My Favorite Mario Bava Films (2024 Edition)

by John Charet

* * * * (Out of * * * *)

  1. Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)
  2. Blood and Black Lace (1964)
  3. Lisa and the Devil (1973)
  4. A Bay of Blood (1971)
  5. Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
  6. Black Sabbath (1963)
  7. Black Sunday (1960)
  8. Planet of the Vampires (1965)
  9. Danger: DIabolik (1968)
  10. The Whip and the Body (1963)
  11. Erik the Conqueror (1961)
  12. Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)
  13. Rabid Dogs (1974/1998)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

  1. Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970)
  2. The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)
  3. Baron Blood (1972)
  4. Shock (1977)
  5. Four Times That Night (1971)

7 thoughts on “My Favorite Mario Bava Films (2024 Edition)”

  1. Black Sunday (1960)
    Lisa and the Devil (1973)
    A Bay of Blood (1971)
    Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)
    Blood and Black Lace (1964)
    The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)
    Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
    Black Sabbath (1963)
    Baron Blood
    Four Times That Night (1971)
    Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970)
    Rabid Dogs (1974/1998)
    The Whip and the Body (1963)
    Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)
    Danger DIabolik (1968)
    Erik the Conqueror (1961)
    Rabid Dogs (1974/1998)
    Planet of the Vampires
    Shock (1977)

  2. Hey Bill, sorry for the late reply 🙂 Interesting choices 🙂 Though Bava is more known for his color films, I see you put a black-and-white one (Black Sunday in this case) as your number one favorite 🙂 A little amazed to see Kill, Baby, Kill and Blood and Black Lace at numbers 4 and 5 respectively 🙂 But again, that is what makes your list fascinating 🙂

    P.S. I updated the * * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *) ranking in the blog entry regarding my favorite Dario Argento films – in other words, I put some new films under that area – If you are interested, click this link below 🙂

    My Favorite Dario Argento Films (2024 Edition)

  3. Black sunday is my number one because it was the first age restricted movie i was allowed to see. I was 12 years old and no one under 12 was admitted. Then my list is al color until the girl who knw too much, which i saw with my dad under the title The Evil Eye. The I saw Black Sabbath at a grindhouse by myself when I was 14. All the rest I saw on home media, except for House of Exorcism, on a triple bill at the World Theatre on Hollywood and Gower with suspiria and count dracula and his vampire bride.

  5. Are you talking about the lead actress of the film jcalberta? 🙂 Her name is Leticia Roman 🙂 I know you are just joking, I just felt like playing along with you 🙂

  6. What an important year for Horror 1960 was – Psycho, Peeping Tom, and Black Sunday. I’d love to have been there at the time to witness how being experienced those three, given what Horror had been like up to that point!

  7. Interesting that you mention those three titles carlosnightman 🙂 Unlike Psycho, Peeping Tom was critically savaged at the time of it’s release to the point where it caused irreparable damage to the career of it’s legendary director Michael Powell. Nevertheless, it reportedly had an impact on directors such as Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma and Francis Ford Coppola that their championing of it would incite a reassessment of it a decade later 🙂

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