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Old 26th May 2011, 08:00 AM
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Does no-one else think "Hatchet For The Honeymoon" is tremendously under-rated? I only saw it (finally) a year or so ago and couldn't believe how little good press it gets.

I suppose it depends what one "expects" from Bava, but I thought it a superb and fascinating film.

I've been rediscovering Bava this last year, buying DVD replacements of his flicks and such. The older I get, the more I appreciate his talents.
Yeah man, hatchet never seems to appear on the lists of 'Best Bava Movies', but I loved it when I first saw it last year!! Was creepy in places (all those Dummys are just odd!!!) and the ending was brilliant!! Deffo one I will watch many times over the coming years!!
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Old 26th May 2011, 02:33 PM
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Yeah man, hatchet never seems to appear on the lists of 'Best Bava Movies', but I loved it when I first saw it last year!! Was creepy in places (all those Dummys are just odd!!!) and the ending was brilliant!! Deffo one I will watch many times over the coming years!!
My three Bava favs, with no particular order:
- A Bay of Blood
- Black Sunday
- Hatchet for the Honeymoon

I would also add one episode from Black Sabbath: The Wurdalak.

Bava's the boss when it comes to stylish and moody horror with great camera work!

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I am in the middle of a long season of Bava reviews. Although he is credited with creating the Giallo with ‘Blood and Black Lace’, he never made another straight genre entry. Instead, the closest he came was with this trilogy of films from the early 1970s.

Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970) is certainly the most conventional of the three but still has a very strange atmosphere, sees most of the killings take place off screen and seems to reveal the killer part way through… or not.

A Bay of Blood (1971) has a very mixed up plot for a Giallo (although it does at least all resolve) but is most interesting for its twenty minute slasher movie sequence – made almost a decade before the slasher movie boom.

Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970) is certainly the best of the trilogy and one of Bava’s very best. A psycho killer take on the genre, the main character is hunting the killer of his mother, a killer whose identity is blurred in his mind and revealed piece by piece when he kills…

Catch up with all the reviews on my Mario Bava page.
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The latest Bava review, his grim and gritty crime thriller Rabid Dogs.
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BAY OF BLOOD
BLACK SUNDAY
BLACK SABBATH
FIVE DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON
SHOCK
RABID DOGS
HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON
DANGER DIABOLIK
I VAMPIRI
BLOOD AND BLACK LACE
PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES
THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
WHIP AND THE BODY
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Old 14th October 2011, 07:10 AM
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I picked up the Bava book last year, (in a moment of madness but glad I did it), but still havn't cracked it open. I need to revist all the films first before tucking in... I took a pic of the book a few months back, tastefully positioned alongside the DVD of Whip & The Body just to give it a sense of scale. It's a monster. Not sure how I'm gonna read it !

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Old 14th October 2011, 10:54 AM
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Wes, I clicked on the image of the book and got a pop up for a porn site!!!!
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Old 14th October 2011, 10:57 AM
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Damn.... probably cos the image host is the pornographer's choice... or so I'm told ahem... I'll try to attach the pics instead, many thanks Slowly !
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great to see a lot of HFTH fans....the more i see, the more i say to myself..."why didnt i just pull my finger out at the time??"...

loved TOTDN...whatever title its under, this is just about perfect, the ending alone catapulted this into the higher echelon, and to think i got it from the library...

HFTH....still dazed by the sheer brilliance of this, this will be mine before the years out

had black sunday/planet for years, my only bava as i missed L&TD when bbc1 showed it and always wanted more MB because they were different but similar....
had a chance to watch Hercules as well recently, wish i had now....

and Shock.......is an oddity. didnt Jr do a lot of it???
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Old 14th October 2011, 11:52 AM
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If you're in the UK and Ireland and you have a Sky dish handy, Mario Bava's 1965 western The Road To Fort Alamo turns up regurlay on movies4men...
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