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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mario Bava is a highly influential director from Italy’s golden age of horror and thankfully Kino Classics is re-releasing his films on Blu-ray for a new generation to appreciate. If you have never ...

Italian directors have always had a penchant for jumping on the cinematic bandwagon whenever a popular film is released. And we aren’t talking about just a couple of directors and a couple of films, ...

It is arguable exactly when the first so-called spaghetti western was filmed (some critics go all the way back to 1943), but there isn’t much argument about when the genre was popularized, and that ...

Italian horror maestro Mario Bava ended his directorial career with Shock, a trippy ghost story that never got the praise it deserved. I’m going to say a potentially incendiary thing: Mario Bava is ...