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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Halloween draws near I decided to take a look back at one of my favorite horror movies of the 1960s. Black Sabbath, directed by Mario Bava, is a three-part horror anthology hosted by (and starring) ...

One of the many reasons to be so thankful for the resurgence of Tim Burton with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is that it shows us how his knowledge of film is wider than we give him credit for. Part of the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Mario Bava’s cult crime movie Rabid Dogs is getting an English-Language remake from in-demand Hollywood scribes Samuel Franco and Evan Kilgore. The film’s original producer Alfredo Leone is ...