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	Mario Bava: Master Choreographer of the Giallo's Dance of Death \| GreenCine
		Mario trained as a painter but soon followed in his father's footsteps and became one of the country's most in demand cameramen (Bava disdained the term "cinematographer") and special effects artists, often working uncredited.
		Barbara Steele, her eyes glaring hate even as her face registers terror, is bound to a stake, spitting curses with hellfire to the robed and masked judges who pronounce her death sentence.
		Bava's first color film as a director, Hercules in the Haunted World (1961), followed, a surreal muscleman adventure in purple and red and blue on swirls of fog and underworld cave walls.
	www.greencine.com /central/mariobava (855 words)

	Mario Bava Biography
		Bava's own view of his talent was colored by a lack of confidence, and his basic shyness prevented him from taking advantage of opportunities which would have made his name more internationally known.
		On April 25, 1980, Mario Bava died of a heart attack at the age of 65.
		Bava will perhaps never find the audience acceptance of a Hitchcock -- his films are too stylized, too disturbing and too weird for that type of adulation -- but for serious film buffs, his filmography remains one of the most distinctive and consistently satisfying in the history of film.
	members.tripod.com /mariobava/biography.htm (756 words)

	Mario Bava - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mario Bava (July 31, 1914-April 27, 1980) was an Italian director and cinematographer remembered as one of the greatest names from the golden age of Italian horror movies.
		His work has proved very influential: Bava directed what is called the first italian giallo movie Sei donne per l'assassino (Blood and Black Lace) (1964), and his 1965 sci-fi horror Terrore nello spazio (Planet of the Vampires) was a key influence on Alien (1979).
		Mario Bava has a son, Lamberto Bava, who also achieved a movie-directing career.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mario_Bava (419 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		Bava had his problems with Steele (she was chronically late, a cardinal sin on shooting schedules as tight as his), but in Black Sunday he gives her two of the more spectacular entrances in 60s horror cinema.
		Bava explicitly links sex and death in the film's most frightening moment, when the physician grabs the princess by the cloak and thrusts a crucifix at her; pulling away, she reveals beneath her cloak not the princess's lovely bosom but the vampire's naked and bloody rib cage.
		She writhes in bed, then Bava dissolves to portraits of Melissa Graps bent in a fun-house mirror; a similarly distorted image of the child herself, curls flowing; a close-up of a doll's face going in and out of focus; a vertiginous spiral staircase lit in green and orange, the child's ball bouncing down it.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/2003/0103/030117_2.html (3050 words)

	Mario Bava - Biography - Moviefone
		A former painter whose cinematic compositions were often as lush and gorgeous as any portrait, Italian cinematographer-turned-director Mario Bava developed a reputation as a master celluloid illusionist in addition to creating some of the most gothic and haunting films in Italian cinema history.
		Bava Refined his skills for such directors as Jacques Tourneur and Riccardo Freda, and it was Freda who would ultimately give Bava his break as a director while shooting I, Vampiri (released stateside as The Devil's Commandment).
		Bava's last proper film as a director was the 1977 supernatural thriller Shock (released in the U.S. as the sequel to Beyond the Door), a project on which the veteran director offered his son Lamberto the opportunity to develop his skills by directing numerous scenes.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/mario-bava/81044/biography (832 words)

	Italian movies: Mario Bava
		Mario Bava was born on July 31, 1914 in San Remo, Italy.
		Mario originally studied to be a painter; but, the lure of the film industry was very magnetic.
		The last film Mario would direct would be 1977’s Shock, starring Dario’s muse, Daria Nicolodi, as a mother who moves into a new country home to discover her son is possessed by an evil spirit.
	www.lifeinitaly.com /italian-movies/mario-bava.asp (1038 words)

	Mario Bava (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A former painter whose cinematic compositions were often as lush and gorgeous as any portrait, Italian cinematographer turned director Mario Bava developed a reputation as a master celluloid illusionist in addition to creating some of the most gothic and haunting films in Italian cinema history.
		Such later Bava films as Antefatto (Bay of Blood) (1971) would predate the trend of American slasher films such as Friday the 13th (1980) by nearly a decade, with Friday and its sequels lifting many elements directly from Bava's film.
		Bava's last proper film as a director was the 1977 supernatural thriller Shock (released in the U.S. as the sequel to Beyond the Door), a project on which the veteran director offered his son Lamberto the opportunity to develop his skills by directing numerous scenes.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+81044 (813 words)

	Movies Other\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mario Bava, who died in 1980, believed in the image more than he believed in life.
		A brilliant cinematographer and a master of optical effects, Bava graduated to direction with 1960’s Black Sunday (August 1 at 3, 5, and 7:30 p.m.), which made his reputation and remains his most famous film, partly because of the presence of cult icon Barbara Steele in a dual role as vengeful witch and beleaguered ingénue.
		All Bava’s films are repetitious and minimal, but they work better when he can use repetition and minimalism to kill plot; the plotlessness of Lisa becomes an excuse for a lot of rococo ornamentation, and the result is languid and cloying.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/reviews/documents/02366721.htm (593 words)

	Brattle Theatre Film Resources: The Haunted World Of Mario Bava (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mario Bava is one of the world's undisputed champions of horror filmmaking.
		There is a quirkiness and sense of fun to Bava's challenging approach, suggesting that he is less interested in judging his characters than he is in recording their follies with a wry smile and cynical laugh.
		Bava's first full-length film as a director opens with a signature image: a beautiful witch spewing curses as she's clamped into a spiked mask.
	www.brattlefilm.org /brattlefilm/series_archives/series-haunted_world_of_ma.html (757 words)

	Images - Mario Bava
		Bava's tactic was a reliance on fresh rendering or novel manipulation of traditional images.
		In his later color films, Bava frequently compounded this equation by changing the light from blue to red with their respective connotations of cold and warmth.
		While the plot lines of Bava’s movies often contain the presence of an extraordinary being or object in an otherwise natural environment, that is seldom the narrative focus.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue05/infocus/mariobava.htm (859 words)

	Horrordvds.com - Black Sabbath DVD review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Black Sabbath was Mario Bava's seventh film as director and was shot in glorious Technicolor, and as a result the film is awash in gorgeous shades of blue, green, purple and red, which come across beautifully on this DVD (more on that later).
		Mario Bava was ahead of his time and Black Sabbath is one of the shining examples of that.
		Bava always had such miniscule budgets to work with and yet in his career he's crafted so many horror gems with style and quality that most Hollywood horror films can barely comprehend.
	www.horrordvds.com /reviews/a-m/bsabbath (1656 words)

	10kbullets.com: Feature: Mario Bava (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His father Eugenio Bava was a cinematographer/special effects designer and Mario was so influenced by his father that he gave up his love for painting to pursue a career as a cinematographer.
		Bava's 1973 films Lisa and The Devil would be reedited after bad audience previews and be reedited into the mess know as The House of Exorcism.
		Bava's 1974 film Rabid Dogs would never see the light of day while he was alive as the films producer would pass away and legal battles would keep the film out of circulation for nearly 25 years.
	www.10kbullets.com /features/mariobava.htm (638 words)

	Rabid Dogs - Mario Bava, Riccardo Cucciolla, Lea Lander, Maurice Poli, George Eastman, Don Backy, Erika Dario - 1974 - ...
		Mario Bava's work here is certainly as good as ever, it's just that his exceptional talent in this case is used only for the good of the story.
		Bava' s masterpiece, Rabid dogs (english title) is a concentrate of tension and violence: the starting is nervous, the remain is claustrophobic.
		Bava never loses his grip on the situation and one is kept on tenterhooks throughout.
	www.learmedia.ca /product_info.php/products_id/1022 (663 words)

	Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre
		Georgia Bava, his granddaughter, says one of her grandfather's dreams was to come to America, something that never happened.
		Roy Bava, grandson and himself a director relates a funny tale in which Mario placed a sculpted marble foot in his bed to frighten his mother.
		Though Bava's attempts in the Western genre were spoken of (and a photograph or two was shown), a clip from any of them might have been most welcome.
	www.dvddrive-in.com /reviews/i-m/mariobava.htm (675 words)

	Italian Horror Films: Mario Bava
		Mario Bava made his name in the Italian film industry as a cinematographer on more than 70 films before he was finally assigned to finish directing I VAMPIRI for Ricardo Freda in 1956.
		Here we see Bava already in prime form as he expertly handles an array of gothic horror traditions including: shadowy castles and crypts, fog shrouded forests, and a slow-motion phantom carriage.
		Though the plot is obviously inspired by PSYCHO, Bava's film has two extraordinary twists: the psycho is a lady-killer figuratively as well as literally, and the whole story is told from his point of view.
	www.stim.com /Stim-x/0696June/Automedia/italbava.html (980 words)

	Kinoeye \| Horror: Mario Bava's Sei donne per l'assassino (1964)
		Bava shows that clothes are more important than women and the the latter are adjuncts of the former (rather than the reverse).
		At the end of Bava's film, the villain is now free of suspicion as Cristina (Eva Bartok), his mistress and partner in crime, had continued killing in his place while he was in prison.
		Bava shows that the economic dimension of sexuality is where true morbidity lies.
	www.kinoeye.org /01/07/humphries07.php (1366 words)

	Mario Bava's Bloody Best (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bava’s camera carefully defines her, deliberately slow-panning Steel’s cloaked figure lying on the coffin’s stone slab, the undead awakened, attracting us with an awful and mysterious beauty and repelling us with the fear of intended malice.
		In this aspect the totality of Mario Bava as director is manifested in its fullest potential and force in the classic artistic endeavor that is Black Sunday.
		Bava was able to coax out a sinister impact from Karloff’s performance, a fitting tribute to the aging actor who passed from this earth in 1969.
	www.horror-wood.com /bava.htm (3025 words)

	MARIO BAVA_E
		Mario Bava told the the french review POSITIF in 1972 (n° 138, may) that his father taught him everything he knew about cinematography.
		Mario Bava also finished some of the movies he was working on.
		Mario Bava was definitively the key point to all this.
	www.superwonderscope.com /mario_bava_e.htm (719 words)

	Mario Bava Information
		Mario Bava (July 31 1914-April 27 1980) was an Italian director and cinematographer remembered as one of the greatest names from the golden age of Italian horror movies.
		His work has proved very influential: Bava directed what is called the first Italian giallo movie Sei donne per l'assassino (Blood and Black Lace) (1964), and his 1965 sci-fi horror Terrore nello spazio (Planet of the Vampires) was a key influence on Alien (1979).
		Mario Bava has a son, Lamberto Bava, who also achieved a movie-directing career.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Mario_Bava (379 words)

	Mario Bava
		Mario Bava directed (or co-directed) twenty-four features during an eighteen year period, 1960 to 1978.
		Bava's study of the human face is a perverse variation on the “symphony of faces” found in Carl Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).
		The denouement is a worthy finale to Bava's film career: a mother, pushed to the brink of madness and despair, slits her throat in the basement of her house while, outside, her little son “plays” with the ghost of his father (he serves imaginary tea to a man who isn't there).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/04/bava.html (4774 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Mario Bava: Baron Blood
		Bava’s murdering id-figures are always stylish, and the Baron, at least in the more evil of his two guises here, is no exception.
		Christina is one of a long line of Bava’s beautiful, powerful, but tormented beauties, a kind of magna mater whose connections to the world of the supernatural wreak havoc on her.
		Bava is always at his best in chase sequences, and this film features a fine one when Eva is pursued through the quaint town by the evil Baron.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /26/baronblood.html (743 words)

	Mario Bava
		Bava collaborated with Riccardo Freda on I, VAMPIRI (1957), the first Italian horror film of the sound era, initially as cameraman and optical effects designer, then directing half the film in only two days when Freda abandoned the film.
		Troubled by his fathers inactivity, son Lamberto Bava (his assistant since 1966) scripted what proved to be his final feature, SHOCK (1977), the harrowing story of a woman's mental collapse after returning to the house she once lived with her late, drug-addicted husband.
		Mario Bava, All the Colours of the Dark by Tim Lucas.
	www.horrordirectors.com /mariobava.html (837 words)

	10,000 Bullets » Mario Bava
		Mario Bava was born on July 31, 1914, in San Remo, Italy.
		His father Eugenio Bava was a cinematographer/special effects designer and Mario was so influenced by his father that he gave up his love for painting to pursue a career as a cinematographer.
		Bava’s 1974 film Rabid Dogs would never see the light of day while he was alive as the films producer would pass away and legal battles would keep the film out of circulation for nearly 25 years.
	10kbullets.com /features/mario-bava (703 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre at Epinions.com
		Bava's granddaughter Georgia, for example, tells us her grandfather always dreamed of coming to the U.S., where he felt he might have achieved greater success.
		AIP founder Sam Arkoff, however, notes that Bava didn't speak English very well and therefore "didn't feel he'd be at home here." Another reason for the director's neglect has to do with the type of films he made.
		Still, Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre culls together a number of interesting figures (son Lamberto Bava, director of "Demons" and "Demons 2," Tim Lucas of Video Watchdog, actor John Phillip Law, FX guru Carlo Rambaldi, et al.) and there's a generous amount of film clips.
	www.epinions.com /content_162010664580 (849 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Mario Bava - 1971 - Bay of Blood Movies Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Come to think of it, Bava was the first to cook up the premise of teenagers sneaking into a cabin to have sex and party before getting hacked up by an unseen psycho and his trusty machete.
		Mario Bava doesn't trouble himself with much of a plot.
		While Mario Bava made an interesting and pretty fun movie, it hasn't aged particularly well except as a museum piece for folks like me. It gives me a chance to pretend I'm some sort of gore film historian tracing the lineage.
	www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10001246 (1276 words)

	Amazon.com: Mario Bava - Maestro of the Macabre: DVD: Mario Bava,Alfredo Leone,John Phillip Law,Georgia Bava,Joe ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mario Bava - Maestro of the Macabre (2000)
		Bava excelled in many genres, including the sword-and-sandals epic, the sexploitation comedy, the spaghetti western and the spy romp, but it is unfathomably unique horror movies like 'Black Sunday', 'Black Sabbath' and 'Baron Blood', for which he is revered today.
		Bava's father was an important figure in Italian cinemas as a special effects artist, but his son took the long route up the hierarchical industry ladder to eventually become a leading cameraman for the likes of Rossellini and Pabst.
	www.amazon.com /Mario-Bava-Maestro-Macabre/dp/B00005OCL3 (1023 words)

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