Oct 11, 2020
Macabro (Macabre, 1980)
"I couldn't care less about what she does every night, about her fridge, and not even about her visitors! I don't give a damn! I'm very much aware of Jane's madness, but with all these tales you don't sound too sane either, Mr. Duval!"
#Macabro#Macabre#lamberto bava#italian cinema#films i done watched#Horror film#Blood tw#Nudity cw#Bernice Stegers#Stanko Molnar#Veronica Zinny#Roberto Posse#Ferdinando Orlandi#Fernando Pannullo#Elisa Kadigia Bove#Ubaldo Continiello#Antonio Avati#Roberto Gandus#Pupi Avati#Oliver Hardy voice: Well‚ love of Italian genre films‚ that's another hot mess you've gotten me into!#Actually I've seen this before‚ a decade or more ago‚ and on rewatch I find a film much less sleazy and much less excessive than the one I#Remember. There's some nudity and a little gore but compared to some of its contemporaries it's positively tame#But is it good?? Eh. It's fine. Sadly the younger Bava just didn't have that same grasp of the visually flamboyant or the eerily beautiful#Stegers gives a very fine performance (considering the film she's making) and Molnar is no slouch either. What Bava jnr lacks in#A creative eye he makes up for in his confidence with handling suspense. Very little happens for the vast majority of the film but its#Never boring. He's also ballsy to take such an incredibly worn out trope (what's in the fridge?? We all know what's in the fridge. Every#Single viewer. Even a cat passing a TV playing this would know what's in the fridge) and treating it with such a straight face#Whatever subtlety and lightness of touch Bava employs‚ and whatever goodwill the viewer can muster‚ all goes out the window in what is#Easily one of the stupidest final shots of a film ever. Based on a true story‚ the opening credits claim. I think jot Mr Bava