Person DA·P·0004
American International Pictures
An American production and distribution company that brought Italian Gothic to the US market by retitling, re-editing and re-dubbing films.
- Founders
- James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff DOC: Documented
- Bava films distributed
- Black Sunday (1960), Black Sabbath (1963) DOC: Documented
- Recurring practices
- New titles, new music, dialogue rewritten in dubbing DOC: Documented
Its role in the atlas
AIP is a key node in the history of versions: many European films reached English-speaking audiences in reworked form● DocumentedCorroborated by multiple reliable and independent sources.. The case of I tre volti della paura is among the best documented.
Network
Connections
8 direct connections · 24 further links. Dashed lines indicate weak or unproven links.
- Film
- Creature · ritual
- Motif
- Source
- Person
- Weak link
Films (2)
Black Sabbath
I tre volti della paura · Les Trois Visages de la peur
Black Sunday
Black Sunday
Glossary (2)
Dubbing
Alternate cut
Collections (1)
Films changed by dubbing
People (2)
Boris Karloff
Mario Bava
Versions (1)
I tre volti della paura vs 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
- Italian Gothic collection · via Black Sabbath
- Censorship glossary · via Black Sabbath
- Literary adaptation glossary · via Black Sabbath
- The Vurdalak, from folklore to cinema bloodline · via Black Sabbath
- Eastern Europe place · via Black Sabbath
- Rome 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
- Vij (Gogol, 1835) source · via Black Sunday
Revision history
- First draft.— Editorial team
How to cite this page
Redazione Dread Atlas, «American International Pictures», Dread Atlas, Entry DA·P·0004, updated 20 September 2026. https://macabralia.com/en/people/american-international-pictures/