Film director, cinematographer, special effects artist, screenwriter
Children
Lamberto Bava
Parent
Eugenio Bava
Mario Bava (31 July 1914 – 27 April 1980)[2] was an Italian filmmaker who worked variously as a director, cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter.[3] His low-budget genre films, known for their distinctive visual flair and stylish technical ingenuity, feature recurring themes and imagery concerning the conflict between illusion and reality, as well as the destructive capacity of human nature.[1] Widely regarded as a pioneer of Italian genre cinema and one of the most influential auteurs of the horror film genre,[4][5] he is popularly referred to as the "Master of Italian Horror"[6] and the "Master of the Macabre".[7]
After providing special effects work and other assistance on such productions as I Vampiri (1957), Hercules (1958) and Caltiki – The Immortal Monster (1959), Bava made his official feature directorial debut with the gothic horror film Black Sunday, released in 1960. He went on to direct such films as The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Black Sabbath, The Whip and the Body (all released in 1963), Blood and Black Lace (1964), Planet of the Vampires (1965), Kill, Baby, Kill (1966), Danger: Diabolik (1968), A Bay of Blood (1971), Baron Blood (1972), Lisa and the Devil (1974) and Rabid Dogs (1974).
According to the British Film Institute, "Bava took a vital role in the creation of the modern horror film. If there was to be a Mount Rushmore-style monument dedicated to four directors whose work pioneered a new form of big screen chills and thrills, those giant faces etched in granite on the mountainside would be: Bava, Alfred Hitchcock, Georges Franju and Michael Powell."[5]
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^"Mario Bava". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 November 2007.
^"Why your favourite directors love Mario Bava". Little White Lies. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
^ ab"Where to begin with Mario Bava". British Film Institute. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
^Pezzotta, Alberto (1995). Mario Bava. Milan: Il Castoro Cinema.
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format (although not signed as such) and the Technicolor color process. MarioBava, the film's cinematographer, was credited as a co-director on Italian...
2018. Cameron Mitchell at IMDb Bowen, Chuck (24 July 2016). "Review: MarioBava's Blood and Black Lace on Arrow Video Blu-ray". Slant Magazine. Retrieved...
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of Aladdin (1961) with Donald O'Connor and directed by Henry Levin and MarioBava, Pecado de amor (1961), Seven Seas to Calais (1962) with Rod Taylor, and...
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