Mario Bava's Black Sunday [1960](720p HD - AAC Stereo)

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Mario Bava's ...


Black Sunday (1960)
["La maschera del demonio">


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Black Sunday (Italian: La maschera del demonio;
also known as The Mask of Satan and Revenge of
the Vampire) is a 1960 Italian gothic horror film
directed by Mario Bava, from a screenplay by Ennio
de Concini, Mario Serandrei and Marcello Coscia
(who was uncredited). It was Bava's directorial
debut, although he had completed several previous
feature films without credit. Based very loosely
on Nikolai Gogol's short story "Viy", the narrative
concerns a vampire-witch who is put to death by her
own brother, only to return 200 years later to seek
revenge on her descendants.

By the social standards of the 1960s, Black Sunday
was considered unusually gruesome, and was banned
in the UK until 1968 because of its violence. In
the U.S., some of the gore was censored, in-house,
by the distributor American International Pictures
before its theatrical release to the country's
cinemas. Despite the censorship, Black Sunday was
a worldwide critical and box office success, and
launched the careers of director Mario Bava and
movie star Barbara Steele. In 2004, one of its
sequences was voted number 40 among the "100
Scariest Movie Moments" by the Bravo TV network.


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STORY:

In the Seventeenth Century, in Maldavia, Princess
Asa Vajda and her lover Javutich (Arturo Dominici)
are killed by the local population, accused of
witchcraft. A mask of Satan is attached to their
faces. Princess Asa curses her brother, promising
revenge to his descents. The body of Javutich is
buried outside the cemetery, and the coffin of
Princess Asa is placed in the family's tomb with a
cross over it for protection. Two hundred years later,
Professor Thomas Kruvajan and his assistant, Dr.
Andre Gorobec, are going to a congress in Russia and
they accidentally find the tomb. Dr. Thomas breaks the
cross, releasing the evil witch. When they are leaving
the place, Dr. Andre meets Princess Katia Vajda,
descendant of Princess Asa, and falls in love with
her. Meanwhile, Katia is threatened by the witch, who
wants to use her body to live again.


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CAST:

Barbara Steele - Katia Vajda / Princess Asa Vajda
John Richardson - Dr. Andre Gorobec
Andrea Checchi - Dr. Thomas Kruvajan
Ivo Garrani - Prince Vajda
Arturo Dominici
Enrico Olivieri
Antonio Pierfederici
.... more!


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IMDB Rating: 7.4 (6/17/15) [0054067]

Rating and parental guide info for this film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054067/parentalguide


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Video: 1216x720 -- H.264 (x264)
Audio: Dolby Pro Logic II -- 160kbps (Stereo)
Subtitle(s): English


Writing App: JEMIII Media XCode 1.66.024


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