Eva Bartok
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Eva Bartok in The Gamma People (1956)
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6 donne per l'assassino (1964)
AKA Blood and Black Lace
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Eva Bartok
Sei donne per l'assassino
Mario Bava, 1964
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Recently watched: Italian horror maestro Mario Bava’s slasher movie Blood and Black Lace (1964). Tagline: “A fashion house of glamorous models becomes a terror house of blood!” A sadistic masked and gloved serial killer is relentlessly stalking and murdering his way through the fashion models of the chic haute couture salon run by ultra-rich designer Cristina (Eva Bartok) and her lover Max (Cameron Mitchell). (Picture a procession of fiercely elegant women wearing cocktail dresses with impeccable beehive hairdos getting gruesomely murdered one by one). I’m no expert on Bava - the only other film of his I’ve seen is Black Sunday (1960) with cult movie queen Barbara Steele – but wow, what a stylist! From the credits to the white-knuckle finale, Bava envelopes you in a supremely alluring vision with the soundtrack (Latin exotica, heavy on the bongos), costumes, baroque sets and lighting (characters are routinely bathed in fuchsia or green neon, even when that light source makes no sense). Perhaps inevitably, there are vivid splashes of red: an incriminating leather-bound diary, handbags, telephones - and of course - plumes of blood. The victims’ grisly deaths still pack a genuinely nasty jolt. (As Slant magazine put it, “The killings in Blood and Black Lace are still disturbing yet have the vitality of pop art”). An additional bonus: the juicy overripe performances from Hollywood’s Cameron Mitchell and Hungary’s Eva Bartok, both veterans of European co-productions. (The same year, Mitchell starred opposite Jayne Mansfield in the truly wild German exploitation flick Dog Eat Dog – what a career!).
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Remembering giallo icon and Blood and Black Lace star, Eva Bartok, on the anniversary of her date of birth.
R.I.P. (1927 - 1998)
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Blood and Black Lace (1964)
[Sei Donne per L'assassino]
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Hungarian actress, Eva Bartok 1950s
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Eva Bartok
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6 donne per l'assassino (1964) - Spanish Herald
AKA Blood and Black Lace, Six Women for the Murderer
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Eva Bartok : Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics (18 June 1927[3] – 1 August 1998), known professionally as Eva Bartok, was a Hungarian-British actress. She began acting in films in 1950 and her last credited appearance was in 1966. She acted in more than 40 American, British, German, Hungarian, French and Israeli films. She is best known for appearances in Blood and Black Lace, The Crimson Pirate, Operation Amsterdam, and Ten Thousand Bedrooms. Via Wikipedia
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