Film DA·F·0003
Night of the Devils
La notte dei diavoli
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.
- Direction
- Giorgio Ferroni DOC: Documented
- Source
- La famiglia del Vurdalak ATTR: Critical attribution
Entry
The story’s second Italian adaptation. Any direct debt to Bava’s film○ Unproven similarityAn apparent affinity without evidence of direct derivation. remains to be documented.
Network
Connections
4 direct connections · 32 further links. Dashed lines indicate weak or unproven links.
- Film
- Creature · ritual
- Motif
- Source
- Person
- Weak link
Creatures (2)
Films (1)
Black Sabbath
I tre volti della paura · Les Trois Visages de la peur
Sources (2)
La famiglia del Vurdalak
La famiglia del Vurdalak
Motifs (2)
The family vampire
The family vampire
- The Vurdalak, from folklore to cinema bloodline · via Vurdalak
- Vampires of Eastern Europe collection · via Vurdalak
- Strigoi creature · via Vurdalak
- Vampire creature · via Vurdalak
- Revenant creature · via Vurdalak
- La Guzla source · via Vurdalak
- The vampire child motif · via Vurdalak
- Eastern Europe place · via Vurdalak
- Sem’ja vurdalakov film · via Vurdalak
- Boris Karloff person · via Vurdalak
- A. K. Tolstoy person · via Vurdalak
- Mario Bava person · via Black Sabbath
- American International Pictures person · via Black Sabbath
- Anton Chekhov person · via Black Sabbath
- Guy de Maupassant person · 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
- Italian Gothic collection · 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
- Rome place · via Black Sabbath
- Black Sunday 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
- Vienna place · via La famiglia del Vurdalak
- Visum et Repertum source · via The family vampire
Revision history
- Entry.— Editorial team
How to cite this page
Redazione Dread Atlas, «Night of the Devils», Dread Atlas, Entry DA·F·0003, updated 26 September 2026. https://macabralia.com/en/film/la-notte-dei-diavoli-1972/