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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 ...

Italian director Mario Bava might well be the film industry’s version of Rodney Dangerfield; he gets no respect, and even when he does get respect, it’s only for a slice of his cinematic output. Bava ...

"Death rules here," a coachman warns Giacomo Rossi Stuart shortly after dropping him off in a village plagued by mysterious deaths near the start of Mario Bava's 1966 chiller Kill, Baby… Kill! He ...