Laura Wynne

Apr 5, 2024 | bloodvine.com | Laura Wynne |Tom Phelan |Michael Koresky |Ann Olsson

Mario Bava was a living embodiment of Italian genre cinema, working credited and uncredited on nearly a hundred films. He was a cinematographer, a special-effects artist, and a gifted visual stylist. He shot and, by some accounts, ghost-directed much of Ricardo Freda’s I Vampiri (1957), the first Italian horror film produced after Mussolini’s ban on the genre. Bava got around set-decoration issues by taping postcards to the camera. He made rubber monsters in the ’50s.