Lamberto Bava and One of the Shockers to Shock the 80's

A Blade in the Dark is a movie about making a movie. More specifically, it is a movie about composing music for a movie. Lamberto Bava is a gorgeous maniac and Bava really wants to share this maniacal vision with you. Art and Life are entangled and if you want to untangle this web you do so at your own risk.

Boys will be boys and sometimes its ok to be called a female, say, for instance, when you have to go down a dark flight of stairs to chase a baseball to prove the degree of male-itude you possess and all you hear is your own heart-rate pulsing as you slowly walk down the corridor.

I'd say that's a good time to throw in the cards and consider yourself a girl. Movies about movies can give us a different sort of appreciation for movies and movie-making. We as an audience have so much more we can think about when the movie we are watching is a thriller about making a thriller movie.

The director on-stage can come and tell us exactly what is about to happen and why, including what the genre-specific techniques are, and its justified. I guess this can be a sort of cop-out but if its done well then something about it is attractive. It become a movie that tells us what to expect and why, and then it still creeps the hell out of you.

The plot is simple but the movie is creepy. What we have here is a music-composer who needs to compose some music for an upcoming movie. He isolates himself in a large and creepy house, intentionally reminiscent of the movie which is being shot, and all sorts of fun and weird things start happening to him.

Is it the doing of the director, the character's boss who has approved of his isolated location, or is it the doing of the creepy grounds-keeper? Or is it worse? Or simply more amusing?

Watch this movie and laugh and enjoy it. Lamberto Bava takes you on a wild ride which would have been all the more wild in the 80's yet still holds merit today. One of the death's is the most artistic murder I've ever encountered, I'll let you guess which one.