
‘When the lights go out, the knife goes in…’
A Blade in the Dark is a 1983 Italian Giallo thriller film about a killer stalking a composer and his female visitors in a secluded villa. The composer is staying at a secluded villa writing the soundtrack score to a horror movie that has an incriminating clue to the killer’s identity.
Directed and edited by Lamberto Bava (Twins; Delirium; Demons and Demons 2; Monster Shark; Macabre) from a story and screenplay co-written by Dardano Sacchetti and Elisa Briganti.