Kill Baby Kill!
1966 Dir. Mario Bava Slightly absurd title aside, Kill Baby Kill is without a doubt one of Mario Bava’s most underrated films and an undeniable slice of sublime high-Gothic horror. Arriving in an isolated Transylvanian village to investigate the death of a local woman, Dr Paul Eswai (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) is met with suspicion and wariness by the various locals he encounters. With the help of his assistant Monica (Erika Blank), Paul begins to suspect that something supernatural is occurring in the village. Something that is driving the locals to suicide. Something that appears to have a connection with the crumbling Villa Graps and its sinister inhabitant, Baroness Graps. But what? Kill Baby Kill is, like quite a few Italian horror films, an exercise in style and cinematic prowess. And with Mario Bava at the helm, it is somehow easier to overlook the convoluted plot and slight overuse of the 'shock zoom', and just allow one’s self to become utterly emerged in ethereal...