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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

I rather love the ending of Bay of Blood, though it's been over a decade since I last saw it. If I could poorly sum it up in two sentences, it would be "Humanity sucks, but the kids are alright. And they'll freaking shoot you lololol." It's probably the purest expression of Bava's odd mixture of mirth, mischief and misanthropy, with all the evils of the film's story ultimately being vanquished by hearts so innocent that they don't realize they've killed their own parents. And since the movie is over, they never will.

He did another film called Five Dolls For An August Moon shortly before, and it has a bit of this mirthful misanthropy as well, though it doesn't quite work as well because Bava readily admitted he hated the script and shot the film in such a fashion that basically trolled its very existence - whereas there is none of this antagonism towards Bay of Blood. I still like it somewhat.

That makes sense, and yeah that was ultimately the explanation for the ending I settled on more or less. Its just so abrupt and the way the music kicks in that the absurdity made my brain do a backflip

i think Ill go back to it after a few months. Im interested in how knowing about the second half will make me think of it as it plays out before that point