DORA BALDINI (Daria Nicolodi) is visited by the incubus of her late husband (Nicola Salerno)— or perhaps a manifestation of her own murderous guilt—in SCHOCK.
FTER MARIO BAVA turned down Dino De Laurentiis’ invitation to supervise the spe- cial effects unit of King Kong, and especially
after Baby Kong (a shabby consolation prize at best) fell apart in its wake, the aging director embarked on another period of disappointment and depression. More than two years had passed since he last
directed, and that film was left unfinished; the film he completed before that, his pride and joy, was un- wanted by the marketplace and had to be reconfigured into something he considered an abomination. As Bava found himself increasingly forgotten in his own country, his work began to attract stirrings of stronger interest in the United States.
