Mario Bava

Bava lays a foundation with ‘Blood and Black Lace’ (1964)

If Dario Argento constructed beautiful horror castles, his mentor Mario Bava laid the foundations and dug out the basements first. As such, he’s a director

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‘A Bay of Blood’ (1971) shows where ‘Friday the 13th’ came from

I’ve found a lot of proto-slasher giallo films are still engrossing today due to not only the cinema-history lesson but also the stories and craft.

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