Macabro

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Summary: Macabre (1997) d: Bava, Lamberto
Review: Son of Italy's much loved Mario Bava, Lamberto [Bay of Blood (1971); A Blade In the Dark (1983)] Bava debut's his career with this necro-character study of a woman named Jane. A slow pounding piece that has many of the characters in the film doing nothing but living there own lives. Nobody seems too concerned that Jane is spending so much time sneaking off leaving her children un-attended, besides her little girl who decides to drown her brother in the bathtub for some much needed attention. When she learns of the tragedy Jane and her boyfriend rush home only to get into a violent car accident before reaching their destination. The boyfriends head is decapitated. Jane is later released from a mental home, and we follow her decent into madness. She moves into her ex's apartment and seems to have found a new lover. "Has she found a ghastly new way to satisfy her lust, or is sexual depravity all in the head?" While watching this one, you can see the obvious influences of his father. A bizarre and stylish thriller that gives the viewer a confined feeling of imprisonment. Bava continuously shows us the ice box creating an unnerving suspense. Even though the viewer knows what it in the fridge, the shocks still abound in the last few minutes, but there is very little splatter and gore, and much cheese FX. Worth the purchase for those interested in Italian horror cinema only. Others beware. Disc includes: Theatrical Trailer and `Ahead for Horror: Lamberto Bava on Macabre'.

Rating:
Summary: Macabre (1997) d: Bava, Lamberto
Review: Son of Italy's much loved Mario Bava, Lamberto [Bay of Blood (1971); A Blade In the Dark (1983)] Bava debut's his career with this necro-character study of a woman named Jane. A slow pounding piece that has many of the characters in the film doing nothing but living there own lives. Nobody seems too concerned that Jane is spending so much time sneaking off leaving her children un-attended, besides her little girl who decides to drown her brother in the bathtub for some much needed attention. When she learns of the tragedy Jane and her boyfriend rush home only to get into a violent car accident before reaching their destination. The boyfriends head is decapitated. Jane is later released from a mental home, and we follow her decent into madness. She moves into her ex's apartment and seems to have found a new lover. "Has she found a ghastly new way to satisfy her lust, or is sexual depravity all in the head?" While watching this one, you can see the obvious influences of his father. A bizarre and stylish thriller that gives the viewer a confined feeling of imprisonment. Bava continuously shows us the ice box creating an unnerving suspense. Even though the viewer knows what it in the fridge, the shocks still abound in the last few minutes, but there is very little splatter and gore, and much cheese FX. Worth the purchase for those interested in Italian horror cinema only. Others beware. Disc includes: Theatrical Trailer and 'Ahead for Horror: Lamberto Bava on Macabre'.

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Summary: It Drags On and On.............
Review: The storyline is interesting. The characters have some depth. What went wrong? First of all, the movie drags on WAY too much. Second, the dubbing is atrocious (especially that nasty little girl).The head in the freezer is a great idea, and making love to it....well, that just turns my stomach (I think that was the idea, but still!)I would have to say that the only part of the movie worth watching is the last ten or fifteen minutes, when things actually start to happen. Other than that, this film is a boring, pretentious stab at horror.

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Summary: A Boring Waste in Excess
Review: This boring "horror" film does not add up to all the hype the teenage reviewers have given it, it is a very boring, very common picture. Bava spends about 1 hour in the most anti-climatic story telling ever devised by man, he drags us through a silly story line and then wants us to hang along. Hey Mr. Bava, perchance you can add some actual horror or fright in this movie? The ending is stupid also because the head suddenly bites the blind person, who was a lousy character to begin with. Grade F for pointless.....