The Haunting in Connecticut

Essentially a substandard rip-off of The Amityville Horror, this spook house drama should be condemned.

"...on snips and snatches of Lucio Fulci's The Beyond, Mario Bava's Shock, Alejandro Amenábar's The Others, and, of course,..."

March 27, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Orphanage

Although Guillermo Del Toro is the producer, this new Spanish horror film is derivative and not on par with Del Toro's spooky childhood stories.

"...chief among them The Omen, Alejandro Amenábar's The Others, Mario Bava's Kill, Baby … Kill!, and at least a..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

300

Both Frank Miller's comic about the legendary battle of Thermopylae and Zack Snyder's cinematic adaptation are bloodthirsty affairs, awash in spectacle.

"...a terrific, rumbling score by Tyler Bates. Not since Mario Bava's Hercules in the Haunted World has Greco-Roman movie-house..."

March 9, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Tale of Two Sisters

Dread and mystery are the hallmarks of this South Korean psychological thriller.

"...to the supersaturated, mind-bending giallos of Dario Argento and Mario Bava, and on the face of it there’s also..."

March 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

Black Sunday

"...aka La Maschera del demonio D: Mario Bava (1960) with Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Ivo Garrani,..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Kidnapped

"...Directed by: Mario Bava. Starring: Don Backy, George Eastman, Maurice Poli, Ricardo..."

July 16, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Mario Bava Collection: Volume 1

"...The Mario Bava Collection: Volume 1..."

May 11, 2007 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

"...at I Love Video's Airport location.) -Joey O'Bryan THE MARIO BAVA COLLECTION..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Arts Feature

Scanlines

"...The Mario Bava Collection: Baron Blood and Lisa and the Devil...."

Aug. 11, 1995 Arts Feature

Suggested Viewing

"...Hercules in the Haunted World (1961, Mario Bava, starring Christopher Lee)..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes

There's something creepy in this Eurosleaze castle

"...of films riffing on directors like Jean Rollin and Mario Bava, with their psychosexual nightmares that were half art..."

July 8, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dead Silence

A supernatural thriller about a ventriloquist who goes mad, from the team that brought us Saw.

"...Seventies Euro-shocker refracted through a much larger budget than Mario Bava or Paolo Cavara ever had. It also wears..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

CQ

"...others, from Godard to Truffaut, and Roger Vadim to Mario Bava (Dragonfly takes not only Barbarella as its template..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: 'Devil's Pass', 'Die, Monster, Die!', 'The Whip and the Body', 'Birth of the Living Dead'

A modern shocker, two vintage terrors, and a history lesson in zombies

"...the most curious of meldings: Italian S&M gothic auteur Mario Bava and the king of the monsters Christopher Lee...."

Jan. 11, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone

Texas-made luchadores-meets-wire fu playful adventure

"...of photography Amza Moglan drenches the whole adventure in comic-book-splash-page-by-way-of-Mario Bava violets, crimsons, and chartreuses, with the entirety of..."

April 29, 2022 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Obsession: The Killer Looks of Edwige Fenech

Bow before the Queen of Giallo

"...of the most famous filmmakers in the genre, like Mario Bava (Five Dolls for an August Moon), Giuliano Carnimeo..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Screens Column by Sarah Jane

Ouija: Origin of Evil

This horror sequel is vastly superior to its cheesy precursor

"...afterlife like she just wandered in off of a Mario Bava film – is to reveal a cached purse..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crimson Peak

Guillermo del Toro goes Gothic, but falls short

"...of Roger Corman’s mid-Sixties Poe pics, Italian horror auteur Mario Bava’s kaleidoscopic nightmare eye, and the garish Victoriana of..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Unborn

A young woman is possessed by the spirit of her twin brother who never made it to term in this film directed by esteemed horror writer David S. Goyer.

"...sense of menace, despite lifts from the likes of Mario Bava and Jack Clayton's The Innocents. Crib death? Not..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Doomsday

In this UK thriller, the so-called Reaper virus threatens the Isles with extinction.

"...Escape From New York, John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires, The Stand, Damnation Alley,..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Legion

Although this story of ancient Rome offers guilty-pleasure fun, the film is not very inspired or well-conceived.

"...long time in the wilderness since the man behind Mario Bava's arch, pop-art Danger: Diabolik and the infamous sci-fi..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Abandoned

Creepy Eastern European atmospherics encase this horror film, which nevertheless suffers from an anemic script.

"...film, along with nods to early Sam Raimi, late-period Mario Bava (à la Shock), and Dario Argento's crazed and..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Resident Evil

"...sequences are direct steals from Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava, and Michele Soavi, from the clingy black vinyl..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Perfect Blue

"...of the Italian suspense genre first made popular by Mario Bava and later Argento and countless other filmmakers (Brian..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eat Him Up

Reviews of the Italian horror maven's Cat in the Brain, The Beyond, Gates of Hell, and Zombie

"...to speak the unspeakable. He was much more like Mario Bava -- he had more atmosphere in his movies,..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Beyond

A woman inherits a hotel that was built over a gate to hell. Man, I hate it when that happens.

"...The Beyond an atmospheric tale of terror to rival Mario Bava's best work, though Fulci always opts to take..."

June 12, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scan Lines

"...aka Six Women for the Assassin D: Mario Bava (1964) starring Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok...."

Aug. 1, 1997 Screens Feature

'Tis the Season

Something wicked this way screens

"...a resounding "duh," and you have found yourself in Mario Bava's Lisa and the Devil, a typical giallo tale..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

DVDanger: The Midnight After

Pure, raw WTF from Hong Kong, plus Rabid Dogs

"...It’s essentially a remake of horror auteur Mario Bava's long-lost first foray into crime drama. That had..."

June 25, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest 2015: "The Mill at Calder's End"

Rod puppetry and Gothic horror resurrected

"...KM: Yes, his Poe films, and Hammer films, and Mario Bava. That's how I approached Barbara Steele, who was..."

Sept. 28, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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