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Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Wuchak RELEASED IN 1966 and directed by Mario Bava, "Kill, Baby, Kill" takes place in a Carpathian village in 1907 where Dr. Paul Eswai (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) arrives to perform an autopsy at the request of the inspector (Piero Lulli). The evidence points to the hamlet being cursed with a mysterious ghost girl that compels those who see her to kill themselves, which the doctor thinks is rubbish; at first anyway. Erika Blanc plays a visiting medical student who assists Eswai while Fabienne Dali appears as the village witch and Giovanna Galletti as a bitter baroness. Luciano Catenacci is on hand as the burgomaster (mayor) and the witch's lover.The movie has a colorful and haunting Gothic/Horror ambiance, which can be traced to earlier films like the B&W "The City of the Dead" (aka "Horror Hotel") (1960) and, more so, "The Terror" (1963), which was one of Francis Ford Coppola's early works, although he only directed part of it. Like those flicks, "Kill, Baby, Kill" features mysterious manors, dilapidated churches, ghosts, cobwebs, witches and bell towers in the mold of Hammer flicks of the era, such as the contemporaneous "Dracula, Prince of Darkness" (1966). As far as spooky MOOD goes, "Kill, Baby, Kill" is superb, but the story isn't as compelling as "The Terror," except for the last act. Nevertheless, the movie has influenced many artists and their works.Rossi-Stuart makes for a stalwart protagonist in the mold of James Bond (looks-wise) while Erika Blanc and Fabienne Dali work well on the other side of the gender spectrum, both striking in different ways.The title of the film is cheesy and recalls Russ Meyer's "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" from the year before. It was obviously used to give the film a "hip" edge and sell as many tickets as possible. In 1971 it was retitled "Curse of the Living Dead" in the US, which was a 100% improvement. Here are several other sample titles that would be an upgrade, as well as more accurate: "Village of the Laughing Dead"; "Night of the Laughing Dead"; "Child of Vengeance"; "The Ghost at the Window"; "Child Cursed Village"; "Forgotten Daughter"; "Make them Pay"; "Sorceress' Regret"; "Melissa"; and "Melissa's Curse."Okay, now for a few joke titles: "Melissa and her Sissa"; "The Graps of Wrath"; "That Damn Ball" and "Ghost Boy in Drag." That last one is due to the fact that the ghost girl was played by a boy, one-shot actor Valerio Valeri.THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hour, 23 minutes and was shot entirely in Rome, Lazio, Italy. WRITERS: Romano Migliorini, Roberto Natale and Bava.GRADE: B

Bezenby Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, the angry zombie harassing Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth, finds himself harassed by a vengeful ghost child! If you have watched any Japanese horror film at all, you'll know that's the worst kind of vengeful ghost! Giacomo is a coroner who arrives in a creepy 19th Century Italian village to perform an autopsy on the corpse of a girl who has taken a dive onto a pitchfork. Strangely, the villagers don't want Giacomo to touch the body at all and even when he arrives there's a group of red-masked guys carting the coffin around so he can't get to it. But he does, anyway.With the help of Erika Blanc. Now Erica has been called in to help Giacomo, but she also was born in the village and has a mysterious past which no doubt has Giacomo helping himself to that era's version of Amatryptaline. It turns out that anyone who sees the ghostly apparition of Mellisa Graps is in for a horrible death.Mellisa is your regular ghost kid with a scary ball that bounces about everywhere and a tendency to look through windows at her hapless victims. She also must have been some sort of influence on Japanese horror films like The Grudge and Ring and all those other films, surely? I was going to say 'this is another good one from Bava' but when has he ever given us a bad one? This one is a sure contender for the crown of best Gothic Horror ever (rival is Terror Creatures From The Grave) - I'd only say that the end of this one isn't as good as the rest of it, but it's still full of Bava's twisted imagery, reflections, creepy dolls, tracking shots where you know something creepy is going to happen, and all that other stuff that makes these worth squinting at on a laptop.I'm tired. What's a burgermeister?

Mr_Ectoplasma "Kill, Baby, Kill!" also known under its original Italian title, "Operazione paura" ("Operation Fear") follows a doctor who is dispatched to a remote village in the Carpathian mountains to perform an autopsy on a woman who died under unusual circumstances in an abandoned church. When he arrives, he is met by superstitious locals who credit a ghostly young girl with the death, along with numerous others that have plagued the town.One of Mario Bava'a greatest Gothic achievements, "Kill, Baby, Kill" has a wide-reaching influence that is almost unmatched in the horror genre. Not only has it been visually influential, but the narrative has functioned as a model for just about every Gothic "outsider enters supernatural situation" horror flick to follow it. Influence aside, the film has been credited by many as Bava's greatest achievement, and they may be right; I can't patently say one way or the other. However, I do believe it is undoubtedly one of the greatest horror films of its decade, and among the all-time greats.As is the case with anything Mario Bava had his hands on, the film is visually stunning, but "Kill, Baby, Kill" seems even more colorful and striking than many of his other pictures—imagine "Black Sunday" in Technicolor. The foggy sets and baroque aesthetics of the village are immediate and steeped in atmosphere, while the motifs of the blonde ghostly little girl and broken Victorian dolls as arbiters of doom are legitimately chilling.The performances here are by and large strong, with Giacomo Rossi Stuart as a suitable leading man, and Erika Blanc as the mysterious Monica. Fabienne Dali is also quite memorable as the vampy good witch. More than anything else, though, "Kill, Baby, Kill" has likely upheld its reputation because it simply has a compelling story that audiences still recognize (likely due to the aforementioned, wide-ranging influence). It's a classic story that boasts a substantive air of mystery and even a few unexpected revelations. The finale does feel a bit ham-fisted in that it relies on dialogue quite a bit and is also rather brisk, but this is more or less telling of the era in which it was made than a legitimate fault.All in all, "Kill, Baby, Kill" is a deserved genre classic. Not only does it offer Bava's signature dreamy visuals and popping colors, but it also brings enough mystery and narrative intrigue to keep one compelled. It's a classic story told in a classic way, and it to this day presents some of the most chilling images the horror genre has ever offered. 10/10.

MovieGuy01 I really enjoyed Kill Baby Kill, directed by Mario Bava. It is about a doctor called Dr. Eswai, he is called by a man called Inspector Kruger to a small village to perform an autopsy on a woman who has died under suspicious circumstances. The coachman leaves Dr. Eswai at the boundary of the village and advises him to return, since the place would has been abandoned by God. Dr. Eswai is helped in the autopsy by Monica Schuftan, and they find a coin in the heart of the woman. Inspector Kruger goes to the Graps Villa to investigate the rumours about a local curse that is around the village. The villagers say that the curse is the ghost of a girl called Melissa. which is harming the villagers. Ruth, who is the local witch and mistress of Burgomaster Karl, tries to protect the daughter of the innkeeper, Nadienne, with magic under the demand of Dr. Eswai. Dr. Eswai goes to the villa and trys to stop an evil curse on the superstitious villagers brought on by Melissa. I found this to be a very creepy film even though it was made around 40 years ago it still had an effect on me.