LA MASCHERA DEL DEMONIO

Mario Bava

Mario Bava (San Remo, 1914) died in Rome 1980. His father was a camera person at the time of silent movies and passed down to Mario his passion for the cinema as well as a love for painting and an interest in everything that is connected with images. Until 1960 he worked as director of photography. In the 1940s he directed a few short films. He debuted as a director with Black Sunday, today still considered his masterpiece. Subsequently, he started to make color films and began to make a long series of gothic horror films that have largely been overlooked in Italian criticism. His cinema has earned a healthy reputation abroad and has been subjected to an important re-evaluation over the last thirty years.

FILMOGRAFIA

La maschera del demonio (1960), I tre volti della paura (1963), La frusta e il corpo (1963), Sei donne per l'assassino (1964), Terrore nello spazio (1965), Diabolik (1968), Il rosso segno della follia (1969), Reazione a catena (1971), Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga (1972), La casa dell'esorcismo (1974), Schock (1977), La venere d'Ille (1978).