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Dr. Eswai is called by Inspector Kruger to a small village to perform an autopsy on a woman who has died under suspicious circumstances. Despite help from Ruth, the village witch, Kruger is killed and...( read more 
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MCT:July 4, 2008
Forget that little kid from The Ring. This is very creepy.
Bava is really good at exploiting children to terrify adults. The first time I saw him do it in Black Sabbath, I was terrified. But Black Sabbath was an anthology and that sequence with the Wardarlack imitating the young boy was extremely short. Really, we get to see what Bava really wanted to do with that character in this one. The only problem with the movie is that the story is a bit weak and confusing at times. This is the first of a series of movies where Bava is trying to justify his amount of super-gore with an extremely backwards story.
Besides the creepy blonde kid, there's a really great thing that this story has going for it. I like the idea of local myths and what they can do to influence a town. We see a lot of that in the Universal production of Dracula (which I will get around to reviewing very soon) and I think this movie really capitalizes on that same ancient tradition. I'm not sure what message that these kinds of movies are trying to get across, but the myths always prove correct. Perhaps it is a look at new technology and philosophies proving to be fads while something like traidtion and belief is something very old and unkillable. These people hate these newcomers to the village rather than hating the curse behind it all. It is the little girl killing all of these innocents, but the people who are trying to save them are considered to be the real banes to the village. It's an interesting take on the traditional scares when people are so entrenched in their misery that they would rather settle for their daily misery than risk more misery for the chance of joy and peace.
But the stuff that really bored me was the background of the little girl. Bava plays around with the backstory of the girl and lets you know bits and pieces of the backstory. Now, I'm not saying that the ghost shouldn't have a reason, but the payoff of the story was just dull. If the mystery was going to be as cryptic as it was, there should have been a heck of a revelation. We all knew that the blonde girl was a ghost so we had to assume that she died. Finding out that she died from an accident by a member of the town isn't as interesting as you'd think. But the cooler part (again) of this movie is the haunted house nature of the world.
Bava creates a world that is beyond reality. Most haunted house stories have people stuck in the house overnight. This haunted house works in a different ways. While there are the traditional traps, the house doesn't actually want them there. Most houses kill them off slowly and derives pleasure from the torment. There's torment, but people wake up outside the house, expelled by the evil forces within. While I didn't really get a lot of what the house was doing, there's a lot of good scenes (especially those concerning the room loops like in Zelda) that are easy to create, but are masterfully shown.
But again, the movie doesn't really have a strong throughline. I have to say that the same problem shows up in Lisa and the Devil and Bay of Blood, but I will address those when I get to them. As for now, know that there's a creepy movie in here somewhere, but you'd have to trim down an already hour-and-a-half movie to get to a really solid, tight, and accessible film. -
MCT:March 23, 2008
A village is haunted by the spectre of a young girl in Mario Bava's gothic fairytale. The excellent colour photography and lighting give the film a real dream-like quality.
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MCT:March 7, 2008
There are some really neat camera effects. Also, there's quite a bit of atmosphere and suspense. But I thought it was boring.
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MCT:December 14, 2007A low budget film from what I've read, this gothic shocker looks amazing. The colors pop and the surreal sequences used to drive the characters in the film mad are as amusing as they are effective.
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MCT:July 23, 2007
This is one of those movies that takes a while to get going and when it gets going it's average fair. Some of the sequences near the end were really impressive and like every other Bava film I watched recently, there is some great camera work to be found throughout. Very atmospheric.
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MCT:July 15, 2007The first time I watched Mario Bava's KILL BABY KILL I was singularly umimpressed. In actual fact when I then rewatched it for the first time some time later I was under the assumption that this was my first viewing of the film: I had pretty much forgotten it completely and it wasn't until the scene in which our hero runs through the same room all over again and ends up chasing himself that I noticed that I had indeed already seen it before.
This time round I rewatched it half heartedly and found that the film was growing on me. I still find that it is too slow moving and talkative for its own good, but there are a good number of original sequences in it that taken on their own are little masterpieces: the little girl with the ball is haunting, the scenes on the long round stairs have a subconscious dreamy quality about them (and are of course nicked from Hitchcock's VERTIGO) and the broken dolls imagery are evocative.
So all in all KILL BABY KILL is far from being in my Bava hit list (in actual fact for me this director is at least as often miss as he is hit!), but it is a marginally interesting production that has the power to slowly grow on you upon repeated viewing. -
MCT:July 7, 2007A film about a ghost killing the CEO of a burger chain whose profits are the source of revenue of a small European village. Well, that's what I got out of it...
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MCT:June 27, 2007
Pretty disappointing, the film felt like an idea for a 30 minute filmed stretched out over and hour and a half which of course leads to real bad pacing issues. The last ten minutes were good but the rest was pretty boring.
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MCT:May 13, 2007
Not my favorite Bava film but still great. It takes a while to get off the ground but the last 15 minutes make up for it. The title's a bit off in relation to the story but whatever. As always, the great lighting, sets and camerawork which have influenced today's filmmakers are present. Namely the scene where the doctor chases "the killer"--it's straight out of The Black Lodge from Twin Peaks.
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MCT:April 18, 2007
A supernatural, Gothic masterpiece from Mario Bava. Creepy and unsettling throughout, Bava leaves all the gore off screen, apart from a gruesome death at the start, and lets your imagination do the rest with help from creeping camerawork, splashes of ghastly colour and an interesting plot where a blonde haired child is haunting a small town where people inexplicably die after seeing her.
Pure Bava gothic. -
MCT:March 17, 2007There are not alot of older horror movies out there that I really care for, but this one I bought in a box set. The whole reason that I'm keeping the box set is for this movie.
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MCT:January 16, 2007
A kid ghost killin people, what's not to love? Being chased by a Barbie and Ken look-alike pair...LMFAO loves it!
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MCT:December 13, 2006
One of Bava's scariest. A period Gothic horror film that contains perhaps the cinema's first "creepy little ghost girl" that is so popular today. Here, the little ghost girl seems to represent Satan himself (an idea which Martin Scorcese, an admitted Bava fan, used in Last Tempation of Christ.) Check it out.
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MCT:December 10, 2006Waste of TIME!! Very Weak movie, DO NOT WATCH, if you do end up watching it, side effects may include: Suicide, murder ramapages, road ramapage, any kinds of ways of harming yourself, and many others...
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