Joe Dante and Tim Burton walk into a mausoleum to worship the god of Italian horror.
Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the italian director Mario Bava
Production
Rare Bava family footage and never-seen behind-the-scenes stills.
Direction
Dante's genuine fanboy energy keeps academic material dangerously alive.
Director
Gabriele Acerbo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dante programmed Bava retrospectives before directing Gremlins, smuggling that baroque lighting into Amblin blockbusters.
The documentary's 2004 release timing resurrected Bava's reputation just before Arrow Video's restoration avalanche made him household-name adjacent.
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