An Evening in Honor of My Kid Sister: Danger: Diabolik

DANGER: DIABOLIK (1968): After the international success of Bond and Batman in the mid-1960s, the rest of the world decided to join in the fun. Mario Bava (Planet of Terror, Black Sabbath) entered the fray by adapting the Italian comic book mainstay Diabolik to the screen. Diabolik is a masked supercriminal who uses his brains, gadgetry and vast financial resources to undermine an unnamed European country. This one’s shot and edited in a way that evokes comics themselves, rather unlike more “static” period adaptations like Barbarella.

to be preceded by

“Body Movin’” (1998), The Beastie Boys video which is (rather self-conciously) based on Diabolik