Five Dolls for an August Moon

Five Dolls for an August Moon
(5 bambole per la luna d'agosto)

Original Italian poster
Directed by Mario Bava
Produced by Luigi Alessi
Written by Mario di Nardo
Starring William Berger
Edwige Fenech
Renato Rossini
Editing by Mario Bava
Release date(s) 1970
Running time 78 min.
Country Italy
Language Italian

Five Dolls for an August Moon (Italian: 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto) is a 1970 Italian thriller film directed by Mario Bava, from a screenplay by Mario di Nardo. The music is written by the Italian film composer Piero Umiliani

It concerns a group of people who have gathered on a remote island for fun and relaxation. One of the guests is a chemist who has created a revolutionary new chemical process, and several of the attending industrialists are eager to buy it from him. Business problems become a moot point, however, when someone begins killing off the attendees one-by-one.

Release

This was one of Bava's most obscure films, and did not receive an official American release until 2001, when Image Entertainment distributed it on DVD. After the Image disc went out of print, Anchor Bay re-released as part of the Mario Bava Collection Volume 2 box set on October 23rd, 2007.

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