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Ecologia del delitto (1971)
Country of Origin: Italy
Year of Production: 1971
Running Times: 75 mins (France)
76 mins (UK; Italy - cut version) 80 mins 35 secs
(UK - on Redemption) 80 mins 54 sec (UK - on Hokushin)
82 mins (Germany) 90 mins (Italy)
Format: Technicolor 35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Nuova Linea Cinematografica
Producer: Giuseppe Zaccariello
Production Manager: Ferdinando Franchi
SCRIPT
Script: Franco Barberi, Mario Bava, Filippo Ottoni, Carlo Reali, Dardano
Sacchetti, Joseph McLee (rn: Giuseppe Zaccariello)
Story: Dardano Sacchetti, Franco Barberi, Carlo Reali
DIRECTION
Director: Mario Bava
Assistant Director: Lamberto Bava
PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Mario Bava, Antonio Rinaldi
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Carlo Reali
MUSIC
Music: Stelvio Cipriani
SOUND
Dialogue and Post Synchronisation: Gene Luotto
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Carlo Rambaldi
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Sergio Canevari
CAST
Claudine Auger (Renata)
Chris (real name: Cristea) Avram (Frank Ventura)
Laura Betti (Anna Foscatti)
Guido Boccaccini (Mike)
Roberto Bonanni (Bobby)
Isa Miranda (Countess Federica Donati)
Giovanni Nuvoletti (Count Filip Donati)
Luigi Pistilli (Albert)
Anna Maria Rosati (Laura)
Paola Rubens (Denise)
Brigitte Skay (Brunhilda)
Leopoldo Trieste (Paolo Foscatti)
Claudio Volonté (real name: Claudio Camaso) (Simon)
Renato Cestie (young boy)
Nicoletta Elmi (young girl)
SUMMARY
When an ageing heiress is murdered by her greedy
husband out to get her money, it leads to a whole series of increasingly
brutal killings. Relatives and family friends descend on the woman's
house with their own agendas, most of which involve the wholesale slaughter
of their rivals.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Hugely influential (just look at Halloween
(1978) and, more pertinently, Friday the 13th (1980)
for proof of that), Ecologia del delitto is one of
Bava's best latter day efforts, a relentlessly grisly saga of familial
in-fighting and mass murder. After the lacklustre Cinque
bambole per la luna d'agosto
(1970) it was a major return to form for Bava, full of visual invention
and sick humour. It's misanthropy (there isn't a single likeable character
in the whole film) paved the way for his bleak and hope-sapping masterpiece
Cani arrabbiati (1974).
AVAILABILITY
Belgium
Video Distributor: American Video
France
Video Distributor: American Video; Hollywood Video
Greece
Video Distributor: Video Cronos
Italy
Video Distributor: CVR Realvision
Japan
Video Distributor: Toho Video
UK
Video Distributor: Hokushin (80 mins 54 sec); Redemption (80 mins 35
sec - cut by 43 sec)
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Hallmark
Video Distributor: Gorgon Video; MPI
DVD Distributor: Simitar (7654)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Germany
Rating: banned
UK
Rating: banned; 18 (cut by 43 seconds)
USA
Rating: R
TIMELINE
1971
September
8: Italy - theatrical release
1973
April
3: France - theatrical release
1980
March
Day Unknown: UK - theatrical release
1999
November
16: USA - DVD release (Simitar (7654))
POSTER TAGS
Terror Flows Deep
diabolical! fiendish! savage...
You may not walk away from this one!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Antefatto - early title
Bahia de Sangre - Spanish title
Baia Sangrenta - Portugese title
La baie sanglante - French and Belgian
title
A Bay of Blood - USA title
Before the Fact - Ecology of a Crime
Den Blodige Bugt - Danish title
Bloodbath - UK video title
Bloodbath Bay of Blood
Bloodbath Bay of Death
Carnage - UK title
Im Blutrausch des Satans - West German title
Last House on the Left Part II - USA re-release title
New House on the Left
Odore di carne - pre-production title
Reazione a catena - shooting title
Twitch of the Death Nerve - US title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Burning, The (1981)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D (1982)
Halloween (1978)
Halloween II (1981)
Last House on
the Left (1972)
Ultimo treno della notte, L' (1975)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Don't Scream It's Only a Movie (1989)
Mad Ron's Prevue's from Hell (1987)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
European Trash Cinema vol.2 no.6 pp.10-11
(USA)
review
Halls of Horror 27 p.16 (UK)
note
Is It Uncut? 5 p.35 (UK)
review
Starburst 66 pp.40-41 (UK)
review
Video Watchdog no.32 pp.10-11 (USA)
review
Video Week 5 January 1987 p.8 (UK)
note
BOOKS
Aurum Encyclopedia of Film: Horror p.233
credits, review
Blood and Black Lace pp.3, 6
illustrated credits, synopsis, review (by Adrian Luther-Smith)
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies
1991 - 1992 p.117
credits, review
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.56
credits
The Seduction of the Gullible (2nd edition)
p.29
illustrated credits, synopsis, review (by John Martin)
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
mansions, bays, disabilities, hanging, inheritances,
serial killers, children, mutilations, decapitations, strangulation,
families, machetes, butterflies, sex, teenagers, impalement, spears
Last Updated:
22 October, 2008
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