Person DA·P·0002
Boris Karloff
British actor who became a horror icon with Frankenstein (1931). In I tre volti della paura he is both narrator and Vurdalak.
- Birth name
- William Henry Pratt DOC: Documented
- Born
- London, 1887 DOC: Documented
- Died
- 1969 DOC: Documented
- Role in the film
- Presenter; Gorca in «I Wurdalak» PRIM: Primary source
The narrator
In the 1960s, Karloff was also a television personality, presenting anthology shows. Bava’s use of him as narrator draws on that familiarity¶ Editorial interpretationAn editorial reading, identified explicitly as interpretation., and the AIP release amplifies it with introductions to each episode.
Network
Connections
3 direct connections · 32 further links. Dashed lines indicate weak or unproven links.
Films (1)
Black Sabbath
I tre volti della paura · Les Trois Visages de la peur
People (1)
American International Pictures
Creatures (1)
Vurdalak
- Area
- Russia, Balkans
- Earliest attestations
- 19th century (literary form)
- Mario Bava 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
- 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
- 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
- Rome place · via Black Sabbath
- Black Sunday film · 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
- Vampires of Eastern Europe collection · via Vurdalak
- Strigoi creature · via Vurdalak
- La Guzla source · via Vurdalak
- Sem’ja vurdalakov film · via Vurdalak
Revision history
- First draft.— Editorial team
How to cite this page
Redazione Dread Atlas, «Boris Karloff», Dread Atlas, Entry DA·P·0002, updated 13 September 2026. https://macabralia.com/en/people/boris-karloff/