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Plot summary
Bruno arrives at a secluded villa to compose the score for a horror film, working from the house where the story is set because its director, Sandra, wants the fear of the dark captured on screen. The owner, Tony Rendina, is leaving for his father's rig in Kuwait and asks Bruno to arrange some of his music for a cassette. Giovanni, the groundskeeper, lives in the basement, and Bruno's girlfriend is away in another city for a stage play. Bruno hears that a woman named Linda rented the villa before Tony and went missing after moving out. Katia, a neighbor, leaves behind a diary that mentions a secret about Linda. An unseen visitor takes a box cutter from his studio.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Blade in the Dark (1983)
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- Italian censors found the film too gory to air, and instead of editing it down the producers told director Lamberto Bava to re-cut it into a theatrical feature, which meant blowing the 16mm print up to 35mm.
- Producer Mino Loy commissioned the film for Italian television as four 30-minute segments, and Bava's plan was to end each segment with a shocking murder.
