ABCs of Horror 2: 'K' Is for 'Kill, Baby, Kill' (1966) -- Mario Bava's masterpiece of gothic horror is perhaps the ultimate spooky ghost story. ghosts horrormovies Halloween
a 100-day project to choose the best horror film of every year from 1920-2019, nor last year’s first ABCs of Horror project. With many heavy hitters out of the way, which movies will we choose?
Many Italian horror films of the 1960s skirt the arena of what is traditionally referred to as “gothic horror.” Others embrace the tropes of gothic fiction more intently. And then there’s Mario Bava’s, a film that is more or less the gothic horror genre made manifest and raised up on a dais for worship. Rarely is any subgenre embodied in such a pure and reverent way as Bava accomplishes here, in his ultimate tribute to the romantic, sumptuous delights of classically spooky worldbuilding.
Mario Bava is of course one of the founding fathers of the Italian horror genre, with an early career full of similarly gothic classics, including the likes of. From the mid-1960s onward, Bava’s attention increasingly drifted toward the emerging giallo genre with classics such as. But amid it all, he had time for one last, gloriously gothic masterpiece, in the form of.
At the same time, however, the film does invert a few of the expectations of the genre, especially in how it frames its characters and plays them against archetypes. The dark-haired witch, for instance, turns out to be a force for good who is doing her best to help the townspeople resist the corrupting and ruinous influence of the town’s evil past.
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