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In search of his roots, American student Peter Kleist (Antonio Cantafora) visits the Austrian castle of an ancestor. But some family histories are better left unknown, as Peter discovers when he resur...( read more 
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MCT:July 4, 2008OH MY GOD! I AM FINALLY CAUGHT UP! (I actually had to go to my phone and re-read all of my entries to actually believe it!)
After working 9 hours today (Happy Independence Day, America!) and a whole bunch of shifts this weekend, I can finally say that I'm caught up with the reviews until I watch Alexander Nevsky tonight. That's what I really hoped for, was a chance to keep the order that I so desperately needed. (I was going to review Nevsky tonight, regardless of what order it fell in for my Facebook film group.) But here's to finishing off on a bang.
The Bava series is turning around for me. I hit a little slump there. I'm not saying that we've hit the stride that I had with Black Sabbath, but at least this movie is pretty darned entertaining. A lot of the complicated plot is dropped in this outing. I'm not saying that it is completely devoid of complications and bizarre explanations, but the main plot is pretty straightforward. The big thing is that a cocky American (did I mention that it's Independence Day? Congrats, America. We're always the cocky assh*le who shows up to ruin Italy.) releases the spirit of his great ancestor, who happened to just be this horrible baron who tortured and killed for fun. The only reason he did it? To see if he could do it. I love what Europeans think of Americans. Well, this Baron comes back and starts killing people in awful, awful ways. I don't know why Bava always feels like he has to justify his killings with a crazy plot to satisfy his audience. I'm pretty sure this one is one of his better outings.
The killings are really cool and fairly gross. I turn into an adolsescent boy when it comes to horrible slaughter in Italian horror. I guess that's all you can really look for in a lot of them. (I mean, Bava himself proved that false with his earlier outings, but you gotta take what you can get sometimes. Am I right?) Those are just damned fun. Then, a kid is placed in danger. Bava and kids. Admittedly, he's using them differently than he was earlier, but this is still very effective. There's some actual very legitimate scares in this one and I won't say I'd ever have problems sleeping (my favorite movie of the past month was The Thing, and that had little effect on me), but I will say that it made you at least interested.
The movie gets a little off-track at one point though. I mean, you can't have a killer baron just killing for an hour-and-a-half (or can you? *strokes chin*), so Bava relies on his old tarot card dealing with to complicate the plot a little. I'm actually glad that he does go this direction though. When I was watching the scene, I may have groaned a little bit, but that's because I didn't realize they were setting something up for the end. And the end is pretty darned cool. I should have seen it coming. (I had a tertiary thought that I dismissed, but I can't count that). But the story actually wraps itself up quite nicely. I'm not used to that in later Bava movies.
The only thing that was a little "blah" for me was the special effects makeup on the disfigured baron. I mean, I know the guy uses lots of red paint for blood, but there's this really ambiguous nature to how the baron is looking. It's like they figured out how he was going to look like by just applying a ton of makeup and seeing how it looked like in the end. That part wasn't so scary as it was a little goofy. Luckily, they decided to change that with not making him look like that for the entire movie. (I would go into details, but that would give something away.)
There is one scene that I'd like to commend because it really is solid camera work. I feel like this movie as a whole was a throw-away for Bava and doesn't really have his heart in it, but there's one scene that really changes that idea for me. There's a scene where Eva is running from the Baron in the streets. It's very foggy and there are these really stylized lights everywhere. I hope that Bava wanted to do something special and didn't just want to cover up the fact that the set was repetitive because it was extremely effective and cool. I remember just sitting up and loving every second of that chase. Sure, it was long, but it was well done so I was very happy.
This is probably Bava's most straightforward gore fest out of the entire bunch. This is something that requires popcorn and alcohol. Okay, maybe not requires, but I imagine that it would make the movie more fun. Let's say that I'm not completely turned off to the second Bava Box because of this entry. -
MCT:December 19, 2007
One of the better later-era Bava flicks. The plot's and acting are pretty thin, but it's Bava. What Baron Blood lacks in those departments it more than makes up for with atmosphere, sets and lighting. Some really great shots and scenes are in abundance--namely any time where Elke Sommer gets chased down and that seance scene was classic Bava. On the downside, it's really easy to get sick of Sommer's dumb faces and pitiful hat collection. And that little red-headed girl was more creepy than the movie's atmosphere.
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MCT:December 10, 2007
When will they learn to leave those evil incarnations alone? You should know nothing good will become of them..Grisly
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MCT:September 7, 2007Bava at his dullest. Wait in vain for your interest to be piqued. As always, nice lighting 'n design 'n such.
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MCT:July 23, 2007
Nice effective little Gothic horror movie set in then contemporary 1970s Austria. Cheesy makeup effects, but overall quite entertaining.
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MCT:June 20, 2007
BAron Blood is not the greatest Bava film ever made. But it is a fun time. There are some great set peices and the lighting as always kicks Dago ass. The Baron is creepy as hell...at least when hes still a decomposing wreck. But ultimatly he looses that creepy presence when he "regenerates"
Baron Blood is a modern day horror film with alot of gothic atmosphere, great sets and a creepy villian. -
MCT:March 17, 2007Once upon a time, there was a baron so cruel that his own people referred to him as "Baron Blood". The villagers eventually rebelled against him and tortured him to death. However, a curse was placed on the sadistic tyrant - he would return from the dead should a parchment be read aloud in the room where he was executed.
300 years later, a young man descended from the baron entices a woman into attempting to resurrect his ancestor. Unfortunately, as the spirit of the baron is invoked, the piece of parchment that would have sent him back is blown by the wind into a nearby fireplace.
As the diabolical ghost goes on the rampage, our heroes come to realize that their only chance to defeat him is to contact the spirit of a powerful witch who was burned at stake by the baron himself.
Will they succeed? Find out for yourself in this tense and atmospheric chiller from maestro Mario Bava!
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