Lamberto, to direct Shock, as well as a made-for-Italian television
But after the commercial failure of his later films, as well as the
unreleased works of
Rabid Dogs (1974), Bava went
into a decline and by 1975, retired from filmmaking all together. He
was persuaded to come out of retirement at the request of his son,
Lamberto, to direct Shock, as well as a made-for-Italian television
movie. Mario Bava died from a sudden heart
attack on April 27, 1980 at age 65. With his death, an era in Italian
filmmaking had come to a close.