Danger: Diabolik (1968)
Fey super-thief Diabolik runs around stealing jewels, gold, murdering innocent people, and being a nuisance to the government of a generic European country. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Mario Bava
Written By: Mario Bava, Arduino Maiuri, Adriano Baracco, Angela Giussani
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi, Terry-Thomas, John Phillip Law, Claudio Gora, Marisa Mell, Carlo Croccolo, Renzo Palmer, Caterina Boratto, Annie Gorassini, Lucia Modugno, Mario Donen
AKA: Diabolik
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Danger: Diabolik belongs to 19 collections
1. Psychotronic Film and Video Guides (collaborative: moderated by Gregzilla - 40 stars)
2. Empire's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time (public: Ross - 36 stars)
3. Mst3k (collaborative: moderated by ralexwr - 29 stars)
4. Edgar Wright 1000 Favorite Movies (Aug 2016) (collaborative: moderated by Aron Ericson - 17 stars)
5. Based On Comic (collaborative: moderated by mpowell - 16 stars)
6. Heist (collaborative: moderated by td888 - 16 stars)
7. Ennio Morricone (composer) (collaborative: moderated by djross - 8 stars)
8. 500 essential cult films (not seen) (public: cayh - 5 stars)
9. Capsules, guest reviews, list candidates... (366weirdmovies) (collaborative: moderated by sesito71 - 4 stars)
10. Female Shower Scene (collaborative - 2 stars)
11. Mods & Rockers Movies (collaborative: moderated by Hailey - 2 stars)
12. Crime (collaborative: moderated by ForrestQ)
13. Soundtrack featuring Edda Dell'Orso, Ennio Morricone's muse (collaborative: moderated by mattburgess)
14. Cinema Sewer (collaborative: moderated by mattburgess)
15. Films to get (public: Scelsi)
16. Rewatch & Random (public: ForrestQ)
17. Edgar 256 (public: caffe)
18. New Beverly Cinema (public: xmoffx)
19. Backlog 1968 (public: caffe)
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BeeDub | 75 29th |
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A couple of sociopaths rob and kill a bunch of innocent people. Fun?
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mattburgess | 96 97th |
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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.
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ribcage | 66 48th |
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Pure madness and nonsense. Its like live action animation with how ridiculous it is. You can absolutely tell the decade it was made in. Sex on a giant rotating bed while buried under cash -- Diabolik knows how to live it up
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FrederikA | 30 8th |
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I honestly don't get what all the fuzz is about...
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Ronin167 | 60 46th |
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Hilariously ridiculous.
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gogokain | 20 32nd |
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Reverse raccoon man! Strangely entertaining, but ultimately awful.
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Barthalen | 74 66th |
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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.
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miss jesus | 70 67th |
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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.
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hehejaja | 90 91st |
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Ah, delicious garbage!
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fenixdown | 52 11th |
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Poorly dubbed movie about a dashing thief.
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| 2 | nanaimo | 50 21st |
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Great MST3K.
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redacted | 72 52nd |
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An Italian, camp sister movie to the Batman tv series of the same era. Boiled down, Diabolik is the tale of a breezy Italian model turned super criminal, breaking his hedonistic lifestyle to periodically commit grand larceny. His crimes sustain his exotic sub-sea level fuck-cave and help adorn his blonde lover with the worlds rarest trinkets. In doing so he systematically bankrupts the nation of Italy, preceding Fight Club's finale by some years (in an ironic, gloriously cheap fashion)
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kafka1325 | 35 15th |
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Even Enio's music is bad....
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joseywales | 71 60th |
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Hilariously ridiculous pretty much sums it up.
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nilkynarfy | 70 61st |
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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.
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cinema_hell | 90 86th |
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F*ck James Bond. Long live Diabolik!
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Dean Franz | 37 35th |
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Very entertaining supervillain shlock classic. Drags in spots but overall it fits neatly in the so-bad-its-good category.
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INDYATMN | 76 45th |
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1st, Mell is 1 of the most stunning women I've ever seen. 2nd, the first heist does not impress although this may be b/c the switch-cars-in-tunnel idea is old now. 3rd, Bava takes 7 whole minutes to show us D & his girl go back home & it promises to be excruciating, but luckily things pick up, the heists have some fun twists (although emeralds can't be bullets & that gold wasn't budging) & the ending's a hoot. It's Batman '66 for hipster types who think the Feds are, like, so uncool, ya know?
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Yiannos | 65 59th |
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Early comic book film has style to spare, although its deliberate two dimensional artificiality lacks the obvious artistry of Dick Tracy and later comic books that had larger budgets and access to superior technology. As usual, Bava makes the most of limited means, and it's really a time capsule experience that is refreshingly lightweight and colorful compared to today's equivalents that are often drab and self serious. Morricone's score is a kitschy delight that energises this oddly paced romp.
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| 1 | Pickle_Man | 75 43rd |
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Completely cartoonish gentleman thief mystery that feels a lot like the goofier James Bond movies or maybe like the Adam West Batman series. Basically Austin Powers if it was actually made in the 60s.
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| Average Percentile 50.87% from 330 Ratings |  |