Can anyone recommend to me any other films by any other directors that look like this film with its strong and vibrant use of light, shadow and colour spectrum. At present I can only think of 'Deep Red' (Argento), 'Inferno' (Argento), 'Black Sabbath' (Bava) and 'Kill Baby Kill' (Bava) that deploy such a strong use of visual effects.
shareCheck out Arne Mattsson. Especially Mannekäng i rött (1958) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051906/reference
I wouldn't like to accuse Bava from stealing from Mattsson, but the colors came first with Mattsson (actually his cinematographer Hilding Bladh) And the fashion model thing came from there. Mattsson wasn't exactly unknown at the time, being world famous to include nudity in Hon dansade en sommar (1951) "One Summer of Happiness".
Otherwise try Alejandro Jodorowsky. The Holy Mountain & Santa Sangre
Antiparanoia is the eerie feeling that nothing is connected to anything else
Check out Arne Mattsson. Especially Mannekäng i rött (1958) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051906/reference
I wouldn't like to accuse Bava from stealing from Mattsson, but the colors came first with Mattsson (actually his cinematographer Hilding Bladh) And the fashion model thing came from there. Mattsson wasn't exactly unknown at the time, being world famous to include nudity in Hon dansade en sommar (1951) "One Summer of Happiness".
Otherwise try Alejandro Jodorowsky. The Holy Mountain & Santa Sangre
Antiparanoia is the eerie feeling that nothing is connected to anything else
Try 'Amer' and 'strange colour of your body's tears'
Also DePalma. Dressed to Kill and Blow Out often have that look and the same sense of suspense.
Early Michael Mann, too, particularly Manhunter.
You might also like Hausu from Japan, although played for laughs it's bursting with imagination.
Wender's The American Friend and Paris Texas are very different genre wise but the use of colour is astonishing.
Amer and Strange Color of Your Body's Tears are really stunning movies. I hope to see more flicks from the couple that directed these two.
sharePeeping Tom (1960) has similar vibrant colours, though not always so bright, also the story is somewhat similar.
Pedro Almodóvar is also known for his use of bright colours.
Movie girl: Just thought of another good Mario Bava film from the early 70's, Hatchet for a Honeymoon with Stephen Forsythe. There are mysterious murders of fashion models who are about to become brides. Stephen is a professional photographer hired by the modeling agency. The story centers around his psychological torment with his past life...
I think it was B&W but the clever suspenseful style was in Psychomania, another early 60's slasher film. (Not the same as the later Psychomania motorcyle film of early 70's).
I'm reminded of "Suspiria" (1977).
(W)hat are we without our dreams?
Making sure our fantasies
Do not overpower our realities. ~ RC
Definitely made me think of Peeping Tom right off the bat.I think the director or cinematographer had to be inspired by it, and not just the look, but the implied voyeurism of the audience in watching these girls getting tortured is also similar. The way each is murdered gets more and more gruesome.
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