Mario Bava
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- Mask of Satan (Black Sunday) (1960)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Barbara Steele
- Italian shock–merchant Mario Bava's finest hour – his graphic, gothic images are way beyond 1960 and still impress today. A stylish…
- Gladiators 7 / The Giant of Marathon (1960-1962)
- Dir. Pedro Lazaga, Jacques Tourneur, Mario Bava
Feat. Steve Reeves, Mylene Demongeot, Gerard Tichy
- Two dubbed 'spaghetti epics' from the heyday of the early 1960s:
Gladiators 7 (1962) Directed by Pedro Lazaga – A Greek riff on THE…
- Esther and the King (1960)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh, Mario Bava
Feat. Joan Collins, Richard Egan, Denis O'Dea…
- The Book of Esther is retold in this minor Biblical epic, with Joan Collins as a Jewish girl saves her people from a pogrom launched by the evil…
- Black Sabbath (Three Faces of Fear) (1963)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Boris Karloff, Michele Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi…
- Finely wrought three–part portmanteau film from the talents of Italian horror–maestro Mario Bava. Boris Karloff provides the…
- Planet of the Vampires (1965)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Barry Sullivan
- Various crew members start disappearing while searching for signs of life on planet Aura. Atmospheric space adventure would pre–empt ALIEN by…
- Kill Baby Kill (Operazione paura; Curse of the Living Dead) (1966)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Erika Blanc, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Fabienne Dali
- One of dir. Bava's most intensely baroque horror visions, set in a small Transylvanian village where bodies start turning up with gold coins embedded…
- Danger Diabolik (1968)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli…
- Cat–burgling cool from the pop–art 1960's, outfitted in futuristic chic and the effortless glamour of John Phillip Law and blonde…
- Hatchet For The Honeymoon (1970)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti
- With sombre, fluid visuals, the esteemed horror dir. Bava, livens up a fairly standard tale of a psychotic fashion director, who hunts and slaughters…
- Twitch of the Death Nerve (Bay of Blood) (1971)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli
- Highly influential proto–slasher film from the Italian horror maestro Mario Bava, laying the way for such nightmares of remorseless…
- Baron Blood (1972)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer, Massimo Girotti
- A resurrected 16th century warlock moves back into his old haunt to continue his macabre fantasies. A petrified Elke Sommer runs around in a…