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All episodes broadcast live on the dates below at 2:30 PM EDT
- Black Sunday (1962)
4-2-134-3-13 View this episode - Hercules and the Haunted World (1962) 4-9-13 View this episode
- The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)
4-16-134-17-13 View this episode - Blood and Black Lace (1963) 4-23-13 View it live here
- Long Hiatus
- Black Sabbath (1963) 7-24-13
- Planet of the Vampires (1965) 8-1-13
- Kill, Baby, Kill (1966) 8-9-13
- Danger: Diabolik (1968) 8-15-13
- Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971) 8-30-13
- Rabid Dogs (1974) 9-13-13
- Black Sunday (1962)
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Friday the 13th
We’re planning on covering our final Bava film, Rabid Dogs, tomorrow on Friday the 13th. And as it falls on the 13th year, it’s double bad luck. Maybe it would have been more appropriate to do Twitch of the Death … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Of nature and hippies
One of the things we didn’t get to talk about from Twitch of the Death Nerve was the octopus or squid or whatever that thing was. I don’t know why it stood out for me – it’s only in a … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Of nature and hippies
One of the things we didn’t get to talk about from Twitch of the Death Nerve was the octopus or squid or whatever that thing was. I don’t know why it stood out for me – it’s only in a … Continue reading → Continue reading
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All’s well that ends well
I had never seen Twitch of the Death Nerve before. I guess I just figured I had outgrown Friday the 13th type movies, so I never put it in my Netflix queue. After the opening credits, we hear a fly … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Fumetti and mirrors
Danger: Diabolik was Bava’s first and only big budget film. He had been used to making $50,000 films. Here, Dino De Laurentiis gave him $3 million to work with. Bava left $2.6 million on the table. Since his forte had long been … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Art Imitating Art
As I watched Danger: Diabolik, I thought that hitchhiking scene looked very similar to something from a Heavy Metal comic strip from my degenerate youth. Not a direct copy, but a similar idea. Today I was fortunate to get a … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Friday Morning Bava Breakfast
We had a morning edition of the BavaFilmFest today, discussing Kill, Baby… Kill!. I said a little about the Hitchcock connection before, but today Jim brought up similarities to The Shining which hadn’t even occurred to me, being as dense as … Continue reading → Continue reading
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The Dead Eyes of Dr. Dracula
Next in line on the Bava film fest is Kill, Baby… Kill! – Operazione paura (Operation Fear) in Italian, and known in Germany as Die Toten Augen Des Dr. Dracula (The Dead Eyes of Dr. Dracula). Bava’s titles frequently played off … Continue reading → Continue reading
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They’re back!
So we finally got back on track with the Bava film fest. I was woefully underprepared but remembered a little of what I had blogged about before. And we tried, with a couple false starts, a different recording method. I’m … Continue reading → Continue reading
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They’re back!
So we finally got back on track with the Bava film fest. I was woefully underprepared but remembered a little of what I had blogged about before. And we tried, with a couple false starts, a different recording method. I’m … Continue reading → Continue reading
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