Mario Bava - Reazione a catena AKA A Bay of Blood (1971)
Thanks to his orgiastic feasts of gothic horror and comic book pop art, no one ever described Mario Bava as a restrained director. However, few could have anticipated the unbridled ferocity of his trendsetting 1971 shocker, Reazione a catena (Chain Reaction), which turned up in Europe under such titles as Antefatto, A Bay of Blood, and Ecologia del Delitto before terrorizing U.S. drive-ins for years as Last House - Part II and, most unforgettably, Twitch of the Death Nerve. Here Bava essentially tears the horror genre apart from the ground up, dispensing with linear plotting or realistic characterization in favor of a mechanical, devious catalog of murders, all served up with the tricky, sumptuous photography which gives his films their unforgettable artistic stamp. Even more than his earlier Blood and Black Lace, this is the body count movie par excellence.
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