A masked figure brutally murders the models of an Italian fashion house in search of a scandalous diary filled with intimate secrets.

It’s fashion week, divas! Don your Louboutins and tighten your Versace stab vests because we’re headed to Rome for a terrifying technicolor turning point in Italian horror.

Filmmakers in early 60s Italy birthed a new film genre called ‘giallo’, inspired by cheap paperback pulp novels that shared similar themes of murder mystery, psychological horror, eroticism, gloved and masked slayers. You understand. BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (1965) is a deeply stylish early entry into the giallo movement, portraying a story of lascivious secrets inside a haute couture fashion house and the violent measures a mysterious killer will take to protect them.

Nobody has ever looked better than the bouffant adorned women chased through the extravagant quarters of their fashion house, always framed perfectly, awash with strobing neon light. Even the killer cant help but look fierce in their featureless mask, fedora and trench coat, resembling a mannequin as they strangle, scorch and drown the statuesque models of Cristiana Haute Couture. 

So throw on your Sunday bests and accessorize your October watchlist with this colorful classic thriller whose lurid legacy remains as vivid as its aesthetic.