Shock (1. 97. 7) - Articles - TCM. Shock (1. 97. 7). Italian filmmaker Mario Bava came to direct his final feature film in a roundabout way - roundabout because he had by 1. The son of a theatrical and silent film special effects man and a dab hand himself at in- camera legerdemain that teased state- of- the- art thrills from effects perfected before the advent of cinema, Bava's technical prowess allowed him to transform the countryside around Rome into the Gothic hinterlands of Black Sunday (1. Black Sabbath (1. Nordic battlefields of Erik, the Conqueror (1. Knives of the Avenger (1. The Road to Fort Alamo (1. Roy Colt and Winchester Jack (1. Planet of the Vampires (1. Danger: Diabolik (1. A lifelong fan of horror and the fantastic, Bava's deft manipulation of the traditional spook show trappings of The Whip and the Body (1. Blood and Black Lace (1. Find trailers, reviews, and all info for Shock by Mario Bava on this page. For a better experience on MUBI. Overview of Shock, 1977, directed by Mario Bava, with Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin, at Turner Classic Movies. Kill, Baby.. Kill (1. After his Gothic magnum opus Lisa and the Devil (1. The House of Exorcism, with vomitous exorcism scenes added in postproduction in an artless bid to cash in on the international success of William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1. Rabid Dogs (1. 97. Bava lapsed into a period of acute, immobilizing depression. Not even the offer of a $1. Dino De Laurentiis' 1. King Kong could rouse Bava from his career doldrums. Bava fils persuaded producer Turi Vasile to buy the property for his Laser Film, and then set about reworking the script by night after workdays spent toiling in an Italian ad agency run by sometimes filmmaker Ruggero Deodato (later director of the controversial Italo- cannibal shocker Cannibal Holocaust, whose . Shock (1977) / DVD Dolby, Widescreen / Horror-Ghosts & Supernatural / 827058110495. Shock (original title: Schock) is a 1977 Italian horror film directed by Mario Bava. It was Bava's last theatrical feature before he died of a heart attack in 1980. Shock (1977) is a movie genre Thriller produced by Laser Films was released in Italy on 1977-08-12 with director Mario Bava and had been written by Francesc. Retitled Shock (1. Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1. Mario Bava out of his two- year funk. Keeping costs low was the use for the narrative's principal setting a villa borrowed from Italian actor Enrico Maria Salerno, and a small cast headed by Daria Nicolodi. Nicolodi had been the lover and collaborator of Dario Argento, a film critic turned filmmaker who had contributed to the script for Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1. Nicolodi had starred in Argento's Profondo Rosso (aka Deep Red, 1. Suspira, but when Argento (by then the father of Nicolodi's daughter Asia) cast American actress Jessica Harper in the role Nicolodi assumed would be hers she fell into her own depression, reduced by anorexia to a mere 8. Redeemed by Mario Bava, Nicolodi would channel her pain, and exorcise some personal demons, while playing the mother of a boy who seems to be in psychic communication with his long- lost and presumed dead father. Though Mario Bava took to the new project with characteristic gusto (an inveterate practical joker, the elder Bava kept the mood on location light and happy), he turned over a quarter of the direction to Lamberto, feigning fatigue so that the younger man (who had already assisted his father on several films) could gain invaluable directing experience. Credit for Shock's tentpole scare sequences is divided between father and son, with Mario designing a rotisserie- style gimbal for a bit involving Nicolodi's gravity- defying encounter with a ghostly presence and Lamberto concocting an unexpected jump scare that occurs when Nicolodi's onscreen son (David Colin, Jr.) rushes into her arms, only to turn into the corpse of Husband No. Enrico Maria Salerno's adult son Nicola, who was doing double duty as the film's assistant production designer). For the film's gory conclusion, set for the most part in the dark cellar of the family home (a plot point that seems inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's . They were the last of the low- end studios, and very little was being shot. I think we were the only movie being shot there at the time. Those were the last years of the Italian movie business. Shock would be Mario Bava's last feature film. He completed one more project, the telefilm La Venere d'Ille (1. Lamberto and again featuring Nicolodi as leading lady - which RAI- TV shelved for three years and broadcast in 1. Bava's death from a sudden heart attack on April 2. By Richard Harland Smith. Sources: Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark by Tim Lucas (Video Watchdog, 2.
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