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Mario Bava has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1990s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Black Sunday.
Black Sunday
1960 · Movie · Director
Top 3%Prime Video · Included
Blood and Black Lace
1964 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 4%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads
Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 11%Prime Video · Included
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1963 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 13%Prime Video · Included
Rabid Dogs
1995 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 16%Tubi · Free w/ ads
A Bay of Blood
1971 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 19%Prime Video · Included
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
Dir. Mario Bava · With Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi
Isabella, a young model, is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a fashion house in Rome. When her diary, which details the house employees' many vices, disappears, the masked killer begins killing off all the models in and around the house to find it.
Dir. Mario Bava · With Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner
Three tales of supernatural horror include a woman plagued by threatening phone calls, a family targeted by vampiric monsters, and a deceased medium who wreaks havoc upon the living.
Dir. Mario Bava · With Boris Karloff, Mark Damon, Michèle Mercier
A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.
Dir. Mario Bava · With Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Erika Blanc, Fabienne Dali
A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.
Dir. Mario Bava · With John Saxon, Letícia Román, Valentina Cortese
Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway.
Dir. Mario Bava · With Riccardo Cucciolla, Don Backy, Lea Lander
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
Dir. Mario Bava · With Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Claudio Camaso
A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
Dir. Mario Bava · With Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.
Dir. Mario Bava · With Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr.
Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon she is sucked into a vortex of deception, debauchery and evil presided over by housekeeper Leandre.
Dir. Mario Bava · With Telly Savalas, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina
After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
Dir. Mario Bava · With Barry Sullivan, Norma Bengell, Ángel Aranda
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.
Dir. Mario Bava · With Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer, Massimo Girotti
International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.
Dir. Mario Bava · With John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli
A wealthy playboy gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated beach house for a weekend of relaxation. When bodies start pilling up, they realize they’re trapped with a killer in their midst, sending them in a frenzy to figure out who amongst them is killing the others before they are killed next.
Dir. Mario Bava · With Ira von Fürstenberg, Edwige Fenech, Howard Ross
Disowned in the past by his father, Kurt Menliff, a cruel and sadistic nobleman, returns to the family castle to reclaim his inheritance.
Dir. Mario Bava · With Daliah Lavi, Christopher Lee, Tony Kendall
