“You only get peace when
you can impose it.” Lamberto Bava, son of the iconic Italian filmmaker
Mario Bava, never quite achieved the creative heights of his father's catalogue
of cinematic treats (Mario kick started the entire giallo movement with The Girl Who Knew Too Much in 1963), but he has nonetheless carved out a
recognised and beloved niche in Italian genre cinema. Macabre, Body
Puzzle, A Blade in the Dark, Delirium, and particularly Demons, will
all be familiar to aficionados of European exploitation movies, but whereas Demons
dispensed with characterisation and any shred of plot logic in favour of
scatter gun gore, Lamberto's 1984 action thriller Blastfighter crafts a
character-rich story which dispenses frequent action while still keeping the
viewer emotionally invested...
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