Black Sunday
Black Sunday
Mario Bava’s first credited directorial work: a woman executed as a witch returns for revenge. Credited as an adaptation of Gogol, it retains little more than the premise.
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Films
Film dossiers: each film is an entry point into the network of stories that came before and after it.
Black Sabbath
I tre volti della paura · Les Trois Visages de la peur
The anthology film in which Mario Bava and Boris Karloff move through three forms of fear—the domestic deception, the vampire who returns to his loved ones, and the revenge of the dead—and whose American version rewrites its meaning.
Night of the Devils
Night of the Devils
Giorgio Ferroni moves Tolstoy’s story into the early 1970s: the Vurdalak becomes a contemporary nightmare, more explicit than Bava’s film.
Sem’ja vurdalakov
The Vurdalak Family
A Soviet adaptation of Tolstoy’s story, filmed in the final years of the USSR: the Vurdalak returns to the language of its author.
Entries in preparation
Nodes already cited by other entries, awaiting their own entry.
- I vampiri (Freda, 1957)