Kill, Baby... Kill!
Kill, Baby... Kill! is a 1966 film from Italy, directed by Mario Bava, running 85 minutes. reelscum files it under euro-gothic.
- Year
- 1966 · 1960s films
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Director
- Mario Bava
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (39/100)
- Also known as
- Curse of the Dead · Don't Walk in the Park · Operation Fear · Kill Baby Kill · Curse of the Living Dead · Kill, Baby... Kill! ...Or Be Cursed by the Living Dead
Defined in the glossary: Euro-gothic
A ghost child with a white ball. Fellini and Scorsese both stole from it.
A ghost story built around one indelible image: a small blonde girl with a white ball whose appearance means a death is coming. In a remote Carpathian village, a doctor investigates a series of impossible deaths, and Bava turns almost no budget into pure dread.
Fellini and Scorsese both borrowed from it, and the spiral-staircase sequence that folds back on itself is one of the most dreamlike passages in horror. The ghost child predates every creepy-kid film that followed.
Bava conjuring genuine nightmare out of fog, colour and a bouncing ball.
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The cycle in depth
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