I’m going to say a potentially incendiary thing: Mario Bava is the best underrated director of all time. The Italian cinematographer turned director was one of the most prolific in his era. Though he ...

BAMcinématek’s recent Mario Bava series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Rose Cinemas showcased the work of a wonderfully talented and overlooked filmmaker whose career influenced some of the ...

On this day in horror history, Mario Bava’s A Bay of Blood (aka Twitch of the Death Nerve) was released in 1971. Directed by Bava from a screenplay he co-wrote with Giuseppe Zaccariello, Filippo ...

Though there had been earlier efforts, like Ealing Studios’s Dead of Night from 1945, the horror anthology film came into its own in the 1960s with titles like Kobayashi Masaki’s Kwaidan and the ...

This is not to say that Bava is immune to serious study—the critic Tim Lucas, for example, has made the hermeneutics of Bava something like his life’s work—but most subjects will submit to delirium ...

In the years since I slowly accrued one film after another. The double-whammy of BLACK SUNDAY and BLACK SABBATH cemented my love for his style, and I could see the obvious impact his films had on the ...

Italian directors have always had a penchant for jumping on the cinematic bandwagon whenever a popular film is released. And we aren’t talking about just a couple of directors and a couple of films, ...

Rome, Italy, and was the first of a third generation of Italian filmmakers. His grandfather, Eugenio Bava (1886-1966), was a cameraman and optics effects artist during the early days of Italian silent ...

EXCLUSIVE: Mario Bava’s cult crime movie Rabid Dogs is getting an English-Language remake from in-demand Hollywood scribes Samuel Franco and Evan Kilgore. The film’s original producer Alfredo Leone is ...

Italian horror maestro Mario Bava ended his directorial career with Shock, a trippy ghost story that never got the praise it deserved. I’m going to say a potentially incendiary thing: Mario Bava is ...