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 ...

A master of Italian horror nets a spotlight at the 30th annual James River Film Festival. Valerio Valeri as Melissa Graps, the ghostly little girl from Mario Bava's 1966 gothic horror film, "Kill, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a career spanning four decades and encompassing virtually every genre under the sun, Mario Bava inspired multiple generations of filmmakers, from Dario Argento to Martin Scorsese and Tim Burton.

FILMMAKERS Mario Bava and Alfred Hitchcock have a few things in common. Both had a great influence on the development of modern horror films, and they died within days of each other in 1980. The ...

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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 ...