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.

Before the 1960s, a giallo film was a literal adaptation of a giallo novel, but the term soon shifted to apply to a type of film from auteurs like Mario Bava, Dario Argento, and Lucio Fulci that ...

Mario Bava’s black-and-white thriller is called the first giallo movie, and as a nexus point between Hitchcock, paperback thrillers and emerging Italian sensibilities, it makes a perfect ...

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 ...

However, giallo first took shape thanks to Mario Bava’s “The Girl Who Knew Too Much,” which premiered in 1963, more than a decade before American films like Bob Clark’s “Black Christmas ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor John Steiner, a British actor who appeared in Tinto Brass’ Caligula and in other Italian films for directors Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava and Dario Argento, has died.

In 1977, Italian horror maestro Mario Bava released what would be the final feature-length film of his illustrious career, Shock a.k.a. Beyond the Door II – a film that ended his career on a ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor His death was reported by Cinema Retro writer Mark Mawston. In Mario Bava’s credited feature directorial debut, Richardson portrayed a doctor’s assistant whose ...