YMMV / Blood and Black Lace

• Complete Monster: Massimo Morlacchi is a greedy fashion modeling agent who murdered a wealthy Count and staged his death as an accident, seducing and secretly marrying his widow and making her his accomplice. When his crime was discovered and used as blackmail leverage by one of his agency's models, Massimo brutally strangles her to death. Learning of the existence of a diary in which she documented the crime amongst other dark secrets of her co-workers, he murders two other models who had attempted to steal it to hide their own vices, the first by gouging out her eyes, and the second by shoving her face-first into a hot stove. When the police start closing in, Massimo has his wife kill a fifth model, stage the death as a suicide, and leave the killer's costume behind to frame the dead woman. She does, so, but as she makes her escape through a balcony, he arrives and impersonates a police officer, hoping to startle her into falling to her death and leaving him heir to her fortune.
• Vindicated by History: Was a flop when released in Italy. Now it is regarded as a classic just like another Bava Film, A Bay of Blood.

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