Rainey Dawn The first thing I want to mention is I do not like the American title "Kill, Baby, Kill" - it's sounds very cheesy. The film is not as cheesy as the title suggests. It would do better with a simple title like maybe "The Girl" or "The Ghost" -- but what do I know? LOL.It's all eye candy and little story to me. The little ghost girl shows up and people kill themselves. The older woman in the mansion knows the story behind the girl.The story is drawn out a bit to long - could have been shorter. There are some boring scenes that could have been left out all together or shortened.This is another movie I wanted to like better than I do.4.5/10

Lee Eisenberg It's easy to think of Italian cinema as exclusively Fellini or Visconti (both of whom definitely have their merits). But it's also worth knowing about Mario Bava, probably Italy's most renowned horror director. He directed a number of eerie movies in the giallo genre, among them 1966's Gothic "Operazione paura" ("Kill, Baby, Kill" in English). In this movie, a doctor goes to a Carpathian village to investigate a series of deaths. All of the victims have had coins embedded in them. The answer to the mystery lies beyond the grave.Martin Scorsese apparently considers this Bava's best movie. I don't know if I personally have a favorite Bava movie, but this one is certainly up there. There are of course a few cheap shocks, but two scenes really caught my eye. One is the scene looking down the staircase, which looks as if it's paying homage to Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo". But even more impressive is the scene where the doctor is repeatedly running through the same room. I assumed that he had ended up in some sort of existential hell (as in Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit"). A really neat trick.The characters themselves didn't come across as all that important. While watching the doctor, I kept thinking that he looked like Rod Taylor. Meanwhile, the main woman looked like Julie Christie, and the burgomaster looked like James Carville.All in all, a really fun movie. Grazie, Signor Bava!

matheusmarchetti Mario Bava may well be the most influential horror director of all time. His works have admittedly served as inspiration not only among horror directors, but well-regarded auteurs such as Federico Fellini, Tim Burton and David Lynch. He's basically responsible for how horror films are made today, as his "Twitch of the Death Nerve" and "Blood and Black Lace" single-handedly spawned the whole slasher craze of the 70's and 80's. In the case of "Kill Baby, Kill", Bava created the footprint for all ghost stories/haunted house films that came after, ranging from Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" and Bava's own "Lisa and the Devil" (where he would elevate a similarly structured story to an art level) to almost every single Asian horror movie being produced nowadays (without Melissa Graps there would be no Sadako), and it still is one of the best of it's kind, even if the years that passed did affect it a little. The story, which follows a doctor who comes to investigate a mysterious death at a remote village cursed by an evil spirit, starts out slowly but menacingly, with a unrelenting sense of dread that builds up every minute. Something lurks in the dark, patiently waiting to attack, and gradually making it's terrifying appearance as the secret behind the strange murders become more and more evident, all building up to a deliriously nightmarish and gorgeously photographed final act, with Bava's demented, colorful visual style at it's terrifying best. The film's dream quality is further enhanced by the rather stiff performances, and whether it was intentional or not, it certainly works for the best. Giacomo Rossi Stewart does his best as a sympathetic, suave hero, and has great chemistry with Erika Blanc, who performs a more 'virginal' role for a change. Carlo Rusticelli's score is not as memorable as his other works for the director, and is often overused in the picture, but doesn't truly damage it. Only one could only wish a better soundtrack was used to make it's hypnotic tone, well, even more hypnotic. Much like in Argento's "Inferno", some have complained about the lack of action in the final 5 minutes or so, as it would've seemed obligatory that there would a more epic confrontation in the end. That being said, the ending does not bother me, and though it could've been slightly more elaborate, it perfectly matches the rest of the film - a near-perfect ending to a near-perfect classic. Overall, a flawed, but truly unique and throughly fascinating supernatural opus from the all time Maestro of Fear.

MovieGuy01 I really enjoyed Kill Baby Kill, directed by Mario Bava. It is about a doctor called Dr. Eswai, he is called by a man called Inspector Kruger to a small village to perform an autopsy on a woman who has died under suspicious circumstances. The coachman leaves Dr. Eswai at the boundary of the village and advises him to return, since the place would has been abandoned by God. Dr. Eswai is helped in the autopsy by Monica Schuftan, and they find a coin in the heart of the woman. Inspector Kruger goes to the Graps Villa to investigate the rumours about a local curse that is around the village. The villagers say that the curse is the ghost of a girl called Melissa. which is harming the villagers. Ruth, who is the local witch and mistress of Burgomaster Karl, tries to protect the daughter of the innkeeper, Nadienne, with magic under the demand of Dr. Eswai. Dr. Eswai goes to the villa and trys to stop an evil curse on the superstitious villagers brought on by Melissa. I found this to be a very creepy film even though it was made around 40 years ago it still had an effect on me.