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Kill, Baby... Kill!

Original title: Operazione paura
  • 19661966
  • GPGP
  • 1h 23m
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6.9/10
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Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966)
A Carpathian village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl, prompting a coroner and a medical student to uncover her secrets while a witch attempts to protect the villagers.
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A Carpathian village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl, prompting a coroner and a medical student to uncover her secrets while a witch attempts to protect the villagers.A Carpathian village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl, prompting a coroner and a medical student to uncover her secrets while a witch attempts to protect the villagers.A Carpathian village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl, prompting a coroner and a medical student to uncover her secrets while a witch attempts to protect the villagers.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
6.9K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
17,819
4,168
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • Mario Bava
    • Writers
      • Romano Migliorini(story)
      • Roberto Natale(story)
      • Mario Bava(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Giacomo Rossi Stuart
      • Erika Blanc
      • Fabienne Dali
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Mario Bava
    • Writers
      • Romano Migliorini(story)
      • Roberto Natale(story)
      • Mario Bava(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Giacomo Rossi Stuart
      • Erika Blanc
      • Fabienne Dali
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    • 83User reviews
    • 98Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

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    Giacomo Rossi Stuart
    Giacomo Rossi Stuart
    • Dr. Paul Eswai
    • (as Giacomo Rossi-Stuart)
    Erika Blanc
    Erika Blanc
    • Monica Schuftan
    Fabienne Dali
    Fabienne Dali
    • Ruth
    • (as Fabienne Dalì)
    Piero Lulli
    • Inspector Kruger
    Luciano Catenacci
    Luciano Catenacci
    • Burgomeister Karl
    • (as Max Lawrence)
    Micaela Esdra
    • Nadienne
    Franca Dominici
    • Martha
    Giuseppe Addobbati
    Giuseppe Addobbati
    • Innkeeper
    Mirella Pamphili
    Mirella Pamphili
    • Irena Hollander
    • (as Mirella Panfili)
    Valerio Valeri
    Valerio Valeri
    • Melissa Graps
    Giovanna Galletti
    Giovanna Galletti
    • Baroness Graps
    • (as Giana Vivaldi)
    • Director
      • Mario Bava
    • Writers
      • Romano Migliorini(story) (screenplay)
      • Roberto Natale(story) (screenplay)
      • Mario Bava(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Melissa Graps, the ghost girl, is played by a boy, billed as 'Valerio Valeri.'
    • Goofs
      Nadine is put to bed nude, but after the doctor visits and she is left sleeping, somehow she appears dressed in a nightgown in the next shot.
    • Alternate versions
      In the United States, an edited version of this film was released as "Curse of the Living Dead" as part of "Living Dead" triple feature aimed at drive-ins. Other releases, including home video, under the title "Kill Baby, Kill" are the more complete version.
    • Connections
      Featured in Fangs of the Living Dead (1969)

    User reviews83

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    7/10
    A Great Introduction to Mario Bava
    A doctor (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) goes to a small town in the Carpathian mountains some time around 1910 in order to perform an autopsy. The villagers are generally not pleased with this, but he presses on. At the same time, there is rumor of a ghost that appears just prior to death... and somehow these two events are connected.

    I had not much experience with the work of Mario Bava, having been more familiar with the splatter subgenre of his son Lamberto. But I had always heard great things of Mario, and knew this film was considered by many to be a strong, memorable piece... most notably for a scene where the doctor chases himself or a doppelganger through a series of identical rooms. This scene is pretty great and pulled off very well for the time, no special effects needed. The Gothic atmosphere is also well captured, on par with Hammer films or the Poe works of Roger Corman.

    I find this film to be something of a tightrope between Fritz Lang's "M" and Peter Medak's "Changeling". Like "M", there is a leitmotif connected to the evil force -- in "M", the whistled tune. Here, a bouncing ball. Likewise, the ball here is somewhat replicated in "Changeling", though no longer as a forewarning to the killer. Also, the colorful imagery here really anticipates the later Italian directors, particularly Argento.

    Although Luca Palmerini calls the film overrated, he does say the "to the devil a daughter" theme started here and was taken up by Fellini in Toby Dammitt in "Spirits of the Dead" and later in Friedkin's "The Exorcist". I think this is a bit of stretch to connect this film to "Exorcist". Again, the white, bouncing ball symbolizing a dead child, as would later be done to great effect in "The Changeling", is the real key here to future film.

    To really understand and appreciate Bava, I feel one would have to watch "Black Sabbath" or "Planet of the Vampires", but this film shall be considered my introduction to the man, and I loved him from the first camera shot. I would strongly urge others to meet him in a similar way. Different releases exist, some probably better than others. I watched two different DVDs, the better one being produced by Diamond Entertainment, but I assume a still better print exists.
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    • Release date
      • March 5, 1970 (Colombia)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Language
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Curse of the Living Dead
    • Filming locations
      • Villa Grazioli, Grottaferrata, Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • Production company
      • F.U.L. Films
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    • Budget
      • $50,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 23 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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