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Mario Bava

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Mario Bava (1914–1980) was an Italian filmmaker widely associated with horror, thriller, and giallo cinema, frequently praised for cinematography, lighting, and atmosphere, and for achieving striking results with modest budgets.

Publicly verifiable: Mario Bava was born in 1914 and died in 1980; he was an Italian film director and cinematographer. The reviews repeatedly describe him as foundational for Italian giallo/thriller and highly influential in horror, emphasizing his craft, use of color/light, and low-budget ingenuity.

Across these reviews, Mario Bava emerges as an influential Italian genre filmmaker praised for craft, cinematography, lighting, and color. Writers stress his ability to create striking atmosphere and tension with limited resources, often framing him as underrated in Italy. Multiple films are treated as genre cornerstones: early Italian horror, foundational giallo, proto-slasher brutality, and inventive sci‑fi horror. A recurring thread is Bava’s self-irony and the sense that later cinema borrowed heavily from his ideas.

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