Sometimes dismissed as low-quality escapist fare, the Peplums allowed newer directors such as Sergio Leone and Mario Bava, a means of breaking into the film industry.

Italy has produced many important cinematography auteurs, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Zeffirelli, Mario Bava, Sergio Corbucci, Lucio Fulci, Mario Monicelli, Marco Ferreri, Elio Petri, Ermanno Olmi, Umberto Lenzi, Lina Wertmüller, and Luchino Visconti.

During the 1960s and 70s, Italian filmmakers Mario Bava, Riccardo Freda, Antonio Margheriti and Dario Argento developed giallo horror films that become classics and influenced the genre in other countries.

In France, Eyes Without a Face ( 1960 ) continued the mad scientist theme, while in Italy director Mario Bava began his own series of horror films.

* Mario Bava's 1971 film, Twitch of the Death Nerve ( aka Carnage ), written by Bava, Giuseppe Zaccariello and Filippo Ottoni, features dialogue around the 10-minute mark describing the squonk and its attributes.

Cunningham, inspired by John Carpenter's Halloween, and films by Mario Bava, wanted Friday the 13th to be shocking, visually stunning and " you jump out of your seat ".

Argento subsequently took a break from directing to write two screenplays for Mario Bava's son, Lamberto Bava: Dèmoni ( 1985 ) and Dèmoni 2 ( 1986 ).

* The Whip and the Body ( La Frusta e il Corpo ) ( 1963 ), directed by Mario Bava and starring Christopher Lee and Daliah Lavi

* Italian director and cinematographer Mario Bava was born in Sanremo in 1914.

The Anthony Quinn film Attila ( directed by Pietro Francisci in 1954 ), the Kirk Douglas epic Ulysses ( co-directed by an uncredited Mario Bava in 1954 ) and Helen of Troy ( directed by Robert Wise with Sergio Leone as an uncredited second unit director in 1955 ) were the first of the big peplum films of the 1950s.

* Hercules in the Haunted World ( Ercole al centro della terra / Hercules at the Center of the Earth ) 1961 ( directed by Mario Bava ) starring Reg Park

* Erik the Conqueror ( 1961 ) a. k. a. Gli Invasori / The Invaders, directed by Mario Bava, starring Cameron Mitchell

* Knives of the Avenger ( 1967 ) a. k. a. Viking Massacre, directed by Mario Bava

* Odyssey, The ( 1968 ) Cyclops segment directed by Mario Bava ; Samson Burke played the Cyclops

* Odyssey, The ( 1968 ) Cyclops segment directed by Mario Bava ; Samson Burke played Polyphemus the Cyclops

* Erik the Conqueror ( 1961 ) a. k. a. The Invaders, directed by Mario Bava, starring Cameron Mitchell

* Knives of the Avenger ( 1967 ) Cameron Mitchell, directed by Mario Bava

Piccoli has worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Louis Malle, Agnès Varda, Leos Carax, Luis Buñuel, Costa-Gavras, Alfred Hitchcock, Marco Ferreri, Jacques Rivette, Otar Iosseliani, Nanni Moretti, Jacques Doillon, Mario Bava, Manoel de Oliviera, Raul Ruiz, Theodoros Angelopoulos and Alain Resnais.

A few examples include Five Dolls for an August Moon ( 1970 ) directed by Mario Bava, Identity ( 2003 ), Mindhunters ( 2004 ), made-for-television films ( Dead Man's Island, 1996 ), a miniseries ( Harper's Island, 2009 ), and episodic television such as The Avengers (" The Superlative Seven "), The Wild Wild West (" The Night of The Tottering Tontine ") both from 1967, and Remington Steele (" Steele Trap ") in 1982.

The first important film in this genre is Blood and Black Lace ( 1964 ) directed by Mario Bava.

Giallo films that follow a murder mystery format include Five Dolls for an August Moon ( 1970 ) by Mario Bava, three by director Dario Argento: The Cat o ' Nine Tails, Four Flies on Grey Velvet ( both 1971 ), and Deep Red ( 1975 ) – as well as A Lizard in a Woman's Skin ( 1971 ), Black Belly of the Tarantula ( 1971 ), Who Saw Her Die?

Mario Bava ( 31 July 1914 – 25 April 1980 ) was an Italian director, screenwriter, special effects artist and cinematographer, remembered as one of the greatest names from the " golden age " of Italian horror films, and is considered to have kick-started the giallo film genre.

Mario Bava was born in Sanremo, Liguria.

While side-scrolling games in the vein of Super Mario Bros. are possible on the system ( 1990's Scrapyard Dog is the best example ), it is significantly harder to develop such a title than on a tile-based system such as the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Cesare is the main antagonist of the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, acting as Captain-General of the Papal army in Rome and ordering an assault on the castle-town of Monteriggioni, home to the protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze's uncle, Mario Auditore.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

In the Italian Ambrosio companies film La mala planta ( The Evil Plant ), directed by Mario Caserini, which involves a case of poisoning, there is an Insert shot of a snake slithering over the ‘ Evil Plant ’.

Italian Comedy is generally considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's I soliti Ignoti ( Big Deal on Madonna Street ) and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorzio all ' Italiana ( Divorce Italian Style, 1961 ).

Also considered Spaghetti Westerns is a film genre which combined traditional western ambiance with a Commedia all ' italiana-type comedy ; films including They Call Me Trinity and Trinity Is STILL My Name !, which featured Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, the stage names of Carlo Pedersoli and Mario Girotti.

In 2008, Francesco Cossiga told about Mario Draghi: " He is a craven moneyman ".

The current President of Italy is Giorgio Napolitano and current Prime Minister of Italy is Mario Monti.

Mario Botta ( born April 1, 1943 ) is a Swiss architect.

* 1994 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.

* Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Capriccio Diabolico for classical guitar is a homage to Paganini, and quotes " La campanella "

In 1983, Mario Bunge has suggested the categories of " belief fields " and " research fields " to help distinguish between pseudoscience and science, where the first is primarily personal and subjective and the latter involves a certain systematic approach.

Mario Javier Fernandez-Vega is a legendary Puerto Rican forester, famous for his innovative silvicultural techniques and flamboyant soccer talent.

* In the novel The War of the End of the World from Latin American writer Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the main characters is Galileo Gall, a phrenologist whose name refers to Galileo Galilei and Franz Joseph Gall, founder of the science of phrenology.

Dr Silvano Gallus, of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmaceutical Research in Milan, attributed it to lycopene, an antioxidant chemical in tomatoes, which is thought to offer some protection against cancer.

However, every game since then has stated her as being a female, the reasoning behind this is likely that the ending of the game revealed that Mario had been dreaming, therefore the game doesn't necessarily play into other elements of the series.

The game is also seen as having been key to expanding the Mario series into non-platforming games, where the main goal in platform games is when the hero has to rescue the damsel in distress ; this diversity has led to it become the best-selling game franchise of all time.

Super Mario Kart is a kart-racing game featuring several single and multiplayer modes.

Mario Kart GP is the same as in single player, the only difference being that there are now two human controlled drivers and six computer controlled drivers.

Super Mario Kart was the first game to feature playable characters from the Mario series other than Mario in a non-platforming game and the selection and different attributes of the characters is regarded as one of the game's strengths, IGN describing a well-balanced " all-star cast ".