Black Sunday (1960)
Directed by Mario Bava
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.
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Bava chose to adapt the short story Vij by one of his favorite Russian authors, Nikolai Gogol, into an homage to the early Universal horror films (Dracula [1931], Frankenstein [1931] and Bride of Frankenstein [1935]) he had long admired.
It’s very hard today to imagine people fainting at the 1931 Dracula, yet it supposedly happened.
Bava chose to adapt the short story Vij by one of his favorite Russian authors, Nikolai Gogol, into an homage to the early Universal horror films (Dracula [1931], Frankenstein [1931] and Bride of Frankenstein [1935]) he had long admired.
The film's original title La Maschera Del Demonio was a play on the Italian release title of Hammer's The Curse of Frankenstein La Maschera di Frankenstein (1957) which had been a box-office sensation a couple of years earlier.