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Seen on: 04/09/2010

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Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966)

Directed by Mario Bava

Horror

Most recently watched by noahphex

Overview

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.

Rated PG | Length 83 minutes

Actors

Giovanna Galletti | Giacomo Rossi-Stuart | Luciano Catenacci | Piero Lulli | Erika Blanc | Fabienne Dali | Giuseppe Addobbati | Mirella Pamphili | Micaela Esdra | Quinto Marziale | Franca Dominici | Valerio Valeri

Viewing Notes

I’ve been making an effort to catch up on my Italian horror cinema watching, as it’s a huge gap in my knowledge. So far I’ve found that, in general I’m not crazy about Argento, love the Soavi I’ve seen and tend to favor Fulci just for his bat-shit insanity.

Because it was easily accessible via Netflix I picked up Kill, Baby…Kill, my first foray into Mario Bava.

What stood out for me while watching this film was that it seemed to be highly influential. I saw little bits that seems to have shown up in later, larger named horror movies. Whether this is intentional or not, I have no idea. I haven’t looked further into it, but for starters one detective is named Kruger. There’s some scenes of the killer ghost girl in the hallway and of the ball bouncing down an empty hallway that are seemingly echoed in The Shining.

Beyond that, as I was watching this flick I really enjoyed that Bava was producing a movie that, unlike the works of Fulci, was more coherent, told a better story, but in the end, lacked some of the punch that Fulci has. KBK reminds me of a Sherlock Holmes type story, with supernatural elements woven in. The heritage reveal at the end was for me, not wholly unexpected, but something I think was necessary for the story.

Best thing about this movie to me? That scary as hell little girl. Every time she appeared it gave me goosebumps. It was a perfect casting and I love how pale and wide eyed she was. She really did look like death.

All in all I thought KBK was a heady ghost story and while that’s not necessarily up my alley I enjoyed it quite a bit. I’ll certainly be tracking down more Bava in the future.

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