Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

lastliberal This is a classic Gothic horror film directed by the great Mario Bava.Strange goings on in the small village pit science and law in the form of Dr. Eswai (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) and Inspector Kruger (Piero Lulli ) against superstitious villagers and their sorceress (Fabienne Dali).Amidst the effort to find out what is going on, a child (Valeria Valeri) keeps appearing - a child that is supposedly dead.There are secrets and sorcery and hatred and revenge, and a final battle to break the chain. This all surrounded by lots of cobwebs and suits of armor, and even arms as candle holders. It was just creepy.Bava has a winner here.

gavin6942 A doctor (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) goes to a small town in the Carpathian mountains some time around 1910 in order to perform an autopsy. The villagers are generally not pleased with this, but he presses on. At the same time, there is rumor of a ghost that appears just prior to death... and somehow these two events are connected.I had not much experience with the work of Mario Bava, having been more familiar with the splatter subgenre of his son Lamberto. But I had always heard great things of Mario, and knew this film was considered by many to be a strong, memorable piece... most notably for a scene where the doctor chases himself or a doppelganger through a series of identical rooms. This scene is pretty great and pulled off very well for the time, no special effects needed. The Gothic atmosphere is also well captured, on par with Hammer films or the Poe works of Roger Corman.I find this film to be something of a tightrope between Fritz Lang's "M" and Peter Medak's "Changeling". Like "M", there is a leitmotif connected to the evil force -- in "M", the whistled tune. Here, a bouncing ball. Likewise, the ball here is somewhat replicated in "Changeling", though no longer as a forewarning to the killer. Also, the colorful imagery here really anticipates the later Italian directors, particularly Argento.Although Luca Palmerini calls the film overrated, he does say the "to the devil a daughter" theme started here and was taken up by Fellini in Toby Dammitt in "Spirits of the Dead" and later in Friedkin's "The Exorcist". I think this is a bit of stretch to connect this film to "Exorcist". Again, the white, bouncing ball symbolizing a dead child, as would later be done to great effect in "The Changeling", is the real key here to future film.To really understand and appreciate Bava, I feel one would have to watch "Black Sabbath" or "Planet of the Vampires", but this film shall be considered my introduction to the man, and I loved him from the first camera shot. I would strongly urge others to meet him in a similar way. Different releases exist, some probably better than others. I watched two different DVDs, the better one being produced by Diamond Entertainment, but I assume a still better print exists.

MovieGuy01 I really enjoyed Kill Baby Kill, directed by Mario Bava. It is about a doctor called Dr. Eswai, he is called by a man called Inspector Kruger to a small village to perform an autopsy on a woman who has died under suspicious circumstances. The coachman leaves Dr. Eswai at the boundary of the village and advises him to return, since the place would has been abandoned by God. Dr. Eswai is helped in the autopsy by Monica Schuftan, and they find a coin in the heart of the woman. Inspector Kruger goes to the Graps Villa to investigate the rumours about a local curse that is around the village. The villagers say that the curse is the ghost of a girl called Melissa. which is harming the villagers. Ruth, who is the local witch and mistress of Burgomaster Karl, tries to protect the daughter of the innkeeper, Nadienne, with magic under the demand of Dr. Eswai. Dr. Eswai goes to the villa and trys to stop an evil curse on the superstitious villagers brought on by Melissa. I found this to be a very creepy film even though it was made around 40 years ago it still had an effect on me.

Claudio Carvalho In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Inspector Kruger (Piero Lulli) calls Dr. Paul Eswai (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) to perform an autopsy in the corpse of a woman found dead in the village where she lived. The coachman leaves Dr. Eswai in the boundary of the village and advises him to return, since the place would be abandoned by God. Dr. Eswai is helped in the autopsy by Monica Schuftan (Erika Blanc), a young woman that has just returned to her hometown, and they find a coin slipped in the heart of the woman. Inspector Kruger goes to the Graps Villa to investigate the rumors about a local curse that the victims are killed by the ghost of a girl called Melissa (Valeria Valeri) with Baroness Graps (Giana Vivaldi), but he never returns to the inn. Meanwhile, Ruth (Fabienne Dali), who is the local witch and mistress of Burgomaster Karl (Max Lawrence), tries to help the daughter of the innkeeper Nadienne (Micaela Esdra) with magic under the protest of Dr. Eswai. When Karl and Nadienne are murdered, Dr. Eswai goes to Trap Villa and discloses an evil curse on the feared and superstitious villagers produced by the hatred of her grieving mother."Kill, Baby… Kill" or "Operazione Paura" is a frightening and original horror tale of hatred, curse and fear. The cinematography, atmosphere and sets are bleak, and I have startled several times with the appearance of Melissa. The scene in the spiral ladder is fantastic and visibly inspired in "Vertigo". My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "O Ciclo do Pavor" ("The Cycle of the Fear")Note: On 10 June 2015, I saw this movie again.