Typical Mario Bava horror movie filled with eerie appearing , grisly murders and vivid imagery . The strange murder of a woman , triggers a lot of weird killings at a strange location . Doctor Eswai is called by Inspector Kruger (Piero Lulli) to a small village to perform an autopsy about a corpse killed in suspicious circumstances . Later on , there takes place several grisly murders among inhabitants allegedly carried out by a weird little girl . Along the way a forensic doctor (Giacomo Rossi Stuart) and a disconcerting nurse (Erika Blanc) are mercilessly chased by a rare, sinister spectre . From time to time things go wrong despite help from Ruth (Fabienne Dali) , who is the village witch , and mistress of Burgomaster Karl (as Max Lawrence) , as she attempts to save the daughter of the innkeeper (Giuseppe Addodabati or John MacDouglas) and it is revealed that the dead woman , as well as other villagers, have been surprisingly killed by dark forces running along the way . Dr. Eswai, along with Monica , the local nurse, are lured into a fateful confrontation at the Villa Graps , whose owner is the grieving Baroness Graps , mother of the unsettling girl . Various murders take place , there are various suspect people : a witch , a deranged baroness attempting to exact her vendetta, and , of course , the ghost of Melissa, a young girl fed by a deadly hatred ocurred longtime ago and caused during a tragic event . The night brings terror! Blood chilling fear! Coming soon to scare you! Eerie, Horrific, Bloodcurdling! The SQ Show - Makes you SHIVER & SHAKE! Makes you QUIVER & QUAKE!.Shiver and quiver with KILL BABY KILL.
Outlandish , sick Mario Bava terror flick , it contains thrills, chills, gory effects, scary happenings and high body-count . It displays a twisted script dealing with non-sense murders, supernatural events and a bizarre curse that claims about the victims are murdered by the ghost of a girl called Melissa . As the film is a fair murder mystery at a tenebrous location in which some villagers are relentlessly butchered. In spite of a few scenarios and its low budget , Bava develops stunning photography, making great use of lighting, set design , amazing set pieces and camera positioning to compliment mise-en-scenes bathed in deep primaries .
Special mention for colorful and brilliant cinematography by Antonio Rinaldi and Mario Bava himself . As well as frightening and thrilling musical score by Carlo Rustichelli , though the soundtrack was formerly used in the earlier Mario Bava giallo film titled Blood and Black Lace (1964). The picture titled was well directed by Mario Bava in his usual style. Bava uses his ordinary visual tricks, sustaining interest enough through the fantastic and well-designed scenarios and when there shows up the creepy little girl who definitively steals the show. Bava was an expert on terror movies, such as : "I vampiri" codirected by Riccardo Freda , "Black Sunday" with horror myth Barbara Steele, "The Whip and the Body" with Christopher Lee, "The girl who knew too much" considered to be the first Giallo, "Black Sabbath" with Boris Karloff, "Planet of Vampires" with Barry Sullivan , "Kill baby kill" , "Hatchet for the honeymoon" , "5 dolls for an August Moon" , "Torture of chamber of baron blood" with "Lisa and the Devil" with Telly Savalas and his last one "Schock" . Though Bava also made other genres as Peplum : "Hercules in the haunted world" , sex comedy : "Four times that night", Viking movie : "Knives of the avenger" and Oriental fantasy : "The wonders of Aladdin" . The picture will appeal to terror genre buffs. Rating 7.5/10.
Outlandish , sick Mario Bava terror flick , it contains thrills, chills, gory effects, scary happenings and high body-count . It displays a twisted script dealing with non-sense murders, supernatural events and a bizarre curse that claims about the victims are murdered by the ghost of a girl called Melissa . As the film is a fair murder mystery at a tenebrous location in which some villagers are relentlessly butchered. In spite of a few scenarios and its low budget , Bava develops stunning photography, making great use of lighting, set design , amazing set pieces and camera positioning to compliment mise-en-scenes bathed in deep primaries .
Special mention for colorful and brilliant cinematography by Antonio Rinaldi and Mario Bava himself . As well as frightening and thrilling musical score by Carlo Rustichelli , though the soundtrack was formerly used in the earlier Mario Bava giallo film titled Blood and Black Lace (1964). The picture titled was well directed by Mario Bava in his usual style. Bava uses his ordinary visual tricks, sustaining interest enough through the fantastic and well-designed scenarios and when there shows up the creepy little girl who definitively steals the show. Bava was an expert on terror movies, such as : "I vampiri" codirected by Riccardo Freda , "Black Sunday" with horror myth Barbara Steele, "The Whip and the Body" with Christopher Lee, "The girl who knew too much" considered to be the first Giallo, "Black Sabbath" with Boris Karloff, "Planet of Vampires" with Barry Sullivan , "Kill baby kill" , "Hatchet for the honeymoon" , "5 dolls for an August Moon" , "Torture of chamber of baron blood" with "Lisa and the Devil" with Telly Savalas and his last one "Schock" . Though Bava also made other genres as Peplum : "Hercules in the haunted world" , sex comedy : "Four times that night", Viking movie : "Knives of the avenger" and Oriental fantasy : "The wonders of Aladdin" . The picture will appeal to terror genre buffs. Rating 7.5/10.