Film DA·F·0002 In progress
Black Sunday
La maschera del demonio
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.
- Direction
- Mario Bava PRIM: Primary source
- Credited source
- N. V. Gogol, Vij PRIM: Primary source
- Relationship to source
- Free reworking of the premise ATTR: Critical attribution
Preliminary entry
The full dossier is in preparation. The film is already linked to the editorial cluster because it began the collaboration between Bava and AIP● DocumentedCorroborated by multiple reliable and independent sources. that three years later produced the two versions of I tre volti della paura.
Connections
6 direct connections · 27 further links. Dashed lines indicate weak or unproven links.
- Film
- Creature · ritual
- Motif
- Source
- Person
- Weak link
Collections (2)
Italian Gothic
Italian Gothic
Films (1)
Black Sabbath
I tre volti della paura · Les Trois Visages de la peur
People (3)
Mario Bava
American International Pictures
Mario Bava
Sources (1)
Vij (Gogol, 1835)
Places (1)
Rome
- I vampiri (Freda, 1957) film · via Italian Gothic
- 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
- Films changed by dubbing collection · via American International Pictures
Revision history
- Preliminary entry; dossier in preparation.— Editorial team
How to cite this page
Redazione Dread Atlas, «Black Sunday», Dread Atlas, Entry DA·F·0002, updated 20 September 2026. https://macabralia.com/en/film/la-maschera-del-demonio-1960/