A BAY OF BLOOD (10:00pm)
Dir. Mario Bava, Italy, 1971, R, 84min, DCP
One of the most influential horror films of all time, Mario Bava's A BAY OF BLOOD is the spurting artery from which all future slasher films would flow. When crippled Countess Federica is murdered at her isolated mansion, a gruesome battle ensues to secure the rights to her valuable property around the bay. Everyone, from illegitimate children to shady real estate agents, stakes a claim—only to be killed in increasingly bizarre ways, from simple shootings to impalement by fishing spear. The makeup effects are by Carlo Rambaldi, who would later earn Oscars for his work in ALIEN and E.T. Initially scorned because of its graphic violence, A BAY OF BLOOD eventually became a trendsetter, the model slasher film that FRIDAY THE 13th would emulate nearly a decade later.
KILL, BABY…KILL! (11:45pm)
Dir. Mario Bava, Italy, 1966, PG, 83min, DCP
In the beginning of the 20th century, Dr. Eswai is called by Inspector Kruger to a small village to perform an autopsy on a woman who has died under suspicious circumstances. Despite help from Ruth, the village witch, Kruger is killed—and it’s revealed that the dead woman, as well as other villagers, have been killed by the ghost of Melissa, a young girl who, fed by the hatred of her grieving mother Baroness Graps, exacts her revenge on them. Dr. Eswai, along with Monica, a local nurse, are lured into a fateful confrontation at the Villa Graps...