Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace is a candy-coated nightmare, part fashion show, part slaughterhouse, and all style. This 1964 proto-giallo didn’t just invent the rules of the slasher film; it strutted down the catwalk and made murder fashionable. If Psycho turned the shower into a crime scene, Bava turned haute couture into a killing…
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Black Sabbath (1963) – Review
Few horror anthologies achieve the hypnotic mix of atmosphere, terror, and pulp like Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath. A triptych of tales ranging from modern urban paranoia to folkloric dread to ghostly terror, this film is a gothic playground where shadows and colour collide. Anchored by the legendary Boris Karloff, this film remains one of the…
Phenomena (1985) – Review
What do you get when you mix a psychic teen’s ability to control insects with that of a serial killer stalking the students of an all-girls boarding school, a straight-razor-wielding chimp and Donald Pleasence? If you’ve come up with the answer “A Dario Argento film” then you are clearly a student of Italian Giallo and…