A Bay of Blood (AKA Twitch of the Death Nerve) - Blu-Ray - Region Free - [Pre-owned]

A family's murderous battle over some bayfront property is the subject of director Mario Bava's bloody horror-thriller, which many have cited as the grandfather of the modern slasher film. Claudine Auger is the scheming daughter of a murdered Countess; her staged suicide forms the basis of the film's plot. In a seemingly unrelated subplot, four hippies arrive in a dune buggy led by Brigitte Skay, who dances the Shake and swims naked before having her throat hacked open with a machete. Skay's boyfriend has his face chopped with the same machete and the other couple has a spear thrust through their bodies as they make love. All of these murder scenes were imitated in Steve Miner's FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH, PART 2, and the film's style influenced countless American slasher films of the 1970s and '80s. Bava also includes a strangulation by telephone cord, a gory axe decapitation, a man speared to a wall, and five other murders.

*The Film: English-language Version (HD) (84:02) *The Film - Italian-language Version (Upscale) (84:53) Audio Commentary on the English version by Video Watchdog editor Tim Lucas "Argento! Bava! Fulci!: The Giallo Gems of Dardano Sacchetti" 2010 featurette (33:09) "Bava and the Grindhouse: Joe Dante remembers Twitch of the Death Nerve" 2010 featurette (12:24) "Bay of Bava: Shooting a Spaghetti Splatter Classic" 2010 featurette (21:16) Trailers from Hell with Edgar Wright: Carnage (3:56) Trailers from Hell with Edgar Wright: Twitch of the Death Nerve (1:17) Radio spot #1 (set to stills) (1:00) Radio spot #2 (set to stills) (0:28)

Studio: Arrow Video (UK) Run Time: 84,85 mins approx Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number of Discs: 1 Director: Mario Bava Actor: Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Claudio Camaso Region: All Rating: 18