Crime fantasy. Visually stimulating, great music and a lot of fun.

Mst3k score: 6/10

I honestly don't get what all the fuzz is about...

Hope there's a Diabolik: Origins.

It's stylish, pretty, and really really fun. The special effects and obvious green screen, though it may annoy some, actually help the movie look comic-esque. The jump cuts that may make the viewer ponder how Diabolik did something or how something happened may also annoy some viewers but it really helps the film look like a comic where things just happen out of nowhere. Bottom line: zaniest film I've seen.

Hilariously ridiculous pretty much sums it up.

Deliciously cheesy, and even stylish at times. Diabolik is a total badass; a cross between Batman, a young Hugh Hefner and a Bond villain, who blows up federal buildings without breaking a sweat and risks his life just to get his hot girlfriend some jewelery. Don't expect anything high-brow and you'll probably have a good time, despite the wildly uneven pacing and cheap effects.

66.375

+ highly recommended

Ennio's whack score has etched in my mind the female vox: "deep, deep down.......deeeeeep down....deep deep down..." and the Tommy Tedesco-like surf guitar noodings propel this confection along, and a fun ride it was. JPL's recurring laugh, though, coulda used some Drano.

Does Danger: Diabolik ever become more than a somewhat artsy novelty piece? With admirable art direction and even sophistication, Mario Bava helms a film of pulpy appeal but little character examination and only the most banal affection of meaning. Indeed, those echoes of Bond and To Catch a Thief that abound are rarely flattering. Diabolik titillates but it never wows.

Great MST3K.

So much fun. "Muhahahahahahaha!"

Hilariously ridiculous.

Kinda fun & unusual.

brilliant

Well, it's masturbatory and mean-spirited, but it's still fun to watch thanks to a myriad of stylistic touches and a swanky as all hell score. The MST3K episode mocking it is also good.

are you kidding?

Ah, delicious garbage!

Reverse raccoon man! Strangely entertaining, but ultimately awful.

God, this movie makes me insanely happy, its like one big hit of "exhilaration gas"! Diabolik and Eva are my fucking heroes. Bava captures the joyous, dizzying ridiculousness of comic books and pulp novels better than any bloated Hollywood blockbuster - his best by far. Ennio Morricone's score is, as usual, glorious 60s kitsch genius that I can't stop listening to.

Dino De Laurentiis produced this movie based on a popular Euro-comic strip. There are lots of imaginative sets and colorful lighting, and a great score by Ennio Morricone. Not a box office hit, this should have given Bava's career the shot in the arm it always deserved and is certainly one of the all-time great pop-culture time capsules of the 1960s, with gimmicks and gadgets galore.

What it lacks in characterization it makes up for with style. The plot is wonderfully over-the-top, but the pacing lags. I like it in the way that I liked the ghost episode of Mission Impossible, or the vampire episode of Starsky & Hutch, which is to say that I'm well aware it isn't actually very good, it just has some charming qualities that disappeared from film decades ago.

F*ck James Bond. Long live Diabolik!

Very entertaining supervillain shlock classic. Drags in spots but overall it fits neatly in the so-bad-its-good category.