Mario Bava


6.8 Black Sunday (1960)
6.5 The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)
5.8 Black Sabbath (1963)
6.5 The Whip and the Body (1963)
6.0 Blood and Black Lace (1964)
5.0 Planet of the Vampires (1965)
6.5 Kill Baby Kill (1966)
5.0 Diabolik (1968)
5.0 Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
6.5 Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971)
5.0 Baron Blood (1972)
6.3 Lisa and the Devil (1974)
6.5 Rabid Dogs (1974)
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Mario Bava (Italy, 1914) was a master of horror cinema. He was involved in the making of Italy's first horror movie, I Vampiri (1957), and Italy's first sci-fi movie, La Morte Viene dallo Spazio/ The Day the Sky Exploded (1958).

La Maschera del Demonio/ Black Sunday (1960), based on a Gogol tale,

The Invasori (1961)

La Ragazza che Sapeva Troppo/ The Girl Who Knew Too Much/ The Evil Eye (1963) is a Hitchcock-ian "giallo".

I tre Volti della Paura/ Black Sabbath (1963) collects three shorts.

La Frusta e il Corpo/ The Whip and the Body (1963) is sadomaso horror.

Sei Donne per l'Assassino/ Blood and Black Lace (1964) is the film that invented the "slasher" movie.

Terrore nello Spazio/ Planet of the Vampires (1965)

Operazione Paura/ Kill Baby Kill (1966)

I Coltelli del Vendicatore/ Knives of the Avenger (1966)

Diabolik (1968) is an adaptation of Angela and Luciana Giussani's comic strip "Diabolik".

Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)

Ecologia del Delitto/ Reazione a Catena/ Twitch of the Death Nerve/ A Bay of Blood (1971)

Gli Orrori del Castello di Norimberga/ Baron Blood (1972)

El Diablo se Lleva a los Muertos/ The Devil Takes the Dead/ Lisa and the Devil (1974)

Cani Arrabbiati/ Rabid Dogs (1974)

La Casa dell'Esorcismo (1975)

His last film was Shock (1977).

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