It may have been actually a little bit more than 10 years before deep red happens So I think the reason that blood and black lace is so high is because it kind of got the ball rolling on giallo In Italy, so that's kind of you know why I think because it's one of those nostalgia things When something gets there first people tend to think of it as of the best as opposed to You know where it would naturally rank with the other films that come well after it So that's just my thought Okay, just gonna go through this with my notes for how I felt and what came up as I was going through the film The introduction is awesome the way they get it going. It's extremely stylish It looks very very good the colors that they use they use a lot of different colors in the intro and kind of show a bunch of the different Characters with you know colors that really pop like there's some purple some green some reds that look really nice So it's very visually pleasing and it's a really nice way to get you engaged in the film right off the bat Because for me like it's it's not just about substance. It's also about style Now I don't like just style or just substance. I like it together So when you start with one of those things and then also have the other thing it's very nice and this film does that They set a very tense and menacing tone immediately They kind of don't Waste any time getting to the actual conflict in the story and what's really going on because you know being a giallo film It's all about who is the killer. So you really have to set up immediately Killing basically and then let's start unraveling this mystery So I really like that how they they wasted almost no time They just got right into it because of the time period these practical effects really didn't look very good but that's kind of something people need to keep in mind is that Practical effects over time they just got better and better and better and better right now practical effects What's available at least is the best that's ever been now Does everyone do it that way in their films? No, not necessarily, but when watching much older films like this I mean this film is I mean it's from 1964 so in decades and decades ago You need to consider that the practical effects just what were available was not Anywhere near what's available today. So just keep that in mind when you're watching older films like this Another thing just like that is the acting the acting ability There's been much more of a focus as the decades have gone on of acting that feels natural that feels like oh this makes sense As opposed to what it used to be is it used to kind of be more like a go bigger? You know have more bravado Kind of stand out more it was closer to like a stage acting Versus what's now film acting and those types of acting are extremely different if you think about it stage acting is more over the top and it's kind of Just accepted as that way Whereas what we've gotten to now with like show and and movie acting. It's more like this is real life So watching this film that kind of stood out to me as well the practical effects for being not so good But that's you know product of its time and also the acting for the time. It was good acting so but that also said Where with deep red it was dubbed in English and shot in Italian So the mouse didn't the mouths did not Line up with the words This one was I believe it was shot in Italian and it was not it dubbed in English and there were just subtitles and the mouse did not match up with the words which When it's in subtitles and you're mainly just reading the subtitles it's not that distracting but when you look up every now and then and it's another language and The mouths are not matching up with that language. It is kind of distracting and you're just kind of like this Doesn't make a whole lot of sense. So I don't know that that's just a small thing just a very very small thing. So There are some amazingly frame shots in this the cinematography is really good the directing is really good and The set design is really nice. Like I was saying before like in the intro It's very stylish and there are a lot of really nice colors that pop That's one of the big things in this is that the use of colors Is really awesome in the set as well as the use of lighting especially during the night scenes Which there are plenty of night night scenes in this film and the way they they choose to light certain things and keep Certain things in the shadow look really great And then also on top of that the fact that they don't always light things in the dark with just regular light like white light Sometimes they're lighting it with like purple or like a green or a blue and it looks really cool Like I love those stylistic choices and that's yet just another thing that keeps you engaged in the film So I really like that But there were some really awesome shots in the film. There was one in particular That was shot through the handles of a purse There was like a purse sitting on like a counter and the handles the both the handles went up And they kind of like they weren't lined up together It was kind of like one was like this and then the other one was like a little bit over to the side So they made like a little bit of a pattern and then you were the camera was going like kind of through it And there was a woman framed by the handles of the purse That just looked really cool. And then there was stuff on the side going on in the scene It was really awesome. Like I really like interesting shots like that and that was really nice But also there were a bunch of Scenes where they did mirrors they use mirrors to like shoot in the mirror So initially you don't know that it's being shot in a mirror And then they just kind of like pan away or like move up or something and then you see oh This is was shot in a mirror and then you go to where the scene is actually going on I really like stuff like that too. It's once again, it's like a stylistic thing. It's very stylish It's very nice and it's fun. It keeps you interested because one of the things is It's not just about having good acting and having good story If you can keep people engaged with interesting shots, that's just another level and it's super fun for me at least Put down the comments. Are you a big fan of interesting shots or you don't care? You're just there for the substance I Would say in this film they did a really good job of making everyone seem potentially guilty There are a bunch of characters in it who they don't really go a whole lot into those individual characters Like backstory wise But that kind of serves the story because you don't want to know too much because it's this whole guessing game of You know, we're slowly unraveling this mystery of who the killer is and you have a bunch of options Which keeps you guessing and it's nice and like I said, they they make a lot of these characters seem Potentially guilty, which is great because then you have a much larger pool. It keeps you guessing longer. It's more engaging It's more fun. So you did a good job with that story wise. I already talked about the lighting. That was my next note and the acting as well Although I will say it's really funny with some of these some of the people who were suspects in this film They keep acting like and I just found this really funny. They just keep being like, well, I gave you my alibi Why can't I go like why are you holding me? Obviously this investigation is over concerning me because I just gave you my alibi It's kind of this thing of like just assuming that everyone's word is 100% all the time And everyone should act that way. It's just kind of funny because it's not just one character who acts like that It's kind of multiples. So I don't know. I just kind of found that funny And then the other thing that that kind of Stood out to me with with how the film was done with the story in the acting is that There's no sympathy really for the people who are close to the deceased in this film It's kind of like someone dies and then people are just like Yeah, you know that really sucks But hey, guess what we still got to work like tomorrow You got a you better be here at the normal time because we got things to do and there's absolutely no sympathy for how People connected to the deceased even are feeling or the amount of fear these people have because the killer's still on the loose Everyone's just like I Mean come on just go on with your life and see you tomorrow work. Let's go which I think Kind of is applicable now. I think that people by and large are more Sympathetic when things like that happen, but at the same time like Work is still like hey when you come it back, you know, like it still kind of applies today Anyway, but that's it actually overall I did enjoy the film like I said, I didn't enjoy it as much as I enjoyed Dario Argento deep red But this one's a good one if you do like giallo, and this is you know, super highly rated I would say definitely check it out. I give it three and a half stars out of five So I would recommend it. It's pretty solid So yeah, enjoy it and then let me go ahead. I have three films that I'm considering for my next Film review that I'm gonna be pulling off of shutter So I am gonna post that as a poll in my Facebook group But like I said, you can comment down below what you want and I will allow people to add to the list These are just three Options to get people started so you can vote one for one of these or you can throw out your own Once again, I'm trying to make sure it's from shutter So if you don't have shutter, you can make a guess at if it's on shutter or not So I'll count the the votes from comments down below and then also the poll that I'm putting in this Facebook group So the the three that I've picked out to get things rolling are heart and knife And I don't know if it's actually heart and knife or it's heart plus knife because it uses a plus sign instead of an ampersand So I'm assuming it's supposed to be heart plus knife But I think it sounds better as if it's heart and knife But anyway the film heart and knife in my opinion Which is a relatively recent film look up the synopsis if you want to know what that is the next one is inferno sticking in the yellow Realm if people want to it is inferno by Dario Argento and the final one is Time Crimes, which is a Spanish film that is currently Streaming on shutter. 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