Lea Lander, George Eastman, Don Backy
The bleak but captivating story of three men who take a woman hostage and hijack a car driven by a man taking his dying son to the hospital. Mario Bava's film was completed posthumously in 1997 by Pet...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 18, 2006
Stats: 84 reviews
Perhaps Bava's most personal, intense and original film. In spite of a very low budget and limited available means - substantially, an overcrowed car and a road - this is a pearl in his filmography.
Dirty, amoral, crude and nihilistic 1974 crime movie, which never fails to involv...( read more)
Fleeing a bloody payroll heist, three criminals abduct two adults and an unconscious, possibly dying child. Basically a five character hostage drama set almost entirely inisde a cramped car, strong characterizations make this involving despite plot holes and a too-obvious twist ...( read more)
Rabid Dogs (not Kidnapped) starts off as a movie that's trying to be rotten either for the sake of being rotten or because the worst it can get is an R-rating. The very well done escape sequence is really all that seems to carry Bava's signature. Rabid Dogs has none of the brilli...( read more)
Three men take a woman hostage and hijack a car driven by a man taking his dying son to the hospital.
The thing to know about this movie was that it was never released during Mario Bava's lifetime because the producer went bankrupt and the film was seized after a rough cut was ma...( read more)
Arnold Horseshack and Vinnie Barbarino turn to a like of crime in this botched heist turned family vacation road trip. While a bit slow in some spots and suspect to seventies editing lags (even though the film was completed in the late nineties due to the producer's bankruptcy), ...( read more)
Mario Bava is usually associated with colour-drenched lighting schemes, mostly with classic gothic horror movies or the giallo genre which he started. But even without studios or stylized lighting, Bava could make memorable pictures.
Of what Bava pictures I've seen, Rabid Do...( read more)
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One of the coolest crime movies from Italy.
Stay away from the crappy re-edited version known as 'Kidnapped', in which a huge part of the original material from Bava's 'Cani arrabbiati / Rabid Dogs' (1974) was alterated, and rather watch a better restored version titled 'Cani arrabbiati - Semaforo Rosso'!
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