Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Arturo Dominici, Ivo Garrani, Andrea Checchi, Enrico Olivieri, Antonio Pierfederici, Tino Bianchi, Clara Bindi, Germana Dominici, Renato Terra, Mario Passante, Nando Gazzolo
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant, Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
This was just great. My first Bava experience--hopefully I'll eventually take in his entire oeuvre.
Black Sunday is a black and white gothic horror film focused on the revenge plot of an executed plot and the people trying to stop her. The plot itself is fine. It's nothing extra special, but it facilitates the movie well enough. The characters and many of the other general building blocks of the film are also fine. So why is this movie worth watching? Well, the director, Mario Bava, does a...
A diabolical witch and her partner who were executed 200 years ago return from the grave to possess the body of her identical descendent. How exactly does one begin a review on such a seminal horror classic as Black Sunday? Mario Bava’s directorial debut also serves as his masterpiece, and helped initiate his legacy as one of the greatest directors of horror films in history. Bava had of course...