Lamberto Bava

Lamberto Bava (born 3 April 1944) is an Italian film director. Born in

A meeting with director Pupi Avati led to Bava directing his own feature film Macabre in 1980 which was co-written with Pupi and Antonio Avati.^[3] The film stars Bernice Stegers as Jane, a woman who has an affair with a man (Stanko Molnar), who dies. After his death, Jane keeps his severed head in her refrigerator and performs erotic acts with it.^[5] According to Lamberto Bava, after seeing Macabre, Mario told him "Now I can die in peace".^[3] Mario actually died later in 1980.^[3]

Following the release of Macabre, Lamberto Bava worked in advertising and continued to write stories for potential future film projects.^[6] He was approached by director Dario Argento to assist him with his giallo film Tenebre (1982), wherein Bava is credited as an assistant director.^[6][7] In 1983, Lamberto Bava directed his second feature film as a director, the giallo film A Blade in the Dark.^[6] A Blade in the Dark was originally developed as a television film shot in four 25-minute segments on a very low budget. The film stars Andrea Occhipinti as the music composer Bruno, a man who becomes involved in a series of murders while staying at a secluded villa.^[8]

Bava's next two film projects were in different genres than his previous giallo and horror film output. Bava was given a script for Blastfighter, a film originally written as a remake of the Australian film Mad Max with the intention of giving it to director Lucio Fulci.^[9] Blastfighter starred Michael Sopkiw as Tiger, a detective who had been released from prison for shooting the man who killed his wife. Tiger moves into the woods with his daughter where he is terrorized by a group of thugs.^[10] Lamberto's next film, Monster Shark, was a science fiction film about a mutated shark that goes on a killing spree with two marine biologists attempting to track down the creature to stop it.^[9]

Late 1980s theatrical and television films

In 1985, Lamberto Bava reteamed with Dario Argento on the film Demons.^[11] Argento co-wrote and produced Bava's film about a theater showing invitation-only screenings of a horror film. In the theater's lobby, a young woman is scratched by a display in the lobby and transforms into a hideous creature who then attacks other audience members, spreading her demonic infection.^[11][12] The film was followed by the sequel Demons 2 in 1986 which had many of the same cast and crew members from Demons.^[11] Demons 2 features a television program which causes an outbreak of zombies in an apartment complex.^[13] Bava also made the television film Midnight Killer the same year.^[11] The film is about a series of murders which are similar to one that was committed 15 years prior, despite the fact that the murderer supposedly died in a fire.^[14] Bava makes a cameo in the film as a photographer at the beginning of the film.^[11] While working on Midnight Killer, Bava began preparing his next film, Delirium (1987).^[13] Delerium stars Serena Grandi as Gioia, a model for Pussycat magazine. Gioia's co-workers end up murdered through bizarre means including pitchforks and bees and then their corpses posed in front of photos of her, which Gioia receives in the mail from the murderer.^[15]

Bava returned to television work making several episodes of a series of hour-long films produced by Dario Argento.

Filmography

Title	Year	Credited as				Notes	Ref(s)
		Director	Screenwriter	Assistant director	Other
The Road to Fort Alamo	1964			Yes			[25][26]
Planet of the Vampires	1965			Yes			[27][28]
Savage Gringo	1966			Yes			[29]
Kill, Baby, Kill				Yes			[30][31]
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs				Yes			[25]
Danger: Diabolik	1968			Yes			[32][33]
Hatchet for the Honeymoon	1970			Yes			[34]
Roy Colt & Winchester Jack				Yes			[25]
Baron Blood	1972			Yes			[35]
The Kiss	1974			Yes			[36][37]
Lisa and the Devil				Yes			[38]
Last Cannibal World	1977			Yes	Yes	Continuity	[39][40]
Shock			Yes	Yes			[41]
Inferno	1980			Yes			[42][43]
Cannibal Holocaust				Yes			[44][45]
Macabre		Yes	Yes				.[46][47]
Tenebrae	1982			Yes			[48][49]
A Blade in the Dark	1983	Yes			Yes	Producer, editing	[50][51]
Blastfighter	1984	Yes					[52][53]
Monster Shark	—	Yes					[54][55]
Demons	1985	Yes	Yes				[56][57]
Demons 2	1986	Yes	Yes				[58][59]
Midnight Killer	1986	Yes	Yes		Yes	Producer, film editor	[60][61][62]
Delirium	1987	Yes					[63][64]
Body Puzzle	1992	Yes	Yes				[61][65][66]
Rabid Dogs	1998			Yes			[67]
The Torturer	2005[failed verification]	Yes	Yes				[68]
Ghost Son	2007[failed verification]	Yes	Yes				[69]

Television work

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Title	Year	Credited as			Notes	Ref(s)
		Director	Screenwriter	Other
"La Venere d'ille"	1981	Yes	Yes			[4]
Graveyard Disturbance	1987	Yes	Yes	Yes	Uncredited role as the Shop Keeper.	[18][17]
Until Death	1988	Yes	Yes			[18][19]
The Ogre	1989	Yes	Yes	Yes	Uncredited role as a man in the bar	[18]
Dinner with a Vampire	1989	Yes	Yes			[18][17]
La maschera del demonio	1990	Yes				[21][19]
The Prince of Terror	1999	Yes				[21]
Eyewitness	1999	Yes				[21]
School of Fear	1999	Yes				[21]
The Man Who Didn't Want to Die	2007	Yes				[21]

• Turno di notte (Italian TV series)^{[citation needed]}
• Fantaghirò
• Fantaghirò 2
• Fantaghirò 3
• The Dragon Ring (television film)
• Fantaghirò 4 (television film)
• Princess Alisea (television film)
• Fantaghirò 5 (television film)
• The Princess and the Pauper
• Pirates: Blood Brothers
• Human Currency (television miniseries)
• Visions of Murder (television film)
• Tailor-Made Murder (television film)
• Kammerspiel (television film)

References