Showing posts with label Italian Horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italian Horror. Show all posts

Friday, October 18, 2013

Review: Kill, Baby... Kill!

Kill, Baby... Kill (1966)

Kill, Baby... Kill! is another gothic chiller from Italian director Mario Bava, the second of his I've reviewed this month. A doctor is called to a village in the country where superstition still rules every day life. He is there to perform an autopsy on a dead woman who has died under mysterious circumstances. The villagers protest to this and see it as a mutilation of her corpse. The doctor is equally aghast at the superstitious practices of the villagers as they try to ward of the ghost of the baroness's daughter. The movie has a great feel to it with rich sets and awesome cinematography with some pretty inventive scenes, but I don't want to spoil them for you. Assuming you like Italian Horror or Vincent Price style gothic theater than this is a great popcorn flick for a dark and stormy night.

Review: Black Sunday

Black Sunday (1960)
Mario Bava's atmospheric, gothic chiller with a gruesome streak. A nobleman's family is haunted by the curse of a witch sentenced to a torturous death. Super atmospheric, the movie captures the feel of the classic Universal horror films as well as delivering the kind of occult torture scenes and sadistic religious inquisitors that seemed to be popular in the 60's. I thought the film was pretty stylish, the haunted castle the film takes place in feels huge, like something from Castlevania. Mario Bava always incorporates really great visuals in his movies, so even if you can't dig the dubbed dialogue you could add your own soundtrack of some doom metal or some other dark tunes and imbibe in your favorite way and still have a good time.