As Quentin Tarantino prepares to shoot what may be his last feature film, The Movie Critic, we delve into the filmmaker’s journey. What films made Tarantino the director he is today? The three faces of fear stands very far at the top of his favorite movie list.
Tarantino is never at a loss for a detour into film history. Whether it’s an interview on the red carpet, an appearance on a late-night show or in the course of publishing your own book: Tarantino shares his love for cinema, where he can. There are always plenty of recommendations for film fans.
Amazon Prime Horror Highlight: Quentin Tarantino on The Three Faces of Fear
A while ago, the director raved to SiriusXM about Mario Bava’s horror film The Three Faces of Fear, which was released in cinemas in 1964 and is internationally known as Black Sabbath. Tarantino discovered the film during a late-night TV broadcast. Since then he is from the operatic staging Charmed.
You can watch the trailer for The Three Faces of Fear here:
The Three Faces of Fear – Trailer (German)
Tarantino even mentions Bava in the same breath as another legendary director: Sergio Leone, who directed the spaghetti western, Play Me the Song of Death.
Sergio Leone and Mario Bava got me thinking about shots and composition. I recognized a cinematic style, a signature and quality that went beyond the question of whether the film is good or bad. Even when I saw a Bava film that I didn’t like, I still recognized the same operatic quality.
Particularly exciting: The Three Faces of Fear is an episodic film that consists of three horror stories composed. First a young woman is terrorized by a telephone, later a vampire speaks up and then we dive into the realm of the dead during a séance.
Tarantino’s films often have one too episodic character. This approach can already be seen in his early works Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. It is most evident in Death Proof – Deathproof and Inglourious Basterds, which can be divided very clearly into two and five large chapters, respectively.
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