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“Marco!” How many of you responded with, “Polo?” Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they have a nice visit with Mario Bava and Daria Nicolodi in Shock (1977), where nobody says, “Polo.”
Decades of Horror 1970s
Episode 133 – Shock (1977)
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A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman’s former husband, who possesses their young son.
IMDb
- Directors: Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava (uncredited)
- Writers: Lamberto Bava, Gianfranco Barberi (as Francesco Barbieri), Alessandro Parenzo, Dardano Sacchetti
- Selected Cast:
- Daria Nicolodi as Dora Baldini
- John Steiner as Bruno Baldini
- David Colin Jr. as Marco
- Ivan Rassimov as Dr. Aldo Spidini
- Nicola Salerno as Carlo (uncredited)
This one is Bill’s pick and even though he is a super Bava-fan, it slipped by him for a while due to the title change from Shock to Beyond the Door II. When he eventually viewed it, he realized it was missing Bava’s bold use of colors but still contained impressive small touches that identified the film as his, even with a minuscule budget and a small cast. Chad enjoyed Shock, especially the Bava moments, but laments it being his last film, wishing the director had gone out on a higher note. For Jeff, this is definitely Daria Nicolodi’s film and the last 15-20 minutes of bizarreness made it all worthwhile. Doc, while pointing out its unevenness, goes on to say Shock is definitely for Bava fans and fans of drive-in movies with the film playing like the third movie on a drive-in bill.
You Bava completists and 70s drive-in movie fans out there need to check out Shock. At the time of this writing, the film is available for streaming from Shudder and Amazon Prime.
Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode in their very flexible schedule will be Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974), chosen by Chad! Be sure to join us for some Kaiju fun.
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