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'''''[[Reazione a Catena]]''''' (also known as ''Bay Of Blood'', ''Twitch Of The Death Nerve'', ''Ecologia Del Delitto''...) is a 1971 horror film by Mario Bava. Designed as a comeback film after he lost his distribution deal with American International Pictures, Bava effectively created a film that has served as the blueprint for the Bodycount/Slasher genre of horror, with many of its sequences copied by other horror films (most notably ''[[Friday the 13 th (Film)|Friday The 13th]]'')

The film's plot is a convoluted "[[Who Done It]]", as people begin dying left and right during the course of a long weekend at the lakeside home of an elderly heiress. There are multiple murderers at work, as a slew of shady characters (and a quartet of sex-obsessed teens) end up dying in horrific fashion. There is also a [[Surprise Ending]] that will shock you...

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This film provides examples of:

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: And does.
* [[Creepy Child]]: The  {{spoiler|killers'}} kids.
* [[Don't Go in The Woods]]: Or swimming in the bay. Or in the cabin nearby. Or... anywhere, really. Just drive away.
* [[Death By Sex]]: Two kids. Impaled. [[Friday the 13 th (Film)|But in this one the girl is on top]].
* [[Gorn]]
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Averted.
*  {{spoiler|[[Greed Kills]]: Literally.}}
* [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]]: The two boffing kids and  {{spoiler|Simone}}.
* [[Kill Em All]]: And HOW.
* [[Machete Mayhem]]
* [[Mind Screw]]: The ending. And most of the movie.
* [[Peek a Boo Corpse]]:  {{spoiler|[[The Killer Becomes the Killed|The Count]]}} to one of the teen girls.  {{spoiler|She doesn't last long after it, though.}}
* [[The Killer Becomes the Killed]]:  {{spoiler|The Count}},  {{spoiler|Simone}} and  {{spoiler|the greedy parents}} in the finale.
* [[Video Nasties|Video Nasty]]
* [[Youth Is Wasted On the Dumb]]: Some can say this of the four young people who stop [[Incredibly Lame Pun|for a quick death]].

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