Shock

Shock (1977)

Schock

A new look at the face of evil.

A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.

Date of release
1977-08-12
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (142)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Horror
Director
Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava
Collection
Beyond the Door Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $999.9K
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Sitges Film Festival Best Screenplay award

Shock is a 1977 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Mario Bava and starring Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, and David Colin, Jr. Its plot focuses on a woman who moves into the home she shared with her deceased former husband, where she finds herself tormented by supernatural occurrences. It was Bava's last theatrical feature before he died of a heart attack in 1980.

Production

Following a series of failed ventures or incomplete works such as Rabid Dogs and Baby Kong, Mario Bava's son Lamberto Bava continued to push his father into making new film work, which led to the creation of Shock. The original script for Shock was written by Dardano Sacchetti and Francesco Barbieri in the early 1970s following their work on A Bay of Blood.

The film went into production in 1977 and was shot over a period of five weeks. Mario let Lamberto direct some scenes in the film based on Mario's storyboards. Lamberto's official credit for directing is "Collaboration to the direction".

The musical score in the film was composed by the group Libra, with Carlo Pennisi on guitar, Alessandro Centofanti on keyboards, Dino Cappa on bass, and Walter Martino on drums. It was the group's last recording before breaking up later that year.

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