![]() ![]() The version that you watch such as the European cut, North American cut or Italian cut will change the story order. His camera moves fluidly somewhat jarringly through this landscape often relying on some contrived set pieces such as the three faces of the principal players in a window at the end of the Wurdulak. Black Sabbath 1963 was a low-budget horror film, an international cast and foreign financial backing. Mario Bava fills the film with colour splashes, swirling fog banks, homes, castles, ruins, and villages. Italian companies were eager to do these pictures as they could use their stars coupled usually females in prominent roles with American actors cheaper than having them for a feature.īlack Sabbath 1963 is three separate stories that are introduced by Boris Karloff. I viewed the Italian print of the film which is the original version. American International Pictures struck a deal to produce these pictures for a North American audience. Orloff 1962 (Spanish: Gritos en la Noche, ‘Screams in the Night’), written and directed by Jess Franco, had done the same for Spain. ![]() Mario Bava had already made Black Sunday (1960) that brought Italian Horror to the attention of many. Those reasons are beyond the 2021 version of me and perhaps others as well. However, at the time of the initial release, the picture was a failure with audiences and critics. Black Sabbath (Italian: I tre volti della paura or ‘The Three Faces of Fear’) is a 1963 anthology film directed in its entirety by Mario Bava. The Bava name should be enough to make it something special. Portmanteau films, in general, seem inconsistent in the quality of the story and often in the direction. ![]()
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