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.
Reviews (4)
talisencrw (Rated: 9)
This was just great. My first Bava experience--hopefully I'll eventually take in his entire oeuvre.
Dsnake1 (Rated: 7)
Black Sunday is a black and white gothic horror film focused on the revenge plot of an executed plot and the people trying to stop her.
The plot itself is fine. It's nothing extra special, but it facilitates the movie well enough. The characters and many of the other general building blocks of th...
LordVitriol (Rated: 10)
A diabolical witch and her partner who were executed 200 years ago return from the grave to possess the body of her identical descendent.
How exactly does one begin a review on such a seminal horror classic as Black Sunday? Mario Bava’s directorial debut also serves as his masterpiece, and helped...Dr_Nostromo (Rated: 7)
73/100
This Italian, Mario Bava, classic features a witch in the 17th century, fitted with the mask of Satan and sealed in a tomb inside a coffin with a window so she would have to stare at a cross for eternity. Well, 200 years, a broken window, a broken cross and a few drops of blood later, she'...
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