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Forgotten Bava
Bava's "Black Sunday" (1960) deserves and receives most of the attention from horror fans. So this film comes as an interesting testament to the director's incomprable skill with color, along with "Blood and Black Lace" and "Black Sabbath", just as "Black Sunday" highlighted Bava's abilities with black and white film. There is some graphic violence, but not much. The really compelling nature of the Bava films, including this one, are the richly composed images and their atmospheric quality. The surreal visuals draw the viewer into a netherworld of nightmare fantasy. The advent of home video and now DVD is opening the eyes of many movie fans to masters like Mario Bava and his obscure films.

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Give it time...It will reveal its charms...
"Kill Baby Kill" is, for the casual moviegoer, an ambitious view. The pacing can be rather pokey, and the dialogue is usually nothing to write home about. And, of course, it is extremely hard to find in stores (UNCUT and letterboxed, that is). But if you love Italian cinema (like me) and especially love Argento and Bava (like me) then you owe it to yourself to see this. As expected, there is incredible atmosphere in "Kill Baby Kill". There are many gorgeous sequences (that lovely spiral staircase in the castle, the doctor chasing his ghost) that will just enthrall you and have you cheering "this is what cinema SHOULD be"! Mario Bava is truly an astonishing master of cinema technique, and visual imagination. He is one of the only directors to ever utilize color effectively (the film "Blow up" used color well also). In almost all of his films, Bava uses beautiful gel coloring to bathe his sets and surroundings in beautiful pastel colors, adding eerie atmosphere. This technique alone is incredibly influential (watch any of the "Three Mothers" films from Dario Argento and you can clearly see his influence). And that is why "Kill Baby Kill" is one of his very best films. All of his techniques come together in one taut 83 minute film. You have to be patient and forgiving with the film, though. But if you stick with it, you will be handsomely rewarded. A great introduction to Mario Bava's truly awesome style of filmmaking, and a great film in its own right!

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One of Bava's best.
Gorgeous color, dripping atmosphere, beautiful compositions (look for the Van Gough-esque pan as the doctor enters the tavern). The usual unusual Bava touches and twists on cliche horror themes: a "good" witch (the heroine), a demonic, cute little girl (the villian). He goes a little nuts with the zoom lens, though. Look for the freak-out scene in which the doctor chases himself! Wow! Dig the Dreyer-esque carrying of the coffin near the beginning of the picture. His last period piece.