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Synopsis

Basically, 'Herakles' is an omnium-gatherum of film clips depicting images of machismo. Some of those images are explicitly macho: we see various body-builders flexing their biceps and triceps. Other images seen here are not macho in the literal sense, but are indirectly related to testosterone or cojones on some level: we see military aircraft making bombing raids, and footage of car crashes.

Year1962
CountryGermany
Films Herakles Inspired
My favorite Bava is probably Hercules in the Haunted World [Ercole al centro della Terra]. It’s an amazing movie that really shows what Bava was doing with lighting. He was doing things with light that you would never see anywhere else. He was like an abstract painter with a camera. When I started shooting my movies, I felt he liberated me because he didn’t care about logic.
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