The Monster's Den: Italian Horror-Mario Bava/Dario Argento/Lucio Fulci
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Join Pete Pardo & Chris Alo for a look at some of the classics of Italian horror by the three master directors Mario Bava, Dario Argento, and Lucio Fulci. #italianhorror
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I always thought Dr. Freudstein in Fulci's "House by The Cemetery" was one of the creepiest monsters in horror movie history.
Sergio Martino's "Torso" also had some scenes that were a blueprint for US slasher movies.
Oh yeah!! Good Point I forgot about Torso!!!! It’s great!!!
I love Torso, it's a pity that Suzy Kendall was dubbed here though. The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971) is one of his best too.
One of my personal faves. The women......lord 😮
Bava - Black Sabbath ['Drop of Water' story scared the piss out of me when I was a kid...still does]
Argento - Deep Red [flip flops with Suspiria --- also love Inferno and Phenomena]
Fulci - The Beyond [His masterpiece --- City of the Living Dead following closely along with Zombie]
Saw "City of the Living Dead" at a theater in 1983 when it was called "The Gates of Hell".
BAVA: HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON
ARGENTO:SUSPIRIA
FULCI:THE BEYOND
Suspiria (1977) is a work of art . The music is excellent too .
I saw Suspiria when it first had it's theatrical release. I just heard that it was mind blowing. I thought "Cool, another Friday the 13th". I never saw anything like It in my life. It was Alice in Wonderland went down the wrong rabbit hole. The color palette, kills, and the Goblin score made it a theatrical experience that I will never forget. The remake that I have dubbed "The Dancing Witches" was..... Well, I won't say anything more.
Bruno Mattei was another Italian horror film director that had whacky and crazy gore infested scenes in them but he was famous for taking the premise of classic 80s films and ripping them off with his own zombie spin. The movies aren't great but they're worth a watch.
Baby Boom.....with zombies.
All three are great with some pretty varied films:
Bava - Black Sunday
Argento - Bird with the Crystal Plumage (maybe a good place to start with Italian horror)
Fulci - The Beyond
Perfect stuff for Halloween!
I was expecting Chris's favorite Bava film to be "Black Sabbath".🤔
Boris karloff kills it in that film. I'm not a big Bava fan but my fav film by him has to be rabid dogs 1974
It's up there! But Barbara Steele? I can't take my eyes off her. :)
@@chrisalo2989 Have you seen The She Beast?
@@XenoMorphGaming79 Black Sunday is by far my favorite Bava film and Bay of Blood.
For those wanting the 4K Suspiria but dont have 4K player (like me have 4K TV but standard player). There is a 4K print on normal Blu Ray available I have it and it is absolutely amazing quality blew me away.
Awesome episode!! And exilent picks! My favorites are Mario Bava "Blood and Black Lace" . Dario Argento "Inferno” Lucio Fulci "The Beyond" my favorite of Italian movies
Now your in my wheel house love Italian horror my top 3 of each are as follows
Dario
1. Suspiria
2. Tenebrae
3. Inferno
Mario
1. Black Sunday
2. Bay Of Blood
3. Baron Blood
Lucio
1. The Beyond
2. New York Ripper
3. The House By The Cemetery
Really great show! Had the honor of seeing Goblin do the soundtrack live while playing the film in Baltimore. A dream come true. Suspiria is my fave horror movie
I would pay money to see Chris doing a long review of Dario's Dracula 3D 😁
House by the Cemetery is on the Showtime app this month. I forgot all about that trailer for Suspiria. That was scary.
Sergio Martino is also a master director, not so much horror but thriller & suspense. His films starring goddess Edwige Fenech are amazing.
Great Show Pete and Chris! I Love that you picked Deep Red to speak of,my fav.! The sound track is AWESOME;The Suspira soundtrack by Goblin also is Phenomenal too!!!! All of their albums are GREAT!!! Love it has Joan Bennett from Dark Shadows ( her and her sister were silver screan legands)as the manager of the academy!
Need a whole show for Bava!
Rabid Dogs or Kidnapped is pretty dang unsettling. That movie freaked me out!
Thank you for The Monster's Den: Italian Horror - Mario Bava/Dorio Argento /Lucio Fulci🎤🎸🎵🥁
Hello! I really like this series. Italian horror classics movies. Thanks Chris and Pete!.
Riccardo Freda and Antonio Margheriti also made some very good italian gothic horror movies. Another great horror director from Italy is Pupi Avati. For example, take a look at "The House with the Laughing Windows". Very recommendable if you like movies in the vein of "Don't Look Now". From the younger generation, Michele Soavi is a great director with movies like "The Sect" or "DellaMorte DellAmore".
House with Laughing Windows is excellent .
Black Sabbath ruined my childhood and I loved every minute of it. Searched the tv guide every week in the 70s as a kid.
A drop of water is the best best best
The evolution of Slasher flicks is: German Edgar Wallace movies --> Italian-German Edgar Wallace movies (where Dario Argento started out by making one) --> italian giallo flicks --> Slashers
Can’t go wrong with those 6 choices and lucky enough to own them all! Hey Chris! I got Yes on 8- trac 😂
Nothing like 8 track tapes... a loud" kerchunk" in the middle of a classic rock song.
I sometimes watch Suspiria just for the beauty of it. I was stunned the first time I saw it.
Guess I will have to get it in 4K now.
What a Gorefest on the Maestro's Of Italian Horror ! Every film reviewed is a must see. My choices are Bava's
"Baron Blood" (1972), just love the gothic atmosphere of the film.
Secondly, Fulchi's "Zombi 2" (1979),
which is the first "Video Nastie" I remember seeing here in England back in the mid 80"s. Finally, Argento's "Opera" (1987) which has that unforgettable scene of a bullet being shot through a doors spy hole.
I really enjoyed La ragazza che sapeva troppo, pretty cool early b&w giallo indeed featuring the great John Saxon, RIP. Also The Perfume of the Lady in Black from 74 has definitely a beautifully-intriguing Mimsy Farmer performance with that unforgettable, surrealistic ending scene.
Love me some Mimsy, not too crazy about the shocking ending but everything before I think is brilliant. I like Autopsy as well with her, despite her wearing a weird wig.
Really enjoying these Monster's Den episodes, thanks for your time and effort, please continue.
Never even heard of Deep Red. Found it, watching it!
I had the good fortune to see Goblin in concert back in 2009. I love Suspiria but Deep Red shades it for me. However, the opening of Suspiria is one of the great openings!
Have you seen the film Absurd 1981 by italian director amato. Was banned in uk for a while. Scared the hell out of me in the eighties. The cirular saw scene man. A brooding menace of a film especially at the time.
Thank you so much for this video, so timely. I’m starting to really get into Bava big time, have seen five of his films so far and have more on the way. I’m a big visual and atmosphere guy, so Bava is perfect for me. Want to get into other Italian horror stuff and you guys gave me some other directors to check out. I saw Zombi 2 from Fulci about twenty years ago but nothing else - looks like I have some gory stuff ahead of me.
As far as other non Bava Italian horror, I’ve seen real campy public domain titles like Bloody Pit of Horror, Lady Frankenstein, Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks and on the more serious side, a few Barbara Steele films like Long Hair of Death and The Ghost. Good stuff, but I think a different world awaits me based on the way you guys are talking.
Thanks again for this video.
Check out umberto lenzi he is really good as well but more fun and enjoyable to watch less on visuals but more on just goody silly carnage
Spasmo (1974) with Suzy Kendall is excellent, maybe his best or very close in my opinion.
I've only seen Suspiria, Deep Red and The Gates Of Hell. Always wanted to know where to go next. Thanks for the suggestions! Also, love Bruno Mattei's Night of the Zombies (aka Virus).
I love all of these flicks, top notch stuff. Pete and Chris would be awesome neighbors.
I think our wives would get sick of us watching horror films together 24-7!
I remember a movie from 1973 that scared me silly at the time called "Death Smiles On A Murderer". Klaus Kinski was in that one. Not one of these directors, but a fellow named
Joe D'Amato. Very atmospheric as I recall, although I must admit, I haven't seen it in forever. But it obviously made an impression, that I remember it all these years later.
BAVA (my fave): Bay of Blood, Kill Baby Kill, Planet of the Vampires
ARGENTO: Inferno, Phenomena, Deep Red
FULCI: The Psychic, Zombie, Conquest
The Horror Section of an '80's video store. One of the great joys that our kids and grandkids will never experience.
Right on!
Maybe in the US and other countries. In Germany, however, many horror videos only showed a shortened, cut version, including Evil Dead, all Argento movies from 1975 to 1987, most Fulci movies (obviously), Dawn of the Dead, and many more. As a horror fan you needed to get a foreign VHS or a copy of it somehow, e.g. of the Dutch versions. They used to be uncut and had the original soundtrack with Dutch subtitles. REALLY frustrating and annoying. At least now, 30 or more years later, many of those movies get an uncut DVD/Blu-Ray release in Germany. Finally.
Chris and Pete - thanks for a great discussion of a genre I've never watched but, as always, your reviews and discussions bring up watch. Another Italian horror episode would be great and hope you will consider it. Thanks again.
Cool video, guys. I have a handful of Italian horror, but I've really been itching to get more! Maybe I'll be able to track some down this weekend.
I had forgotten all about some of those movies. This is great memory lane stuff, and all that violence was so...Italian.
Chris was damn perfect on his definition on Italian horror. BTW: Pete and Chris have you ever watched any movie by Coffin Joe?
Coffin Joe is great!!
Dario Argento used to have great soundtracks for his movies: Morricone (Uccello dalle piume di Cristallo), Goblin (Profondo Rosso, Suspiria), Keith Emerson (Inferno), Iron Maiden and Motorhead and Goblin (Phenomena), Italian metal bands (Opera). He also asked to Iron Maiden to record the Soundtrack for 'Opera' (1987), but they refused. Another great italian horror film: "La casa dalle finestre che ridono", "The house of the smiling windows (?)", by Pupi Avati.
Awesome picks! I can never get enough of Italian horror. I’d have to say my three would be Bay of Blood, Deep Red, and The Beyond.
Argento - Deep Red, Suspiria, Inferno
Bava - Kill Baby... Kill, Black Sabbath, Mask of Satan
Fulci (have not seen much here) - The Beyond, City of the Living Dead. Also seen Black Cat, but no...
Tenebrae is my favorite Argento. So many great, cinematic shots and bizarre, shocking kills. He had so many outstanding giallos (even his earlier "animal trilogy" is entertaining, though less flamboyant than his later releases), but this is the one that brings all of the elements together in the most coherent manner, at least for me. But yeah, love them all - and Bava and Fulci too. All good stuff. And how about a shout out to Michele Soavi? Another awesome Itialian horror director who followed Argento and Fulci into the 90's.
Thought the 2 Demons films would get a Honourable mention especially because of there soundtracks as well, even though they were cheesy in places, Sally made a great Demon especially the scene in front of the lift. But wasn't John Saxon in the film Cannibal Apocalypse I remember seeing that film in the very early 80s.
Some trivia for you Giallo refers to the muder mystery paperback novels which came out in Italy before these guys started. They were quite grisly and were considered trashy. They were coloured yellow and Giallo is the Italian word for yellow.
Alo should be a comedian he's hilarious.
I agree with chris pick on bava and argento. Fulci i go with the beyond. With argento i would mention the under rated opera, really like inferno also.
Excellent 🙂 covered my favourite genre of horror (along with Japanese/Korean). Argento is my favourite horror director along with Carpenter. Just wondered Pete if you'd seen Sleepless from his later work? It's not quite up there with Suspiria etc but not far away to be honest especially the opening sequence.
Yep, I have!
@@seaoftranquilityprog cool 🙂 I'm recommending it to people tbh as it very much exceeded my expectations
Great show guys! Love th big 3...
But without MB, th other two may never have happened. Mario was a legendary artist! So many groundbreaking moments...The Whip and the Body is a haunting nightmarish masterpiece...like a moving, living painting, it draws you into a dreamscape. You see more with each viewing..(must get th German release for proper colors)
I gotta go with Inferno as my personal favorite Argento-lotsa symbolism..
Very Bavaesque & Keith Emerson's sndtrk might be th greatest of all time!!!...any genre!!!..😊
No surprise for my Fulci pick- The Beyond--its a masterpiece!! Love th book of Eibon...and th creepy hotel setting...trippy as hell by th last 20 minutes!..Fabio Frizzi's sndtrk is brilliant!...(runner ups: Kill Baby Kill, Suspiria, & Don't Torture a Duckling...) Love Barbara Bouchet!!
And Edwige & Rosalba & all th euro-hotties😆...gotta love 'em all!
Sooo many great films..too many to mention!! Thnx again guys!! Happy Gialloween..haha. Bava for life!! 💀🔪💀🔪💀🔪...and Death!!!! 😊
Where is the survey of Italian Horror Soundtracks video? You must mention Bruno Nicolai.
BLACK SABBATH (1963)!! Why? Because I love the old classic horror anthology movies, such as all the AMICUS anthologies with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance. I wish you would have a whole episode devoted to the Amicus horror movies, which most people confuse as being Hammer movies, but aren't. Here's the list:
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Torture Garden (1967)
The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
Asylum (1971)
Tales From The Crypt (1972)
The Vault Of Horror (1973)
Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
From Beyond The Grave (1974)
The Uncanny (1977)
The Monster Club (1981)
I remember that since it seemed that no one else had saw the movie Suspiria, in our town but us three,...my sister said "we better not have imagined that crazy sh=t." Lol 😂. Seeing it on the big screen was amazing and definetly freaky. 👍👍 Great reviews guys as always and keep up the good work.
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My favorites:
Mario bava : Black sabbath
Dario argento : suspiria
Lúcio fulci : the beyond
Lamberto bava : demons
I love Giallo!!!
A well made one is brilliant but a poorly made one is atrocious as all the mystery and suspense gets chucked out the window as the killer can be easily identified within 20mins of the film. Argento is brilliant with cat o' nine tails and four flies on grey velvet really good giallos. The ones to avoid are films like killer nun and you'll die at midnight.
in comments always say Pete pardo brought me here lol I seen that on comments on other albums looking up I. UA-cam a few times
The two gothic horrors that Giorgio Ferroni directed are fantastic, in my top five Italian horrors: The Mill of The Stone Women and The Night of The Devils. Also, The House With The Laughing Windows and Zeder by Pupi Avati are masterpieces,, gothic horror mixed with the folklore of the pianura Padana, where Avati is from. Not sure how they would resonate with a non Italian viewer. I am Italian, and it has been interesting seeing Italian horror gain reputation abroad throughout the years. The English dubbing kills a lot of the atmosphere and the regional nuances of the various accents and dialects often spoken in these films.
Those 3 are great but I love Jess 'Jesus' Franko is definitely great even though he is a Spanish director, he directs in the style of Bava Argento and Fulci but as far as non horror Italian directors it's got to be Sergio Leoni ;Fellini of course was great too but Argento is my fav. I think. Bava and Fulci aren't far behind though. Deep Red is my favorite of his, Gates of Hell or City of the Living Dead for Fulci; then Bay Of Blood for Bava.
Look - I'm usually very polite and nice...BUT I tried to watch that Italian movie you guys hyped. The one with the killer with the duck voice. I was all excited thinking I was going to be scared. It wasn't scary at all to me. It wasn't even a shocking bloodbath. I could have easily eaten a plate of spaghetti WHILE watching it and not even gagged. If that scares you two, I would probably give you guys a heart attack just by jumping out of a closet....HAHAHA....But I love you guys to death! And I love these Monster's Den videos. Maybe I am just immune to the Italian genre?
P.S. - Your recommendation about the werewolf movie called Bad Moon was pretty good. That Eddie and Cruisers guy who played the werewolf had something in his eye that made him a convincing pre-transition werewolf. Plus, I loved the dog named Thor. When that stupid lawyer lady called the dog catcher to take him away because she thought he killed that con artist...I was like... I wouldn't rat my dog out even if he did kill someone. Then again, I am loyal. ;-)
Well, I don't think either of us said NY Ripper was scary...extreme, certainly!
Amazing show!!
You missed out the most gruesome Italian horror of all... Silvio Berlusconi.
‘Giallo’ (plural ‘gialli’) is pronounced like a ‘j’ - jallo, with the stress on the ‘a’.
Love Black Sabbath and Planet of the Vampire s
Bava: Kill Baby Kill
Argento: Opera
Fulci: House by the Cemetery
Bava is the Elvis Presley of Italian horror, Argento is the Beatles, Fulci is the Rolling Stones.
Italian horror is cool and Italian porn is the best 😎
I just wish I could understand the language. Sadly my school only offered French and Spanish as courses back in the day. Lame. Hopefully I can learn the Italian language one day. I don't really need to speak it (though that would be nice) but I really want to know what they are saying since I enjoy Italian films the most of any foreign films.
Better do, because English dubbing on each of those vintage giallos is utterly AWFUL! Same lame, flat voice actors with no passion for their job. These are films you need to watch in Italian with subs.
You forgot Ruggero Deodato, who directed "Cannibal Holocaust"
I think the animal cruelty in some of these movies, turns many people off I know it does for me.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 I think you're right.
Bay of blood is amazing
U should do with Chris a show about argento only
terror at the opera is a great Argento
Jump scares are more scarier then any blood gore or atmosphere just my opinion
Chris’ ratings story makes me wonder how many “G” or “PG” films sold tickets to kids who’d just sneak into R rated movies later…i know “Meet Joe Black” sold lots of tix to Star Wars junkies who literally sat down, watched the “Phantom Menace” just to walk out right afterwards
Love Italian horror and Japanese horror also.
What an episode! Luckily those directors get some recognition outside Italy, unfortunately Italian cinema has turned pretty much into bullshit in the last 40 years. There are no producers interested in making good films, so there's an incredible lack of money in filmmaking...
I don't think so. Giuseppe Tornatore and Paolo Sorrentino make quite impressive movies.
Edwige Fenech. Woof!
Only term I can think f to describe Italian horror is.....batshit insane lol
Bava's planet of the vampires you can see where Alien got it's feel and the space ship from.
Paisans: the literal Italian translation of “giallo” means “yellow”
They don't call Lucio Fulci the "Godfather of Gore" for nothing, that's for sure. I definitely do not recommend watching his movies on a full stomach.
Mario Bava
Kill, Baby...Kill! (great gothic horror)
Rabid Dogs (underrated final film)
Blood and Black Lace (early giallo)
Lucio Fulci
The Beyond (masterpiece)
Zombie Flesh Eaters (my first of his)
The Gates of Hell (saw in theater at 15)
Dario Argento
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (my favorite)
Le Cinque Giornate (wacky drama)
Phenomena (absolutely nutty film)
Suspiria - is visually really really interesting however... the fake blood is not very good. They dropped the ball on the blood. Wrong color paint and they needed to thin it out. I know you can’t dwell on it. I kept looking at the interior design. Bizarre
Italian horror godfathers = buckets of blood.abstract, surreal, unreal, sometimes doesn't make sense, but makes sense. Lol. Its like watching a series of your dreams or nightmares
In my opinion Fulci was the weakest out of the big three and relied too much on gore mostly in his films because his sense of direction was always unfocused and not that good many of his films from the 70's are often boring as he doesn't really know what he's doing or what he wants his film to be. one minute he wants to make a silly goofy slasher and then the next he wants to do a very serious detective film most of it just doesn't make sense but i guess thats what italian cinema is all about.
Yes, the surreal angle to many of these nightmarish films is not to everyone's taste, I do think his The Beyond is a masterpiece.
Not much for Mario Bava find him quite pretentious, in my opinion bay of blood and blood and black lace seem to focus on visuals and camerawork more than thrills and spills. Argento though has a nice mix of visuals, gore and story his giallos are quite thrilling and keep a good sense of mystery they also have a steady pace and don't drag on like many bava and fulci films. Fulci is fun but most of his films is just pure violence with long sections of the film being boring dialogue and filler, most of his films overall i find quite boring but when the violence starts his films get quite fun but for some reason they always seem slow paced. My fav italian directors are Umberto Lenzi and Ruggero. What does everyone else think?
Lenzi is very underrated. He's mostly known for the cannibal stuff but his best films IMO are his poliziesco movies with Maurizio Merli and Tomas Milian. He also directed some very fine giallo movies with Carroll Baker
Give me more Italian horror recommendations!!
The Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971) is a prime one.
Some great ones that were made by other directors:
A Whisper in the Dark (1976)
The Cursed Medallion (1975)
The House with Laughing Windows (1976)
Nero Veneziano (1978)
Spirits of Death (1972)
The Sect (1991)
A Blade in the Dark (1983)
Solamente Nero (1978)
Night Train Murders (1976)
Demons (1985)
Demons.
0 goodie ny ripper and city of living dead on shudder gonna wacth both now monster den never fails for good horror movie pics