A Blade in the Dark

Infobox Film
name = A Blade in the Dark/House of the Dark Stairway/Casa con la scala nel uio, La


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director = Lamberto Bava
producer = Lamberto Bava/Mino Loy+Luciano Martino(uncredited producers)
writer = Elisa Briganti/Dardano Sacchetti
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starring = Andrea Occhipinti
music = Guido De Angelis/Maurizio De Angelis
cinematography = Gianlorenzo Battaglia
editing = Lamberto Bava
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runtime = 110 min/France:96 min/ USA:108 min
country = Italy
language = Italian
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imdb_id = 0085303

"A Blade in the Dark" known (in its original Italian title) as "Casa con la scala nel buio, La" but also goes by "House of the Dark Stairway" is a Horror/Giallo/Slasher/Mystery/Splatter that was among such other foreign titles as The New York Ripper & Tenebrae to be branded as video nastys. Containing elements of Psycho & Halloween it was originally conceived and filmed in the style of a four-part, half-hour, suspense mini-series for Italian TV with one killing at the end of each part. However it was instead turned into a theatrical movie since TV networks rejected such material as being far too violent for airing on network television.

ynopsis

Movie composer Bruno is commissioned to write a theme tune to a horror movie surrounding a supposed real-life psycho... no sooner than he does so than residents and those in his life start disappearing only to turn up mutilated... what's going on? Could it have something to do with the motion picture he's working on that connects itself to mysterious Villa resident "Linda"?

Cast

ee also

*Horror-of-demonic
*Psychological horror
*Horror-of-personality
*Exploitation film
*Giallo films
*Splatter
*Slasher films

External links

*imdb title|id=0085303|title=Casa con la scala nel buio, La

Slasher films
Splatter