Shaking up this common slasher trope, Bava’s killer dehumanises their victims by envisioning them as various beasts. What makes Delirium so bizarre is the murderous set-pieces Bava depicts in the point-of-view of the killer’s gaze. The murders subsequently cause a macabre increase in the magazine’s sales as the public flock to see exposed photos of the murdered victims. Delirium follows the head of a pornographic magazine, Gloria, as she is stalked by a mysterious killer who seems to be murdering a collection of her friends and models. The son of classic Italian director of gorgeously stylish horror, Mario Bava, Lamberto significantly departed from his father’s style of vintage colour palettes and set-designs, focussing his main attention on depicting as atrocious and vile murders and monsters imaginable. Most known for his 1985 cult-classic Demons, Lamberto Bava made a catalogue of devilishly deviant horror films throughout the 1980’s, including his 1987 feature Delirium.
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