Mario Bava
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Mario Bava (July 31, 1914-April 27, 1980) was an Italian director and cinematographer remembered as one of the greatest names from the golden age of Italian horror movies.
[edit] Biography
Mario Bava was born in Sanremo, Liguria.
In 1960 he directed one of the first Italian gothic horror movies of the 1960s: La maschera del demonio (Black Sunday) which made a star out of Barbara Steele. His use of light and dark in black and white movies is widely acclaimed along with his use of colors in films like I tre volti della paura (Black Sabbath) (1963) and La Frusta e il corpo (The Whip and the Body) (1963).
His work has proved very influential: Bava directed what is called the first Italian giallo movie, La ragazza che sapeva troppo (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) (1963), and his 1965 sci-fi horror Terrore nello spazio (Planet of the Vampires) was a key influence on Alien (1979). Diabolik (1968) was one of the world's first comic book adaptations, while 1971's Reazione a catena (also known as Twitch of the Death Nerve & Bay of Blood) is considered to be one of the earliest slasher films.
Mario Bava has a son, Lamberto Bava, who also achieved a movie-directing career.
[edit] Filmography as director
- I Vampiri (1957 uncredited co-direction)
- Caltiki - Il mostro immortale (1959, uncreditec co-direction)
- La Maschera del demonio (Black Sunday, 1960)
- Ester ed il re (Esther and the King) (1960, co-directiobn)
- Le meraviglie di Aladino (The Wonders of Aladdin, 1960 - Only some scenes)
- Ercole al centro della terra (Hercules in the Haunted World, 1961)
- Gli invasori (Erik The Conqueror, 1961)
- La ragazza che sapeva troppo (The Girl Who Knew Too Much, 1963)
- I tre volti della paura (Black Sabbath, 1963)
- La frusta e il corpo (The Whip and the Body, 1963)
- Sei donne per l'assassino (Blood and Black Lace, 1964)
- La strada per Forte Alamo (The Road to Fort Alamo, 1964)
- Terrore nello spazio (Planet of the Vampires, 1965)
- Ringo del Nebraska (Savage Gringo, 1966 - Uncredited)
- Operazione paura (Kill, Baby... Kill!, 1966)
- I coltelli del vendicatore (Knives of the Avenger, 1966)
- Le spie vengono dal semi freddo (Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs, 1966)
- Diabolik (Danger: Diabolik, 1968)
- Roy Colt & Winchester Jack (1970)
- 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto (Five Dolls for an August Moon, 1970)
- Il Rosso segno della follia (Hatchet for the Honeymoon, 1970)
- Reazione a catena (A Bay of Blood/Twitch of the Death Nerve, 1971)
- Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga (Baron Blood, 1972)
- Quante volte... quella notte (Four Times That Night, 1972)
- Lisa e il diavolo (Lisa and the Devil, 1973)
- La casa dell'esorcismo (House of Exorcism, 1974 - Edited version of Lisa and the Devil)
- Cani arrabbiati (Rabid Dogs, 1974)
- Shock (Beyond the Door II, 1977)
[edit] External links
- Mario Bava at the Internet Movie Database
- Biography of Bava
- Images - Mario Bava, short biography
- Senses of Cinema - about his movies
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