Mario Bava. The man made Black Sabbath (yes, the band is named after the movie), Twitch of the Death Nerve (arguably the original slasher movie) and Kill, Baby, Kill (killer babies need the most attention). Then he made Danger: Diabolik. If you read anything from the fans of the movie you'll see they're outraged (OUTRAGED!) that this movie was an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. HOW DARE THEY! In realty the movie is ridiculous. Ridiculously cool but also the traditional ridiculous. Shockingly, the copy I saw didn't include the line, "Is that stud coming?" which I could only find at the end of this collection:
"You gonna be da worm face!" always makes me laugh. Dino De Laurentiis also produced Barbarella the same year as Danger: Diabolik. This guy pioneered camp! That's why I'm using all these exclamation points. It's fabulous! Diabolik is also one of my favorite things. Out-of-print!
De Laurentiis produced a lot of Stephen King movies: Dead Zone, Firestarter, Silver Bullet, Cat's Eye and Maximum Overdrive. MO is about machines coming to life and being really unhappy about it. Except the waffle iron. He's cool.
Here's what happened last week, reviewed by Siskel and Ebert:
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