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Mario Bava

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Italian filmmaker, screenwriter, special effects artist and cinematographer (1914-1980)

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Mario Bava was an Italian filmmaker who worked variously as a director, cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter.

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Filmography 40

Black Sunday1960 · ★ 7.4
Black Sabbath1963 · ★ 7.2
Blood and Black Lace1964 · ★ 7.3
A Bay of Blood1971 · ★ 6.6
Danger: Diabolik1968 · ★ 6.4
Rabid Dogs1995 · ★ 7.5
Planet of the Vampires1965 · ★ 6.4
Kill, Baby... Kill!1966 · ★ 6.9
The Girl Who Knew Too Much1963 · ★ 6.9
Lisa and the Devil1973 · ★ 6.2
Five Dolls for an August Moon1970 · ★ 5.8
The Whip and the Body1963 · ★ 6.4
Baron Blood1972 · ★ 6.1
Shock1977 · ★ 6.3
Hatchet for the Honeymoon1970 · ★ 6.4
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs1966 · ★ 5.0
Hercules in the Haunted World1961 · ★ 6.6
Lust of the Vampire1957 · ★ 6.3
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster1959 · ★ 5.8
Erik the Conqueror1961
Naked You Die1968
Knives of the Avenger1966
Four Times That Night1971
The House of Exorcism1975
Odissea1968
Roy Colt and Winchester Jack1970
The Day the Sky Exploded1958
The Road to Fort Alamo1964
The Wonders of Aladdin1961
Gunman Called Nebraska1966
Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre2000
The Venus of Ille1981
Danger: Diabolik - From Fumetti to Film2005
Mario Bava: Operazione paura2004
Italian Kings Of B2003
Santa Notte1947
Legenda Sinfonica1947
L'orecchio1946
Variazioni Sinfoniche1949
Musical Whim1950

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Television 3

The Odyssey1968
The Devil's Game1981
Quelli che il cinema2025

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Mario Bava was an Italian filmmaker who worked variously as a director, cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter. His low-budget genre films, known for their distinctive visual flair and stylish technical ingenuity, feature recurring themes and imagery concerning the conflict between illusion and reality, as well as the destructive capacity of human nature. Widely regarded as a pioneer of Italian genre cinema and one of the most influential and greatest filmmakers of all time, he is popularly referred to as the "Master of Italian Horror" and the "Master of the Macabre".

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Italy
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1914 to 1980 · aged 65
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