CANNES — Introducing Italian director Mario Bava’s 1965 “Planet of the Vampires,” prior to its Cannes Classics screening in a freshly restored 4K print, B-movie maniac Nicolas Winding Refn had the ...

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 ...

SUSPENSE master Mario Bava is known for showing a fair amount of violence in his films, but “The Howling” helmer Joe Dante has a particularly vivid and grisly association with the late Italian ...

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 ...

Mario Bava has never been a household name in the U.S., but the Italian horror director had a huge influence on some of this country’s best known filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese and Quentin ...

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Italian director Mario Bava might well be the film industry’s version of Rodney Dangerfield; he gets no respect, and even when he does get respect, it’s only for a slice of his cinematic output. Bava ...

It may be wild for the contemporary horror cinephile to consider the bounty of stylish gothic cinema that was available in the 1960s. There was the cycle of horror films from Hammer Studios, which ...

Later this week, Doc Films is showing Kidnapped, aka Rabid Dogs, one of the final films by horror master Mario Bava. The film represents the director’s only foray into the crime genre, and it screens ...