Interviewed by Michael Juvinall, MoreHorror.com
I recently had the immense pleasure of sitting down face-to-face with the famed Italian horror director, Lamberto Bava. Bava’s films are primarily in the horror, giallo, and fantasy genres.
Bava is the son of the legendary Italian director, Mario Bava and grandson of Eugenio Bava, a special effects artist and director from the silent days of Italian cinema. He grew up on the sets of his father’s films, learning all that he could about the business. He worked for 15 years under his father as his personal assistant, assistant director, and screenwriter on such films beginning with Planet of the Vampires (1965), Kill Baby, Kill (1966), Danger: Diabolik (1968), Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970), Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971), Baron Blood (1972), and Lisa and the Devil (1974).
Bava then began working with Ruggero Deodato on his infamous Jungle Holocaust (1977) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980) films, then with Dario Argento as...
I recently had the immense pleasure of sitting down face-to-face with the famed Italian horror director, Lamberto Bava. Bava’s films are primarily in the horror, giallo, and fantasy genres.
Bava is the son of the legendary Italian director, Mario Bava and grandson of Eugenio Bava, a special effects artist and director from the silent days of Italian cinema. He grew up on the sets of his father’s films, learning all that he could about the business. He worked for 15 years under his father as his personal assistant, assistant director, and screenwriter on such films beginning with Planet of the Vampires (1965), Kill Baby, Kill (1966), Danger: Diabolik (1968), Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970), Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971), Baron Blood (1972), and Lisa and the Devil (1974).
Bava then began working with Ruggero Deodato on his infamous Jungle Holocaust (1977) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980) films, then with Dario Argento as...
- 10/6/2012
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Fango recently caught up with spaghetti splatter icon Lamberto Bava, who was making a rare UK appearance at the annual Manchester Festival of Fantastic Films. And he was happy to assure us that his much-mooted Masters Of Italian Horror TV series is still happening—with a start date of summer 2009.
“The Italian horror films of the ’70s and ’80s were very good,” he explains to us, “but back then, we had very good producers. Now we do not have very many. The good producers all work in television—and television and horror do not really go together today, especially in Italy, where all they want are soap operas! However, Masters Of Italian Horror was born with the expectations of reliving these great times from the past, although we may have to change the name of the series to avoid confusion with the American Masters Of Horror.“But it is still going to be four films,...
“The Italian horror films of the ’70s and ’80s were very good,” he explains to us, “but back then, we had very good producers. Now we do not have very many. The good producers all work in television—and television and horror do not really go together today, especially in Italy, where all they want are soap operas! However, Masters Of Italian Horror was born with the expectations of reliving these great times from the past, although we may have to change the name of the series to avoid confusion with the American Masters Of Horror.“But it is still going to be four films,...
- 10/28/2008
- Fangoria
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