Mario Bava was the horror film director responsible for several of the most memorable vampire films of the 1960s. He was born on July 31, 1914, in San Remo, Italy. He worked as a cameraman for two decades before he became a director. The disruption of the industry through the 1940s limited the number of features he worked on; but beginning in 1950, he worked on one or more films almost every year. Mario Bava made his name in the Italian film industry as a cinematographer on more than 70 films before he was finally assigned to finish directing I VAMPIRI for Ricardo Freda in 1956.
On the strength of this work, he was backed to direct a project on his own: BLACK SUNDAY (1960), which some still consider to be his masterpiece. For the last two decades of his life he continued a prolific directorial career, usually photographing his own films, and making a glorious transition from black and white to the vibrant color for which he became known and imitated. On the subject of imitation, it is worth noting that Bava—with his film BAY OF BLOOD (1971) featuring 13 murders in 90 minutes—was the progenitor of the "body count" horror movie. Because his films generally explore dark, adult psycho-sexual themes, they were on several occasions brutally censored and re-edited for release to English speaking audiences.
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