Mario Bava’s gutsiest film is the one he never finished. RABID DOGS, aka, KIDNAPPED, found Il Maestro abandoning his trinity of technically perfect direction, sickly mood lighting, and gothic atmospheric storylines for angry realism, pulpy violence and nihilism. The result is a grim but accessible meditation on desperation and survival.

When rapper Snoop Dogg sang about seeing demons in his 1993 song “Murder Was the Case” he might have been paying homage to the 1986 Italian classic, DEMONI.

The 1988 Italian made-for-TV flick DEMONS 3: THE OGRE, offers surprisingly jittery, edge-of-your-seat suspense for about 80 minutes — then it falls apart faster than the plot of the latest SAW movie.