Mario Bava - Master of Horror E-Book

Luigi Cozzi

• Herausgeber: Profondo Rosso
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Luigi Cozzi -the author of this book - had the pleasure to meet Mario Bava in the most fertile period of the latter’s extraordinary career in the movies: therefore, this volume offers an in-depth and very personal portrait of this famous director, who made such horror and science fiction classics as MASK OF SATAN, BLOOD AND BLACK LACE, PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES and KILL, BABY…KILL! This book also features an interview with Mario’s son, Lamberto Bava, plus lots of rarely seen pictures.

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Luigi Cozzi

Mario Bava

Master of horror

With a little help from Antonio Tentori and Roberto Curti

Translated by Roberto Curti

ISBN: 9788895294940

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1. THE BAVA FAMILY AND I

“I love Mario Bava’s films. They have virtually no plot, only atmosphere, with all that fog and scantily dressed ladies walking along dark hallways: it’s a sort of Italian Gothic (…) Bava seemingly belonged to XIX century…”

MARTIN SCORSESE

“Bava used to film death with such a loving eye that when I got out of the theater I felt like a pervert. No one else made that kind of films as good as he did.”

JOE DANTE

“Of all the pics I watched, Bava’s Black Sunday is the one that keeps coming to my mind again and again. It’s funny because I just can’t remember the plot, even though I’ve seen it quite a few times. Yet it is so unner- ving that its images literally burst into your head. That movie showed me the magnetism, mystery and power of cinema, and proved that sometimes there are much more important things than a linear storyline.”

TIM BURTON

If you take a look at a lesser known classic of Italian fantastic cinema, Roberto Rossellini’s La macchina ammazzacattivi (in which the Devil gives a man a camera that makes bad people disappear), you’ll notice that this beautiful film opens with an amazing series of optical special effects and visual tricks which somehow predate contemporary American pics: a gigantic, God-like hand creates a village, arranging the houses and inha- bitants (those who have seen my 1982 film Hercules (starring Lou Ferrigno) will remember Zeus’ hand saving the young hero from a huge waterfall…). That scene was realized with an amazing array of stop motion effects and multiple cross fades: something definitely ahead of its times, especially when compared to Italian movies of the period. If you carefully read the main credits, you will find out that Eugenio Bava was the man responsible for these tricks.