While watching this, more than any other Bava film, I think for the first time I really understood exactly what Anna Biller has been affectionately parodying in her work all this time. I wish I could say this was a compliment, but really it just made me wish I was watching one of her ironic deconstructions instead.
Still a bit better than Bay of Blood, in my opinion. A controversial take I know, that film being the closest to an…