Blood Bath (2016): Cast & Plot

In an unnamed town, a young art student and aspiring model named Daisy leaves a club after a heated argument with her beatnik boyfriend, Max. As the night drains away, she walks the empty streets, drawn to a gallery window where grim, unsettling paintings catch the eye. The artist behind the canvases, Antonio Sordi, happens to be nearby, stopping to inspect his own work as if searching for someone he might have lost. After a cordial, almost cinematic exchange, they retreat to Sordi’s studio tucked beneath an ancient bell tower. The mood is intimate yet unnerving, and Sordi persuades the young woman to pose for him, the room heavy with the scent of oil paints and candle wax.