John Carpenter emerged from the same California milieu in the 1970s as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. He has worked in the same Hollywood as they have, in the same genres, but in many ways he is the anti-Spielberg and the anti-Lucas. They Live is the most extreme example of this. It criticizes not only spectacular entertainment but commercial image-making in general. That it does this in a cheap, blunt sci-fi flick starring a professional wrestler is nothing to sneeze at. Here Carpenter reveals himself as an enemy of what one of this film’s villains calls “our ongoing quest for multi-dimensional expansion.”

Combustible Celluloid Review - A Bay of Blood (1971), written by Mario Bava, Filippo Ottoni, Giuseppe Zaccariello, based on a story by Franco Barberi, Dardano Sacchetti, directed by Mario Bava, and with Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Claudio Camaso, Anna Maria Rosati, Chris Avram, Leopoldo Trieste, Laura Betti, Brigitte Skay, Isa Miranda, Paola Montenero, Guido Boccaccini, Roberto Bonanni, Giovanni Nuvoletti

The Italian horror maestro’s grisly and deeply cynical 1971 film A Bay of Blood remains one of his most shocking works.

A bayside location soon becomes the location of an ever-decreasing circle of slaughter as Mario Bava continues to develop the early 'stalk 'n' slash' genre.