Mario Bava: Master Choreographer of the Giallo’s Dance of Death
[This is a revised and expanded version of an article originally published on Greencine, April 3, 2007]
Mario Bava is a horror original.
A painter and cinematographer turned director, a craftsman turned celluloid dreamer, an industry veteran who created, almost single-handedly, the uniquely Italian genre of baroque horror known as “giallo,” he directed the most graceful and [...]