Blood and Black Lace (1964)

This is it. Dripping with style in many ways still unmatched, Mario Bava's 1964 classic Blood and Black Lace is the flick that launched a genre: giallo! When a model working at a high class fashion house is murdered, it sets in motion a chain of deadly events as a diverse group of eccentric and suspicious characters scramble to find out just who the culprit is before they get picked off next. Along with Psycho, perhaps no movie contributed more to the development of the modern horror film than this one. Aside from having some of the most sumptuous color photography you will ever see, Blood and Black Lace is a textbook example of how to create atmosphere. But above all, it is a chilling and thrilling who-done-it (can you figure out who did it? I did!) that one almost wishes could go on forever.