Finding the first slasher movie might be a difficult task, but finding the first, most inspiring film with the rules of a slasher movie is not that difficult. That trophy belongs to Mario Bava and his Blood And Black Lace movie. There are tons of elements that future directors would imitate from that movie when they were making their own slasher movie. The vibrant colors, the chilling yet very stylish suit, gloves and mask of the killer, the lighting, the body count and the twisted, evil story that it unfolds slowly, building a highly intriguing murder mystery. Blood And Black Lace is a memorably atmospheric movie and a movie that takes the production design as a character of the film. The set is truly remarkable from the red dolls till the houses and the red blood making a contradiction with the pale white body of a woman, Blood And Black Lace is a stupendous exercise in cinematic form. Although made in 1964 the film hasn't aged a day and it is still an example of horror cinema where the elegant and the nasty are being put in the same picture only to produce one of the greatest genre films of all time. A true masterpiece that is somehow underrated by mainstream audience due to its time that came out. Truth says that Blood And Black Lace is much more effective, beautiful, graceful, frightening and menacing than most contemporary movies are. Truth says that Blood And Black Lace is one of those movies that we critics have the obligation of putting them again in the first line. Because it deserves it by being a memorable early slasher movie with visuals that seem to be even now that we are speaking irreplaceable.
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