Human Monsters, Genre Hybrids, Movements & Traditions
A Blade in the Dark
1983
Don't Go Down the Stairs.
Directed by Lamberto Bava
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12
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Bruno, an up and coming film composer, has been hired to write the score to a new horror movie. After moving into a secluded villa, life begins to imitate art as a vicious killer starts bumping off anyone and everyone who happens to pay him a visit.
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- Director
- Lamberto Bava
- Written by
- Dardano Sacchetti, Elisa Briganti
- Produced by
- Lamberto Bava, Luciano Martino, Mino Loy
- Composers
- Guido De Angelis, Maurizio De Angelis
- Cinematographer
- Gianlorenzo Battaglia
- Editor
- Lamberto Bava
- Origin country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Language
- Italian
- Also known as
- House of the Dark Stairway
- TMDB
- 5.7/10 (131 votes)
- IMDb
- 5.9/10 (4,153 votes)
Released August 6, 1983·La casa con la scala nel buio
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