Collection DA·K·0001
Italian Gothic
The cycle of Gothic films produced in Italy between the late 1950s and mid-1960s: castles, portraits, the return of the dead, and a market aimed abroad.
The collection
A path through the films that established Italian Gothic, read through their sources and the international versions in which they circulated.
Network
Connections
5 direct connections · 27 further links. Dashed lines indicate weak or unproven links.
- Film
- Creature · ritual
- Motif
- Source
- Person
- Weak link
Films (4)
I vampiri (Freda, 1957)
Black Sunday
Black Sunday
Black Sabbath
I tre volti della paura · Les Trois Visages de la peur
Black Sunday
Black Sunday
People (2)
Mario Bava
Mario Bava
- Vij (Gogol, 1835) source · via Black Sunday
- American International Pictures person · via Black Sunday
- Boris Karloff person · via Black Sabbath
- La famiglia del Vurdalak source · via Black Sabbath
- A. K. Tolstoy person · via Black Sabbath
- Anton Chekhov person · via Black Sabbath
- Guy de Maupassant person · via Black Sabbath
- Vurdalak creature · via Black Sabbath
- Vampire creature · via Black Sabbath
- Revenant creature · via Black Sabbath
- The family vampire motif · via Black Sabbath
- The vampire child motif · via Black Sabbath
- Theft from the dead motif · via Black Sabbath
- The threatening telephone motif · via Black Sabbath
- The sound that announces the supernatural motif · via Black Sabbath
- The threshold and invitation belief or ritual · via Black Sabbath
- Dubbing glossary · via Black Sabbath
- Censorship glossary · via Black Sabbath
- Alternate cut glossary · via Black Sabbath
- Literary adaptation glossary · via Black Sabbath
- I tre volti della paura vs Black Sabbath version · via Black Sabbath
- The Vurdalak, from folklore to cinema bloodline · via Black Sabbath
- Eastern Europe place · via Black Sabbath
- Night of the Devils film · via Black Sabbath
- Black Sabbath (band) person · via Black Sabbath
- The Chekhov credit: a source that cannot be found journal · via Black Sabbath
- Why Dread Atlas begins with I tre volti della paura journal · via Black Sabbath
Revision history
- First draft.— Editorial team
How to cite this page
Redazione Dread Atlas, «Italian Gothic», Dread Atlas, Entry DA·K·0001, updated 20 September 2026. https://macabralia.com/en/collections/gotico-italiano/