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Director
Mario Bava
Year
1963
Country
Italy, France
Runtime
92 min

Also released as

  • I tre volti della paura
  • The Three Faces of Fear
  • The Three Faces of Terror
  • Las tres caras del miedo
  • Die 3 Gesichter der Furcht
  • Der Ring der Verdammten
  • Les trois visages de la peur
  • Drie Aangezichten van de Verschrikking
  • ブラック・サバス 恐怖! 三つの顔
  • Black Sabbath: As Três Máscaras do Terror

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Black Sabbath

Three Bava stories introduced by Boris Karloff, and the middle one is the most frightening thing Bava shot.

The Telephone is a proto-giallo in one room: a woman alone receiving calls, and it is essentially the template Black Christmas used a decade later.

The Wurdalak has Karloff as a patriarch returning to his family after hunting a vampire, possibly infected, and it contains a small child at a door asking to be let in that is deeply upsetting.

The Drop of Water is the reason the film has a reputation. A nurse steals a ring from a dead medium's finger. The corpse's face, a wax mould with a fixed grin, is one of the most disturbing images in any horror film, and it appears in a well-lit bedroom.

The American International version reorders the stories, rescores them and rewrites the framing into comedy. Find the Italian cut.

Tarantino named his band after it, which is why the group exists.

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