james1-494-826857 This movie ranks in my top five all time of over 8000 movies I've seen. My other top four hour before the Devil knows your dead with Rochester New York's Philip Seymour Hoffman. Sherlock Holmes smarter brother with Gene Wilder Dom Deluise and Madeline Kahn. No country for old man with Javier Bardem and Lucille fulcis beyond the door and Autopsy from 1975 and Death Laid an Egg from 1968.

Bezenby Just as the giallo was gaining popularity, Mario Bava proves he's way ahead of the pack by turning the genre on its head, then kicking it up and down the street a few times for good measure. This is evident from the first murder of the film. At a moody, almost deserted bay, an old lady in a wheelchair stares out over the water longingly at a small wooden shack. Sighing, she turns to go to bed for the night when a noose is thrown over her head and she's hung from a doorway. A black gloved killer stands above her body, but just to let you know this is a Bava film, the camera pans up to immediately reveal his face, and just to further let you know this is a Bava film, someone kills the killer by stabbing him to death!Most gialli have one killer, some have two, Bay of Blood has at least five or six, all of them with the same intention: to gain ownership of the bay, which would provide them with great wealth. There's the businessman and his girlfriend who have some shady deals going on, then there's the second victim's daughter and her husband (and their kids, who they brought along for some reason), then there's Simon, who is the old lady's son, and likes chewing on raw squid. Innocent bystanders are a local Entomologist and his tarot reading wife, and a bunch of annoying hippies who have turned up to have fun. Bava barely even bothers with any kind of plot for the first hour of this one, and is more interested in turning part of the film into a slasher movie, seven years before Halloween was released. The hippies are first and I'm sure it was a shock back then to see someone receive a giant blade directly to their face, followed shortly by a couple being speared through the back right in the middle of a bit of filthy squeezy. As mentioned everywhere else on the internet, there are a lot of similarities between this film and the first two Friday the 13th films, as well as a lot of similarities between this review and every other review of this film. Eventually the cast is whittled down enough to allow time for some flashbacks that films in the gaps regarding who is doing what to whom and why, and Bava also throws in a 'what the feck?' ending. This is barely a giallo and more of a comedy of the darkest kind about greed.

phanthinga My first experience with giallo movie is Tenebre by Dario Argento but last night I just found out the godfather of giallo genre is Mario Bava so I decide to check out one of his movie and I pick A bay of Blood.like most of giallo afterwards A bay of Blood featuring very beautiful cinematography by Mario himself with many POV shot from the killer and of course the gory kills that soon inspire the slasher genre.To proof how non cliché this movie is a group of teenagers get kill off right away in the most brutal way that even one of the kill later has been later used on Friday the 13th franchise.About the plot I actually really into the mystery but haft way through it turned into a complete mess that I hardly care about.The movie is enjoyable but not that impressive

liambl This film was directed by Italian filmmaker, Mario Bava, who has apparently made other horror films prior to this. This being the first one I have seen of his, I wasn't expecting much from it, except for it to be good, or at least entertaining. So after watching it, was it either of which? Not really, to be honest. I would summarize the premise ... if I knew what the hell it was. It does start off pretty well, but that's only one of the positives. The kill scenes (some of them) are pretty disturbing; however, most (if not all) of them leave no impact whatsoever. I would also add that I found not one character interesting.But what truly aggravated me was each scene with the four supposed teenagers. As soon as they appeared on screen, I assumed that we would get depth out of at least one of them. But nope, they were just there to be murder victims. I would call it pointless, but what pi$$ed me off the most was the lake scene; those who've seen the movie, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You could argue that, because of a scene like that, of course it had to happen. Honestly though, I was really hoping otherwise, specifically that it would lead to something. But again, nope, because wishful thinking's a b*tch. It shouldn't really be a surprise though, as that particular sequence is on the cover of the movie.