{"id":12852,"date":"2018-12-01T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12852"},"modified":"2018-11-29T08:54:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T13:54:25","slug":"kill-baby-kill-1966-mario-bava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12852","title":{"rendered":"Kill, Baby, Kill (1966, Mario Bava)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12847\">second<\/a> Italian horror of SHOCKtober, and usually it&#8217;s wisest to stick with one Italian horror, but I was psyched about <em>Suspiria Remake<\/em>.  There is screaming in the first two seconds of the movie, a good sign.  Finally watching <em>Kill Baby Kill<\/em> after years of hearing about <em>Kill Baby Kill<\/em>, so the title card was a surprise:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/killbaby1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It is slightly <em>Dracula<\/em>-ish for a second, a doctor being dropped off outside town by a coachman who refuses to drive any further.  Dr. Eswai (Giacomo Rossi Stuart, star of <em>War Between The Planets<\/em> the same year) has a cravat and nice hair, is joined by local student Monica, who of course will end up being involved in the supernatural conspiracy.  It seems a long-dead little girl appears to people, then they die mysteriously soon after, a precursor to <em>The Ring<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/killbaby3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/killbaby4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a beardy inspector, a bald burgomeister, and a wild-haired mystic girl, and you can&#8217;t always tell whose side anyone is on, but really they&#8217;re all just suspicious and terrified because of the baby murders, which are somehow caused by the dead child&#8217;s mother, a reclusive baroness.  After the burgomeister dies, his girlfriend the mystic goes on a suicidal revenge quest, takes out the baroness, and our innocent heroes are free to get outta this burg.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/killbaby2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/killbaby5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Ruth the Sorceress (Fabienne Dali of <em>Le Doulos<\/em>) was cool, and I liked all the colored lights shining on the sets.  Apparently the lighting and camerawork are the reason for this appearing on so many best-horrors lists, but prosaic me was paying too much attention to the silly plot.  Bava directed some 15 movies in the 1960&#8217;s, including <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9390\">The Mask of Satan<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10453\">Black Sabbath<\/a><\/em> and I&#8217;ve got <em>Five Dolls for an August Moon<\/em> around here somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the second Italian horror of SHOCKtober, and usually it&#8217;s wisest to stick with one Italian horror, but I was psyched about Suspiria Remake. There is screaming in the first two seconds of the movie, a good sign. Finally watching Kill Baby Kill after years of hearing about Kill Baby Kill, so the title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,110,1869,320],"class_list":["post-12852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-ghosts","tag-mario-bava","tag-witches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12898,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12852\/revisions\/12898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}