Kill, Baby, Kill

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rdf:langString Kill, Baby, Kill

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rdf:langString Italian film poster by Averardo Ciriello

rdf:langString Antonio Rinaldi

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rdf:langString Internazionale Nembo Distribuzione Importazione Esportazione Film

rdf:langString Romana Fortini

rdf:langString ₤201 million

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rdf:langString Luciano Catenacci

rdf:langString Nando Pisani

rdf:langString The Carpathian village of [Kill, Baby, Kill] is among Mario Bava's most indelible achievements — a physicalized realm of fear. [...] Bava uses the location as a source of found German expressionism, merging the canted windows and seemingly irrational angles of streets and stacked buildings with candy-colored cinematography and pointedly artificial sets. This contrast between the discovered and the created suggests a porous boundary between reality and subjectivity, the past and present, and the antiquated and modernized. In [Kill, Baby, Kill], as in many other Bava films, a character can stroll recognizable streets into dimensions that are rooted in their own psyches, trapping themselves in temporal loops that may embody encroaching madness. Bava renders insanity as both a place and a contagion.

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rdf:langString Roberto Natale

rdf:langString Mario Bava

rdf:langString Romano Migliorini

rdf:langString —Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine

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rdf:langString Piero Lulli

rdf:langString Erika Blanc

rdf:langString Giacomo Rossi Stuart

rdf:langString Fabienne Dali

rdf:langString Giovanna Galletti

rdf:langString Luciano Catenacci

rdf:langString Micaela Esdra

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rdf:langString Roberto Natale

rdf:langString Romano Migliorini

rdf:langString F.U.L. Films

rdf:langString Kill, Baby, Kill

rdf:langString Kill, Baby, Kill (Italian: Operazione paura, lit. 'Operation Fear') is a 1966 Italian gothic horror film directed by Mario Bava and starring Giacomo Rossi Stuart and Erika Blanc. Written by Bava, Romano Migliorini, and Roberto Natale, the film focuses on a small Carpathian village in the early 1900s that is being terrorized by the ghost of a murderous young girl. Overseen by one-time producers Nando Pisani and Luciano Catenacci of F.U.L. Films, Kill, Baby, Kill was considered to be a small-scale project compared to Bava's earlier films, as it was made without internationally recognized stars or the support of a major distributor. Although a complete script was written by Migliorini and Natale prior to the start of production, Bava claimed that much of the film was improvised. Shot partially on location in Calcata, Faleria and at the Villa Lancellotti in 1965, the film underwent a troubled production due to F.U.L. Films running out of money during principal photography, prompting the cast and crew to finish the film in the knowledge that they would not be paid for their work. In post-production, the score had to be compiled from stock music created for earlier film productions. Although the film's commercial performance during its initial Italian theatrical release was limited, its domestic run outgrossed those of Bava's previous horror films; abroad, it garnered positive notices from Variety and the Monthly Film Bulletin. With the re-evaluation of Bava's filmography, Kill, Baby, Kill has been acclaimed by filmmakers and critics as one of the director's finest achievements; it was placed at number 73 on a Time Out poll of the best horror films.