The Movie: Kill, Baby, Kill (1965)
What Is It?: In
an 18th century Carpathian village, a doctor investigates the death of a woman
who leaped from a ledge onto a spiked fence. Suicide? Not exactly. The mystery
deepens as a giggling, sallow-eyed girl appears whenever a villager is
compelled to take his or her own life. The horror heightens as director Mario
Bava piles on the startling images: creepy dolls, a swing-set mounted camera
swooping over a graveyard, an op-art staircase,and a bounty of cobwebs, crypts, and corpses. There’s also a good witch
and a living, breathing dead ringer for the grimacing corpse from Black Sabbath.
Why Today?: On
this day in 1914, Mario Bava is born.
