Fresh
The visual style still impresses, but the story beneath it has become too formularised for the film to retain all its original power.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Black Sunday
STARE INTO THESE EYES...Discover deep within them the unspeakable, terrifying secret of BLACK SUNDAY...It will paralyze you with fright!
1960 · 1h 26m · NOT RATED
Horror
Directed by
Mario Bava
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Black Sunday
Overview
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
Director and cast
- Mario Bava Director
- Barbara Steele as Katia Vajda / Princess Asa Vajda
- John Richardson as Dr. Andre Gorobec
- Andrea Checchi as Dr. Choma Kruvajan / Dr. Thomas Kruvajan
- Ivo Garrani as Prince Vajda
- Arturo Dominici as Igor Javutich / Javuto
- Enrico Olivieri as Prince Constantine Vajda
- Antonio Pierfederici as Priest
- Tino Bianchi Cast
- Clara Bindi Cast
- Mario Passante Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It will leave its audiences yearning for that quiet, sunny little motel in Psycho.
Eugene Archer, New York Times
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