A Blade in the Dark

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A Blade in the Dark/House of the Dark Stairway/Casa con la scala nel uio, La
Directed by	Lamberto Bava
Produced by	Lamberto Bava/Mino Loy+Luciano Martino(uncredited producers)
Written by	Elisa Briganti/Dardano Sacchetti
Starring	Andrea Occhipinti
Music by	Guido De Angelis/Maurizio De Angelis
Cinematography	Gianlorenzo Battaglia
Editing by	Lamberto Bava
Running time	110 min/France:96 min/ USA:108 min
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
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A Blade in the Dark known (in its original Italian title) as Casa con la scala nel buio, La but also goes by House of the Dark Stairway is a Horror/Giallo/Slasher/Mystery/Splatter that was among such other foreign titles as The New York Ripper & Tenebrae to be branded as video nastys. Containing elements of Psycho & Halloween it was originally conceived and filmed in the style of a four-part, half-hour, suspense mini-series for Italian TV with one killing at the end of each part. However it was instead turned into a theatrical movie since TV networks rejected such material as being far too violent for airing on network television.

1 Synopsis
2 Cast
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Movie composer Bruno is commissioned to write a theme tune to a horror movie surrounding a supposed real life psycho...no sooner than he does so than residents and those in his life start disappearing only to turn up mutilated...wha's going on? Could it have something to do with the motion picture he's working on that connects itself to mysterious Villa resident Linda

[edit] Cast

Actor / Actress	Character
Andrea Occhipinti	Bruno
Michele Soavi	Tony Rendina/Linda
Lara Naszinsky	Julia
Fabiola Toledo	Angela
Anny Papa	Sandra
Stanko Molnar	Giovanni
Valeria Cavalli	Katia
Giovanni Frezza (uncredited)	Little Blond Boy in Film
Marco Vivio (uncredited)	First Little Boy in Film