A Bay of Blood
(1971)
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A Bay of Blood
(1971)
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| Claudine Auger | ... |
Renata
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| Luigi Pistilli | ... |
Albert
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Claudio Camaso | ... |
Simon
(as Claudio Volonté)
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Anna Maria Rosati | ... |
Laura
(as Anna M. Rosati)
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Chris Avram | ... |
Frank Ventura
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Leopoldo Trieste | ... |
Paolo Fossati
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Laura Betti | ... |
Anna Fossati
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Brigitte Skay | ... |
Brunhilda
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| Isa Miranda | ... |
Countess Federica Donati
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Paola Montenero | ... |
Denise
(as Paola Rubens)
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Guido Boccaccini | ... |
Duke
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Roberto Bonanni | ... |
Robert
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Giovanni Nuvoletti | ... |
Count Filippo Donati
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An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
A Bay of Blood aka Twitch of the Death Nerve is something of an endurance feat that seems more interesting for its influence on the splatter movie genre (in particular the Friday the 13th series) than as a film. It's light on plot for a giallo, being little more than a collection of gruesome sudden deaths, some, like the opening murder of a woman in a wheelchair, imaginative, others less so, all related to various unpleasant characters out to control the rather grotty looking bay of the title to either redevelop it or preserve its natural beauty. The plot is largely thrown away in a series of flashbacks in the last couple of reels, but seems little more than an excuse for the killings, which are exercised with surprisingly little atmosphere: until the finale there's no real build up or suspense, just multiple murders from multiple murderers. There's also surprisingly little flair to it all, leaving a film that's not much better than the very average splatter movie. Still, at least there's some fun to be had from a duplicitous lawyer being dubbed in the American version by someone doing what sounds like a Gregory Peck impersonation.