Horror films

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Lisa and the Devil

Bava given complete freedom, and the film is a dream nobody can escape, including the producer.

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Kill, Baby... Kill!

A Carpathian village, a dead girl with a white ball, and Fellini borrowed the image wholesale.

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Hatchet for the Honeymoon

Bava's first-person portrait of a killer who murders brides to recover a childhood memory. Genuinely strange.

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The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Bava's proto-giallo, the film that invented the template, shot in gorgeous black and white in Rome.

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Black Sabbath

Three Bava stories introduced by Boris Karloff, and the middle one is the most frightening thing Bava shot.

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Blood and Black Lace

The giallo template, and still the best-looking film in the category.

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A Bay of Blood

The hinge between giallo and slasher. Friday the 13th Part 2 lifts two murders almost shot for shot.

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Black Sunday

Bava could not afford colour and made the best-looking gothic ever shot. Barbara Steele's face did the rest.