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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0013131485493
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 03, 2007
Running Time: 430 minutes
Sales Rank: 13568
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: May 20, 1964
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Product Description:
Black SundayA vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant. Only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor stand in her way.Black SabbathA trio of atmospheric horror tales about: A woman terrorized in her apartment by phone calls from an escaped prisoner from her past; a Russian count in the early 1800s who stumbles upon a family in the countryside trying to destroy a particularly vicious line of vampires; and a 1900-era nurse who makes a fateful decision while preparing the corpse of one of her patients - an elderly medium who died during a seance.Coltelli del vendicatore I After the apparent death of her husband King Arald a viking peasant woman named Karin takes her son Moki into hiding from Aghen King Arald's enemy. But a mysterous stranger named Rurik begins acting as Karin's guardian which evetually leads to a brutal showdown between Rurik and Aghen.Kill Baby KillDr. Eswai is called by Inspector Kruger to a small village to perform an autopsy on a woman who has died under suspicious circumstances. Despite help from Ruth the village witch Kruger is killed and it is revealed that the dead woman as well as other villagers have been killed by the ghost of Melissa a young girl who fed by the hatred of her grieving mother Baroness Graps exacts her revenge on them. Dr. Eswai along with Monica a local nurse are lured into a fateful confrontation at the Villa Graps.The Evil EyeNora is a young tourist traveling through Rome which takes a sudden turn when she witnesses a murder by a serial killer that the police have sought for years for the so-called Alphabet Killings and Nora soon finds herself in way-over-her-head trouble when the police want her cooperation to catch the killer while the mystery killer soon targets her for his next victim.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR UPC: 013131485493 Manufacturer No: DV14854
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Five of Mario Bava's best films are included in this box set, minus his forays into eroticism, like Blood and Black Lace. Still, the lines between sexual pathos and violence blur in these selections that influenced not only other famed directors of Giallo, such as Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, but also spawned the American golden age in horror, led by directors such as John Carpenter. Three black and white films here exemplify Bava's trademark use of chiaroscuro mixed with suspense-building cinematography first developed in early horror classics like Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. In the Hitchcock-inspired Evil Eye (1963), tourist Nora Davis (Leticia Roman) witnesses a murder but can't convince police of the crime. Kill Baby Kill! (1966) is the prototype for all little girl-ghost films. Dr. Paul Eswai (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) is recruited to solve the mystery of Villa Graps, where Baroness Graps (Giana Vivaldi) reanimates her dead daughter, Melissa, by killing innocent villagers. In Black Sunday (1960), the witch Princess Asa Vajda comes back from the dead to inhabit her look-alike, Katia, both played by Barbara Steele, the original femme fatale to which all brunette vamps, like Soledad Miranda (Vampyros Lesbos) and Elvira, are indebted.
In Technicolor, Bava's fantastically rainbow-lit films underpin the director's fascination with connections between our world and those imagined. Black Sabbath (1963) is a trilogy hosted by Boris Karloff, who also stars as a Russian vampire in its segment, 'The Wurdalak.' 'The Telephone,' and 'The Drop of Water,' in which a nurse, Helen Correy (Jacqueline Pierreux), steals a ring then fears that her dead medium patient seeks revenge, are acute studies of guilt and paranoia. The Viking saga, Knives of the Avenger (1966), like Bava's Hercules in the Haunted World, spawned several sword and sorcery films, while protagonist Rurik's (Cameron Mitchell's) knife-throwing is indeed entertaining. Screened back to back, these films provide evidence of Bava's influence in the horror genre. Moreover, they reveal Bava's deep understanding of horror's many facets, whether sexually, psychologically, or physically based. —Trinie Dalton
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Rating:  - All Those Colours of the Dark
Mario Bava is probably one of the most important and influential, yet lesser known, genre directors to come out of Italian cinema. His films combined an art house sensibility within the 'exploitation' tag they we're labeled with. As it's been noted elsewhere here, he was a master of the gothic horror film, yet his body of work included such genres as Science Fiction, Greek mythology, Viking Sword and sandal tales, Crime capers, serial murderers, anti heroes, sex farces, westerns, surrealism, and ... Read More
Rating: - Great Bava Collection
This box set contains five of Bava's films. 'Black Sunday', 'Black Sabbath' and 'Kill, Baby..kill' (along with two more) are the top notch gothic horror flicks included in this set. Each DVD is placed in its own slim keep case inside the very artistic outer box. All movies are presented in widescreen format and the transfers are pretty good. Very nicely done by Anchor Bay. This along with The Bava Box Set, Vol. 2 will get you almost the entire Bava films.
Rating: - A Great Box Set
This is a great box set. Black Sabbath and Black Sunday are two of my favorite movies. I am glad to finally own them. I watched the whole set several times already. Black Sabbath is in Italian with english subtitles. This doesn't bother me one bit. I plan on ordering the second box set as soon as possible.
Rating: - Horrors! (and other stuff)
Prior to picking up the Mario Bava Collection Volume 1, I had only seen one Bava movie, Black Sunday. Based on seeing that movie, and his reputation as an important director for horror, I decided to pick up the five movie set and was not disappointed.
Black Sunday (or as it is also known, The Mask of Satan) was originally given a three star review when I watched it a few years ago, but it gets better on reviewing. Opening with the brutal killing of a witch and her lover, the movie ... Read More
Rating: - Almost perfect but for one fatal flaw
I would have bought this set, being a fan of Bava and particularly of these films, but without Karloff's voice in Black Sabbath I personally consider it not worth having. I already have the version with the Italian actor's voice and it DOESN'T WORK. Sorry, Bava and Euro/Iti film fans, but the edited American Version is superior to the original for this reason alone (the other drawbacks are relatively negligable). Why else use Karloff if you don't get the full actor? The Italians never shot synch ... Read More
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