Macabre

The best part is the psychopathic 12-year old daughter who successfully murders her brother, gaslights an adult man, and then drives her mother insane. All in a day's work! (Why she did it we have no idea, as neither the screenwriter nor Bava seems to care.)As others have said here, if you like insane, whacked-out 70s Italian movies, this is what you're looking for--just be ready to trudge through the middle part, which drags... the movie is essentially plotless, because it never tells us why anyone is doing anything. So in the middle part you're essentially just watching people go about their lives. Hitchcock once said drama is life with the boring bits cut out, but Bava never got the memo... but hang in there, because the ending is just as bonkers as you were hoping.Fwiw, it's an Italian film, so there are no people of color, and no LGBTQ characters. Unless you count necrophilia as queer.But, like I said, it's also driven by a "creepy kid," which is the best argument I know for not having children. So with that and the necrophilia, it's not exactly heteronormative. ;)

Great Movie for your Horror collection. Best ending ever!

A friend's mom worked at a psychiatric hospital and wore a T-shirt that said, "Insanity is Inherited! You Get It From Your Kids!" After watching Lamberto Bava`s "Macabre," I believe that T-shirt was right. Jane is insane. Her crazy daughter, Lucy, made her that way. While Jane is away from home (in bed with her lover, Fred) Lucy becomes very angry. She drowns her toddler brother, Michael, in the bathtub. While rushing home, Fred and Jane are in an accident. Fred is killed and Jane is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital, blaming herself for Fred and Michael's deaths. Jane is eventually released and moves back into the love nest she shared with Fred. Lucy begins secretly tormenting her mother. Meanwhile, the blind landlord begins investigating the strange occurrences in Jane's bedroom. Though Fred is dead, Robert hears her passionately cry out Fred's name during nocturnal bouts of ecstasy. "Macabre" means "ghoulish" and this movie certainly is. It's one of the most perverse and bizarre I've ever seen. Not too surprising since Lamberto Bava is the son of the late Mario Bava who was known as the Italian Master of the Macabre. Unfortunately, "Macabre" is not on the same level as the films of Mario Bava's career. Also, it is too slow moving for modern viewers though it is sometimes suspenseful, especially towards the end. The ending was a real shocker, but very unrealistic and silly. Speaking of shock, the film "Shock" was Mario Bava's last feature film; it was co-directed by his son, Lamberto. Both "Shock" and "Macabre" bare many striking similarities. Both involve women recently released from the mental institute. Gradually, they begin losing touch with reality and slide back into their original state of insanity. New Orleans scenery and a jazzy score are nice. Stanko Molnar's performance as the blind Robert is excellent, the best part of the movie. I fear for his safety when he discovers Jane's horrid secret. Unfortunately, none of this is enough to warrant purchasing the film unless you are a diehard Lamberto Bava fan or, if you're like me, you can buy it a dirt cheap price on Amazon.com. If you are really curious about Lamberto Bava's directorial debut, I suggest renting it on a dark, lonely night.

It's all to easy to understand why Lamberto Bava's solo directorial debut Macabre failed to find much of an audience back in 1980: it feels more like a pitch than a fully fleshed out story, and one that's overly reliant on a shock ending that's pretty obvious. At times it feels like two separate underdeveloped films almost in competition with each other. Unfortunately the most interesting, a bad seed plot with the anti-heroine's homicidal daughter taking revenge on her for her infidelity by killing her young brother and trying to drive mommy back into the asylum, gets the least screen time in favor of mom not letting a little thing like decapitation stand between her and her dead lover. Much of it feels padded out and repetitive and unfortunately leading lady Bernice Stegers, admittedly hampered by a presumably dubbed deep fried Sowthan aksunt, simply cannot carry the film. Too well made to be unintentionally funny (at least until the absurd final shot), too boring to hold the attention and too predictable to offer any suspense, it's not difficult to see why this was such a flop that Bava didn't direct another film for three years.Lamberto Bava's second film, A Blade in the Dark, is a slightly above average late giallo despite some incredibly some heavy-handed clues (a female director who dresses in men's suits, an actress appearing in a play about Vita Sackville-West, a flamboyantly gay assistant and an opening scene where two children taunt another for being a female - gee, do you think they're trying to tell us something about the killer?). Somewhat surprisingly originally intended for television but turned down for excessive violence, it mostly makes a virtue of its low budget though isn't able to make much of its key location, a large but rather characterless and unmenacing villa that conveniently belonged to the film's producer. Still, any film that has a director being killed by her own film has something going for it.

"Macabre" is the perfect title for Lamberto Bava's debut gonzo horror treat. "Lurid" would have also worked, or "Grotesque." I dare say there is no other movie like it. A lot of the film is played seriously, almost like an art-film drama, but the rest is completely 'over the top, no, this can't be happening' insanity. Imagine if William Castle's House on Haunted Hill is a '5' on the campy, grotesque horror scale, then Macabre is cranked to '11.' The two female leads, one a child actress, play their madness to the hilt in Joan Crawford fashion. The Grand (Guignol) Finale is simply off the charts nutso, and is worth the wait. A very perverted, twisted movie indeed of the "so bad it's great" variety. A must-see for giallo and grindhouse fans!

Good product. Great quality. Recommended if you need to find a cheap copy of frozen terror(aka macabre)

Qualität der Blu Ray ist sehr gut, nur der Film ist sowas von langweilig und somit nur Fans von Lamberto Bava zu empfehlen. Wer es blutiger und actionreicher mag finger weg.

I have been looking for this for such a long time. I'm glad that I I ally got it. Great fast service. Thanks so much.

Ware ausgezeichnet,sehr gute Qualität.Preis für diesen Artikel ist i.OWare kam etwas später als angegeben.Alles in Allem ."GUT" Werd weitere Artikel mir dämnächst reservieren.

Rarissimo horror d’autore, anche in lingua italiana. Consiglio acquisto del film, arrivato ben imballato e nei tempi stabiliti!