SXSW Review: 'The Lords of Salem'

A series of micro-nightmares bolstered by Rob Zombie's style

"...Tenant and Rosemary's Baby to any number of hallucinatory Mario Bava films, and from there to lesser-known fare such..."

March 13, 2013 SXSW Post by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

Cemetery Man

"...episodic horror film would fit in nicely with Lamberto Bava's Demons films; indeed, it was released at one time..."

July 2, 1999 Screens Feature

Start Your Modems!

The Joy of B-Movie Websites

"...by Barbara Steele's wild-eyed, nail-pocked face from the 1960 Mario Bava classic Black Sunday. Though not a "cult movie"..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Fantasia Review: Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin

Inside the mind and art of France's genius of decay

"...impact. With so much analysis of his peers like Mario Bava and Jesús Franco, Orchestrator of Storms is not..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Panic Fest 2022: The History of Metal and Horror

"You got gore in my riffs!" "You got riffs in my gore!"

"...progenitors of earth-shattering riffage, took their name from a Mario Bava film about an undead witch enacting her revenge..."

May 1, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Mohawk

Ted Geoghegan on blood and lessons in his historical drama

"...Stephen King and arcane New England. Mario Bava and bloody Catholic angst. Every horror auteur has..."

April 19, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What’cha Watchin’?

Account Executive Marisa Mirabal gets in the Halloween spirit

"...1963 horror film is a low-budget anthology directed by Mario Bava. A certain heavy metal band appropriated their name..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Screens Column by Marisa Mirabal

Marc Savlov’s Top 10 Films of 2016

"...Witchy proto-feminism never looked so alluring, or so colorful. Mario Bava would be proud. Best Director..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: The Hallow

There’s something evil in the woods

"...of social media with the unrelenting claustrophobia of early Mario Bava, and the social commentary of Mean Girls. Attempt..."

April 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Wave 2: The Martian, The Witch, and More

New Ridley Scott flick, plus dozens more added to fest

"...on a nightmarish road trip in this remake of Mario Bava’s near-lost Euro-crime nasty. The River D: Jamie Dagg..."

Aug. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Frightmare', 'The Flesh and Blood Show'

Redemption resurrects the legacy of terror maestro Pete Walker

"...straight out of Five Dolls for an August Moon-era Mario Bava. He embraces the theatricality and ridiculousness of the..."

March 23, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Housecore Horror Majordomo – Phil Anselmo

Pantera/Down icon talks tape trading and terror

"...got to show Lucio Fulci, we’ve got to show Mario Bava, we’ve got to show elements of horror...."

Oct. 24, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch

'All in the Family: The Complete Series'

"...a Tolstoy short that had previously been retrofitted by Mario Bava in the anthology film Black Sabbath. For our..."

Oct. 30, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

He Fought for Our Right to Indie Cinema [Updated]

R.I.P Beastie Boy/filmmaker Adam Yauch

"...ever shot, and the second of which riffs on Mario Bava's seminal super-anti-hero epic Danger: Diabolik. Dig in, and..."

May 7, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Our Bloody Valentine

Movie makeup artist Matt Valentine reps Austin on SyFy's reality competition show Face Off

"...costumes to terrify. It was a candy-coated corruption, part Mario Bava, part Dr. Seuss, and Valentine seemed an unlikely..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Hellraisers

How classic horror movies made misfits out of these rockers

"...USA, Danzig's much-maligned feline foray be damned. We dig Mario Bava year-round, we can name-check Ardeth Bay, and we've..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Vamping on an Old Folk Myth

Strigoi's surprising take on bloodsuckers in post-Communist Romania

"...have to go back to Boris Karloff's turn in Mario Bava's Black Sabbath to find a more authentically Eastern..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Scary Stories for the Thinking Man

Director Guillermo del Toro keeps company with the undead in two new films, Blade 2 and The Devil's Backbone.

"...family. There was a great story by Gogol that Mario Bava filmed as part of Black Sabbath, with Boris..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)

It's not high art, but Black Christmas is a spare, efficient fright flick.

"...accounts intended as a sequel to Black Christmas) and Mario Bava's Bay of Blood (1971), this modest Canadian production..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Screens Review

Short Cuts

"...Texas Union Theatre's week-long screening of Italian cult director Mario Bava's rarely shown 1968 oddity of super-criminal psychedelia Danger:..."

July 4, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

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