HOOP-X #28 of CINEMONSTER's Hooptober X: Hooptober, Hooptober Let Satan Come Over

My Fully Weird List and Complete Set of Reviews can be found here: Slappy McGee's Hoop-Tober 10.0 List.

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Turns out... this was a true story.
Go figure.

#itcouldhappen

A very different kind of picture from Italian director Mario Bava... and I'm here to tell ya: I'm down for it.

It was damned enjoyable!

This film still incorporates Bava's wonderful use of colors and dramatic lighting, along with his prevailing sense of atmospheric tone. Very creepy and theatrical. Love that shit. And it's on full display here.

The whole style is a mesh of Bava's creative colors and the simplicity of the early sci-fi movies of the 50's. Bava gives great tribute to those drive-in classics and puts his own spin on them with his style here in the mid-60's. A prelude of the Star Trek world to come.

Plus... H.R. Giger, Dan O'Bannon and Ridley Scott are whistling innocently past the graveyard as their epic of sci-if "Alien" (and later "Prometheus") owe Bava a LOT in its design of the giant skeletons in a spaceship. Some very familiar conceptual designs there.

The title is a bit misleading... but only a bit. You have to shift your perspective a bit and then you have that "AHHHHH-HA" moment.

Great ending. Kinda perfect for this genre. Loved that.