The Whip and the Body

The first film from Mario Bava that he has no writing credit on, The Whip and the Body is the best script he’s made a movie from since he started. The credited writers (Ernesto Gastaldi, Ugo Guerra, and Luciano Martino) all used pseudonyms on the film itself, the same as Bava who is credited as John M. Old. I suspect this was done to help sell the film to English audiences since this is a rather brazen attempt to mimic Hammer Horror and even Roger Corman’s Poe cycle. However, no matter how d...

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Published on October 07, 2025 04:47
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