A Blade in the Dark (1983) 4K Restoration
Director: Lamberto Bava Run Time: 109 min. Rating: Unrated Release Year: 1983
Starring: Andrea Occhipinti, Anny Papa, Fabiola Toledo, Michele Soavi, Valéria Cavalli
Country: Italy
Language: English, Italian
About the film:
An up-and-coming film composer named Bruno moves into a secluded villa in hopes of getting some extra creative inspiration for the horror movie he’s just been hired to write the score for. However, life soon starts to imitate art when a vicious killer begins bumping off anyone and everyone who happens to pay him a visit! As each death leaves more and more clues and the pool of suspects begins to grow, Bruno begins to suspect that the film he’s been working on may itself be the key to unlocking the mystery and stopping the carnage.
“’A Blade in the Dark’ is an underrated offering into the giallo film canon.”
—Hayley Roberts, Love Horror
The first major international hit from director Lamberto Bava, A Blade in the Dark (1983) is a classically structured giallo with a gory slasher twist.
About the filmmaker:
Lamberto Bava is an Italian filmmaker who began his career as an assistant director for his father Mario Bava. His most well-known and commercially successful film was Demons (1985), which received such wide international success that it spawned a sequel which he returned to direct, Demons 2 (1986). Bava made his solo directorial debut with the film Macabre (1980), a horror film loosely based on the events of a real-life murder in New Orleans. This debut film was not a commercial success, leading Bava back into assistant directing for the iconic film Tenebrae (1982), directed by Dario Argento. In 1983, Bava returned to solo directing for the violent mystery-thriller A Blade in the Dark (1983).
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