Alfred Hitchcock vs Mario Bava...

[joelc]

Who is the forefather of all the modern (70's up till today) horror movie.

I know you gonna tell me that belong in the Worst/best/VS forum. But I'll tell you why it's not. It's an inquerie of the american vision on the history of horror movies as a whole. It goes way beyond a "Who's the best?", or who owned the genre. It ask where's the vision for comtemporary intelligent(if I may call it this way) horror cinema come from.

[Jason13thh]

Mario Bava is on my top three Best Director - list.
Hitchcock is a great director and it is a shame he has never been rewarded for his work ( I mean Oscars )
However Hitchcock is not a horror director ( apart Psycho, Frenzy, The Birds )
Very difficult to choose but I think that technicaly Bava was slightly superior.
Joel est - ce que tu parles français ?
Ce serait bien d'avoir un francophone sur le forum, en plus de moi je veux dire.

[joelc]

Oui, je suis francophone.

Ça fait longtemps que je post ici. Il y a 6-7 mois, j'avais le nick Quebec-Joel mais j'ai cessé de "poster"... et il doit y avoir d'autres francophones ici, c'est un site montréalais après tout. Joblo et Arrow sont de Montréal. Ils parlent peut-être français eux-mêmes.


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Well, still. My question wasn't one of either or not Hitchcock was a horror director. I know he was more related to a genre we call the "thriller". I'm talking about the impact he had on everything that was done in horror.

But yes, I agree, Mario Bava is the ultimate reference in post-70's horror. In modern and post-modern horror, I would call him the forefather of the genre over Hitchcock... and I saw most of Hitchcock works, even some from the silent era like The Ring.

[joelc]

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