THE COLD hand of heritage reaches out to touch Monika (Erika Blanc) in the form of a child’s ghost (Valerio Valeri) in OPERAZIONE PAURA.
HREE YEARS had now passed since Mario Bava last directed a traditional horror film, the genre in which he felt most comfortable and creative.
La frusta e il corpo had been just ambiguous enough to elude such a description—the ghost of Kurt Menliff was finally revealed to be a guilty figment of his lover/ murderer’s imagination, rendering the story more psy- chological than supernatural—and Sei donne per l’assassino was anything but traditional as it laid the ground rules for what the horror genre would become in the decades ahead.
