Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde in The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, 1974)
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti, Giuseppe Addobbati, Isa Miranda, Nino Bignamini, Marino Masé, Amadei Amodio. Screenplay: Liliana Cavani, Italo Moscati, Barbara Alberti, Amedeo Pagani. Cinematography: Alfio Contini. Art direction: Nedo Azzini, Jean Marie Simon. Film editing: Franco Arcalli. Music: Daniele Paris.
I don't mind if a movie is offensive as long as what it makes me think and feel is more significant than what offends me. But Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter, celebrated and damned for its offensive central story, the doomed love affair of a former SS officer and the concentration camp survivor whom he loved and abused, doesn't have enough substance to its characters to make its offensiveness meaningful or even credible. Despite performances of deep conviction by Dirk Bogarde as Max and Charlotte Rampling as Lucia, we still know them by their labels: ex-Nazi and masochistic victim. We can only infer why they were drawn together in the camp and why they remain drawn together years later, when he has become a night porter in a Viennese hotel that's a hotbed of decadent characters and she has married a celebrated orchestra conductor. What causes Lucia to give up this apparently successful marriage to degrade herself with this creep? And what's with this assortment of ex-Nazis who are destroying old records and eliminating witnesses to their wartime crimes -- other than, of course, a plot device that puts the lives of Max and Lucia in jeopardy. Why is there a long sequence about the ballet dancer who used to perform shirtless for the SS and now seems to be restricted to private performances for Max, who works the lights for the performances? Is it to evoke the homoerotic element of Nazism, itself a wrongheaded and offensive trope? Nothing in The Night Porter holds up to very close scrutiny. And yet it's a hypnotically watchable film that dares you to take it seriously as it unrolls, but just left me feeling jaded and unsatisfied when it was over.
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Il conformista
Italia, 1970, 108′
Dirigida por Bernardo Bertolucci
Con Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti, Jose’ Quaglio, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clémenti, Yvonne Sanson, Giuseppe Addobbati, Christian Alegny, Carlo Gaddi, Umberto Silvestri, Furio Pellerani, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Orso Maria Guerrini, Pasquale Fortunato.
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KILL, BABY… KILL! (1966) – Episode 130 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era
“I can tell you of my own fear, of what I might be risking here since I revealed to you the secret of Villa Graps.” Do tell, do tell. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Whitney Collazo, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, and Jeff Mohr – as they make the Decades of Horror’s ninth journey with the genius of Mario Bava with Kill, Baby… Kill! (1966).
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Episode 130 – Kill, Baby… Kill! (1966)
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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.
Cast and Crew:
Director: Mario Bava
Writers: Romano Migliorini (story) (screenplay), Roberto Natale (story) (screenplay); Mario Bava (screenplay); John Davis Hart (dialogue: English version) (as John Hart)
Cinematographer: Antonio Rinaldi (director of photography)
Assistant Director: Lamberto Bava
Film Editing by: Romana Fortini
Set Decoration by: Alessandro Dell’Orco (as Sandro Dell’Orco)
Costume Design by: Tina Grani
Production Management:
Production supervisor: Nando Pisani
Production manager: Luciano Catenacci (uncredited)
Unit manager: Mario Olivieri (uncredited)
Produced by: Luciano Catenacci, Nando Pisani
Selected Cast:
Giacomo Rossi Stuart as Dr. Paul Eswai
Erika Blanc as Monica Schufftan
Fabienne Dali as Ruth
Giovanna Galletti as Baroness Graps (billed as Giana Vivaldi)
Luciano Catenacci as Burgomeister Karl (billed as Max Lawrence)
Piero Lulli as Inspector Kruger
Micaela Esdra as Nadienne
Franca Dominici as Martha
Giuseppe Addobbati as Innkeeper
Mirella Panfili as Irena Hollander
Valerio Valeri as Melissa Graps
Daphne picked this Bava classic and she loves Kill, Baby… Kill! right from the opening scene in which a distraught woman impales herself on wrought iron fence spikes. From the costumes to the atmospheric village, she’s all in. Chad was never drawn in by the title or the poster, but now that he’s seen Kill, Baby… Kill!, he thinks it’s a beautiful movie. It has that Bava look and feel with almost a Hammer, gothic sensibility. Jeff’s first thought is, “Not another Italian horror movie with a creepy kid,” but now, Kill, Baby… Kill! is one of his favorite horror movies. He loves everything about it – story, cinematography, acting, set design – and it’s scary as well.
In a strange marketing ploy, Kill, Baby… Kill! was given a new title, paired with two other films, and the resulting retitled trio was billed as “Orgy of the Living Dead.” As promised on the podcast, here is a link to the “Orgy of the Living Dead” Trailer.
The Classic Era Grue Crew strongly recommends Kill, Baby… Kill! At the time of this writing, the film is available to stream on the Classic Horror Movie Channel, Wicked Horror TV, Shudder, and Kanopy, and on physical media as a Kino Classics Blu-ray.
This is the ninth Mario Bava film covered by Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror Grue Crews. You can check them out here:
BLACK SUNDAY (1960) – Episode 40 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era
BLACK SABBATH (1963) – Episode 108 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era
BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (1964) – Episode 65 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era
PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES (1965) – Episode 94 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era
A BAY OF BLOOD (1971) — Episode 78 — Decades Of Horror 1970s
BARON BLOOD (1972) – Episode 155 – Decades Of Horror 1970s
LISA AND THE DEVIL (1973) – Episode 117 – Decades Of Horror 1970s
SHOCK (1977) – Episode 133 – Decades Of Horror 1970s
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Il Gatto dagli Occhi di Giada
Also Known As (AKA)
Europe (literal English title) The Cat with the Jade Eyes
Russia Смотри, как я убиваю
Sweden Katten med stenögat
USA Watch Me When I Kill
West Germany Die Stimme des Todes
West Germany (alternative title) Die Katze mit den Jadeaugen
World-wide (English title) The Cat's Victims
Terror in the Lagoon
The Vote of Death
Data di uscita/Release Dates
Italy 6 August 1977
USA 3 September 1982
Filming Dates 5 April 1976
Direct : Antonio Bido
Music by Trans Europa Express
Trucco Giannetto De Rossi
Paese di produzione: Italia 🇮🇹
Scritto da: Vittorio Schiraldi
Sceneggiatura: Antonio Bido, Roberto Natale, Aldo Serio, Vittorio Schiraldi
technical specifications
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min)
Interpreti e personaggi
Corrado Pani: Lukas
Paola Tedesco: Mara
Franco Citti: Pasquale Ferrante
Paolo Malco: Carlo
Bianca Toccafondi: Esmeralda Messori
Fernando Cerulli: Giovanni Bozzi
Giuseppe Addobbati: Giudice
Gianfranco Bullo: Assistente di Dezzan
Jill Pratt: Sig.ra Dezzan
Inna Alexeievna: Vecchietta
Cristina Piras: Sig.ra Ferrante
Roberto Antonelli: Michele
Gaetano Rampin: Dott. Peretti
Giuseppe Pennese: Marco
Giovanni Vannini: Dezzan
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