Danger: Diabolik
Danger: Diabolik is a 1968 film from Italy and France, directed by Mario Bava, running 96 minutes. reelscum files it under eurospy.
- Year
- 1968 · 1960s films
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Director
- Mario Bava
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (31/100)
- Also known as
- Danger: Diabolik · Goldstrike!
Defined in the glossary: Eurospy
Bava doing pop art on pocket change. Genuinely one of the best-designed films ever.
Mario Bava takes a fraction of a real budget and makes it look like the richest pop-art film of the decade. A master thief and his lover rob the establishment blind from an underground lair, and Bava builds the whole world out of clever angles, coloured light and matte paintings because he could not afford anything else.
John Phillip Law barely speaks and does not need to. The film is about design, motion and Ennio Morricone's grooving score, and it is one of the best-looking things on this entire site.
The Beastie Boys rebuilt a whole video out of it. You will see why.
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The cycle in depth
- The giallo, 1963 to 1976
A line of yellow paperbacks, a killer in black gloves, and Mario Bava building the American slasher a decade before Hollywood cashed the cheque.
On these lists
- Better than their reputation
Prosecuted, banned, dismissed or filed on the wrong shelf. All of them are good.
Filed alongside
OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
The eurospy archetype, from a French agent who beat James Bond into print by four years.
Operation Kid Brother
They cast Sean Connery's actual brother. That is the entire idea.
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
Mid-tier Eurospy with an unusually good title and Mike Connors.