Three solid and scary tales of terror from the undisputed master of Italian horror, Mario Bava.
Black Sabbath(I tre volti della paura)
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Italy, France, United States · 1963
1h 37m
Director Mario Bava
Starring Boris Karloff, Susy Andersen, Mark Damon, Michèle Mercier
Genre Horror
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A call girl receives threatening phone calls from an unknown stalker. A family is made prey to blood-sucking monsters. A deceased medium wreaks havoc on a thieving nurse. Unforgettable scares abound in this eerie and atmospheric anthology film directed by the “Master of Italian Horror” himself.
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Black Sabbath speaks to the vastness of Bava’s abilities in the realms of the terrifying and the supernatural.
There's a little bit of everything in Bava's best-known film, the three-part anthology Black Sabbath.
Back when anthology TV shows such as The Twilight Zone and Thriller were in their heyday, the movies, too, entertained a spate of horror/supernatural multistory features that fans still regard with affection. Director Mario Bava, whose earlier single-story satanic yarn Black Sunday picked up a wide following, turned Sabbath into one of the best. [11 Aug 2000, 8E]
Even with Boris Karloff providing a lighthearted introduction and sign-off, Black Sabbath is fraught with fatalism.
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