Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970)

Original title

5 bambole per la luna d'agosto

Directed by

Mario Bava

Genre

giallo

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 141 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of people gather on a remote island for a weekend getaway. A chemist among them has invented a valuable new process, and industrialists want to buy it. Then someone starts killing the guests one by one.

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What happens

Five Dolls for an August Moon (Italian: 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto) is a 1970 Italian giallo film directed by Mario Bava. It concerns a group of people who have gathered on a remote island for fun and relaxation. One of the guests is a chemist who has created a revolutionary new chemical process, and several of the attending industrialists are eager to buy it from him. Business problems become moot when someone begins killing off the attendees one by one. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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