That was an excellent one.

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

In truth, any opportunity to see the film on the big screen is welcome.

3 Stars for Edwige Fenech. 0 for the rest of the film. Somehow, someway Mario Bava found a cult following who will dismiss his poor choice of story/scripts/plot/dialogue/human communication and emotion, and praise his colors/sets/cinematography and maybe music, and his dark sense of humor. Bava lovers say style over substance. Disregard story, it's all about how cool it looks. So, the people who want stories are supposed to regard Bava as some kind of an abstract painter? I'm thinking more like some fool who throws a bucket of paint on a canvas and call it art? Let's face it, be honest, we're all adults here, or try to be, Bava sucks. And so does this guy Argento. Suspiria is one of the most amateur pieces of garbage I've ever seen, everything from the candy color lights to poor acting, scenes, sets, dialogue, story, music, cinematography, etc. I recently watched his Flies & Plumage movies. Garbage. It's a cult propaganda. Maybe I'm wrong that cult movies aren't just people who love certain movies, maybe the Argento cult really belong to some crazy German Witches who run a ballerina school for international students. Fresh Meat!Getting back to Bava. Planet of Vampires, poor cartoon garbage. Bay of Blood, poor story some decent scenes. Black Lace, pretty near garbage story. This movie, the story idea is there. The script, screenplay, dialogue, scenes, all suck. Music was good, entertaining. Cinematography was good, but not great. Sets great. Edwidge was great. The rest of the cast were OK. But, without the story and the scenes this thing is a joke. It went from great, to boring, to what the hell is this. The scene with the girl walking in the beginning, and then looking through the window at the party and Edwidge dancing and the fake killing, is all great stuff. Where did they get all those plastic body bags, from Planet of Vampire? Those glass balls, suck! No thrills, no death scenes, we get the aftershow!If the producers were to edit a 10 or 15 minute version, with only Edwidge than this particular version may get an 8 stars or even 10. As it stands, this is the best Bava movie I have ever seen. And it gets 3 stars for Edwidge alone. Minus points for all the garbage one must sit through.

Mario Bava accepted make this movie because he needs money,he has a few time to do an did so fast that the movie was a bad review by critics. The Deaths itself didn't appear on any scenes, no blood at all...a sin to giallo's fans...so the picture falling down in theater....discovery later by new critics as new gem from Bava...to me only the gorgeous girl was save the movie...even an Mario Bava's movie!!!

A small group of people come to an island to relax but soon find themselves trapped on the island with a murderer in their midst.I love that the film features Tunisian-born Maurice Poli, who would go on to appear in Bava's "Baron Blood" and star in "Rabid Dogs". He has a such a good look about him, I would watch him in just about anything. (Unfortunately, it seems that he did not make any English-speaking films, so it may be harder for me to track his stuff down.) Craig Butler called the movie "a confusing and not terribly exciting whodunit... the mundane, run-of-the-mill story and the only-adequate cast keep Dolls from being anything but a mediocre movie." I disagree. While it may not be much of a whodunit, I actually enjoyed the cast and thought it developed into much more than "mediocre".

The luscious lady co-stars in this interesting effort from Mario Bava utilizing that old "Ten Little Indians" theme of a group of people being knocked off one at a time.The victims are a group of businessmen - arrogant upper crust jerks all - and their hottie companions who have gathered at an island mansion; the men are determined to make a scientist, Gerry Farrell (William Berger), divulge his formula for an industrial resin. They're willing to pay top dollar, and throw in their wives as bonuses. When he still won't do it, that's when the trouble begins...The movie is done in Bavas' typical artistic style with great use of colour and an effectively isolated setting. Another entertaining touch is the jazzy music score by Piero Umiliani. The scene with the bouncing marbles has to rank as a striking highlight. It's not as thickly atmospheric as Bavas' other efforts - for one thing, it takes place largely in the daytime. But it still has a respectably substantial body count, and the screenplay is just twist laden enough to make it intriguing. Although the viewer is likely to figure out one of the twists, they may not see all of them coming. One thing that really does help is the hilarious dark humour, as the bodies, one after another, are hung up in a meat locker.The acting from the cast is perfectly acceptable, including Maurice Poli as Nick, Howard Ross as Jack, and Teodoro Corra as George. The "five dolls" of the title are enticing and very easy to watch; Fenech sears the screen in a variety of provocative outfits, also appearing are Ira von Furstenberg as Trudy, Helena Ronee as Peggy, Ely Galleani as Isabel, and Edith Meloni as Jill.Ultimately, this isn't one of Bavas' best efforts - it's enjoyable and well made but one can sense something of a "throw away" quality about it. But you certainly could do worse. There is a certain appeal in seeing a variety of worthless greedy pricks receive their just desserts, and if nothing else "5 Dolls for an August Moon" is consistently amusing. It is somewhat refreshing to see a movie of this kind not be completely serious about itself.A good if not great giallo.Seven out of 10.