Fellini and Mario Bava and great horror
With his short segment in this film, Fellini proved that he could roll with the finest of horror directors. I just saw "Toby Dammit" again and I enjoy it more now than ever. I realize that Bava's "Kill Baby Kill" came first and as such, Fellini might have owed him some credit ( or did it come first, release dates are one thing...??). But Fellini took it somewhere else and it is brilliant. I love a pure horror movie as much as anyone- complete with the bad acting, bad plot lines, and overall badness- but sometimes I love an artful, complete horror too. This one is just extraordinary. Was he deliberately referencing Bava? Or was that devil's daughter thing just in the air at the time...
Can anyone point me to a good discussion of these two films as they relate to each other? Thanks in advance.