| Murder in a Blue World | |
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| Directed by | Eloy de la Iglesia |
| Screenplay by | Eloy de la Iglesia José Luis Garci Antonio Fons Antonio Artero George Lebourg |
| Produced by | José Frade |
| Starring | Sue Lyon Christopher Mitchum Jean Sorel |
| Cinematography | Francisco Fraile |
| Edited by | José Luis Matesanz |
| Music by | Georges Garvarentz |
Production companies | José Frade Producciones Cinematográficas S.A. Intercontinental Productions[2] |
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Running time | 100 min |
| Countries | Spain France[1] |
| Language | English |
| Box office | ESP 25,198,396 (Spain) |
Murder in a Blue World (Spanish: Una gota de sangre para morir amando, lit. A Drop of Blood to Die Loving; French: Le bal du vaudou, lit. The Voodoo Ball) is a 1973 Spanish-French dystopian science fiction/crime/horror film directed by Eloy de la Iglesia and starring Sue Lyon, Christopher Mitchum and Jean Sorel.
The plot follows a respectable nurse, who seduces young men, takes them home to bed, listens to the post-coital beating of their hearts, and then stabs them to death with a surgical scalpel. The film takes some cues from Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange to the extent of being released on UK VHS as Clockwork Terror.[3]
- ^ Lázaro-Reboll, Antonio (20 November 2012). Spanish Horror Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 131. ISBN 9780748636402. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
- ^ Lázaro-Reboll, Antonio (20 November 2012). Spanish Horror Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 131. ISBN 9780748636402. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
- ^ "Clockwork Terror on Empire Video (United KingdomVHS videotape)". VideoCollector.co.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2015.