Mario Bava: Best Horror Films

Godfather of giallo and Italian gothic: Black Sunday, Blood and Black Lace, Bay of Blood. Best known for Black Sunday, Black Sabbath and Blood and Black Lace.

1. 

   Black Sunday (1960)

   Rated 7.4 on TMDB

   A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia.

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2. 

   Black Sabbath (1963)

   Rated 7.2 on TMDB

   Three tales of supernatural horror include a woman plagued by threatening phone calls, a family targeted by vampiric monsters, and a deceased medium who wreaks havoc upon the living.

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3. 

   Blood and Black Lace (1964)

   Rated 7.3 on TMDB

   Isabella, a young model, is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a fashion house in Rome.

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4. 

   A Bay of Blood (1971)

   Rated 6.6 on TMDB

   An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field,…

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5. 

   Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966)

   Rated 6.9 on TMDB

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

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6. 

   Planet of the Vampires (1965)

   Rated 6.4 on TMDB

   After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.

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7. 

   The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)

   Rated 6.9 on TMDB

   A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.

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8. 

   The Whip and the Body (1963)

   Rated 6.4 on TMDB

   Disowned in the past by his father, Kurt Menliff, a cruel and sadistic nobleman, returns to the family castle to reclaim his inheritance.

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9. 

   Lisa and the Devil (1974)

   Rated 6.1 on TMDB

   Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter.

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10. 

    Baron Blood (1972)

    Rated 6.1 on TMDB

    A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at…

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