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Chain reaction
"Bloodbath", " Ecology of a Crime " and " Chain
Reaction " are just some of the titles used for this film by Mario Bava of
1971, a movie that challenge to the record of film with the highest number of names.
Always
against to the numerous titles (and versions) or to those too
easy, this time we have to think about it and we have to thank the three
mentioned in the opening, because they explain a movie too
complicated, so complicated, that the second vision doesn't dissolve all doubts.
The
human being in his wickedness, in his mistakes, triggering a chain reaction of ferocious murders, in an ecology of
the crime that the free world (a small part) of unscrupulous people . Here, as the three above titles explain to us, in our opinion, one of the
greatest masterpieces of the great Mario Bava, a story where all are evil, children too!
A
masterpiece , despite a plot that is too elaborate and an ending
that many dislikee but that we think it works, bringing an extra
touch of black humor and surreal auro, already present in all the work.
Aesthetics
is thebetter thing of this violent movie, so violent that for some
Christopher Lee would have left disgusted watching it, and so
violent that it is one of the favorite films of Dario Argento (as well
as many other directors ) that he receives from a projectionist friend a copy of a film, shortly before the release in theaters. Copy that he still retains.
Where is the border between truth and legend is difficult to say, but it is normal
that a legendary movie, who have an important part inthe
history of cinema arise stories. A movie famous, for its innovations, for its beauty
and for having pioneered the slasher and of course more than inspired (we can say that copy a lot) "Friday The 13th " .
Mario
Bava put no limits to ideas, but seems he has some in the budget, placing the
story, simply, in a bay and working well as alwayswith the things
available. He works also for the photography, for the story and screenplay, written in
collaboration with several authors, including (especially) a quite
rookie Dardano Sacchetti who worked little time before to "Cat o 'nine tails
." There
is no doubt that he knew how to choose well his partners, as already
seen in other works, because in addition to the well-known writer there
are the great Stelvio Cipriani to the music and an equally valuable
Carlo Rambaldi, which with his special effects creates the plus of film.
The
rest is in the hands of a Bava more than inspired, which follows, with
zoom and subjective, the crimes that are the core of "Chain
Reactio " . A
though movie with many squirts of blood, that horrified (but
doesn't reach for us the levels of Lee) and that hits the mark.
What transforms people in the worst being in the universe? Easy, money, inheritance. Issues
that trigger the chain reaction, which is triggered by the murder of
the Countess Francesca Donati a paraplegic woman. A domino effect knocks or almost anyone enters the story, in a blaze of evil.
To find fault with in this movie, we can say that acting it's not the best thing. Not bad, but could be better.
Miss
France 1958 Claudine Auger which reached great success with the
participation in the James Bond's film " Thunderball " and
different works in Italian films, plays Renata Donati, daughter
of the rich countess. The
great Luigi Pistilli instead, here is Alberto husband of Renata one of
the main characters of a cast that comes complete with Isa Miranda ,
Chris Avram and the very young Renato Cestiè and Nicoletta Elmi, destined to
play different movies thriller and horror hit in the seventies and share a classromm in a very popular sit-com of the 80's
Fact Sheet
Original Title : Chain Reaction
Alternative
Titles : Bahía de Sangre (Argentina) A Mansão da Morte de Banho Blood, O
Sexo na His Violent Corn Shape (Brazil) , Den blodige Bugt (Denmark) ,
Bahía de sangre (Spain) , La baie sanglante (France) , A
Bay of Blood , Blood Bath Bloodbath , Bloodbath Bay of Death ( UK) ,
Kravgi tromou , O krikos ton eglimaton , Sfagi 'm akrogiali tis Idonis ,
To spiti me ta alysidota eglimata (Greece ), A vér Oble (Hungary) ,
Chain Reaction ,
and so learn to make the bad guys, Ecology of the crime ( Italy ) ,
Chimidoro no irie (Japan) , Krwawy Oboz (Poland) , Lancana reakcija
(Serbia) , Kanli Körfez (Turkey ), A Bay of Blood , Bay of Blood , The
Antecedent , The Last House on the Left , Part II , Twitch of the Death
Nerve , Twitch of the Death Nerve (USA) , Blutrausch des Teufels , Im
Blutrausch des Satans (Germany ), A Bay of Blood , Ecology of a Crime ( international )
Year : 1971
Country: Italy
Directed by: Mario Bava
Cast:
Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli , Claudio Camaso , Anna Maria Rosati
Chris Avram Leopoldo Trieste , Isa Miranda , Renato Cestiè , Nicoletta
Elmi, Laura Betti
Duration : 84 '
Production Company: New Line Film
