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Black Sabbath | 
 enlarge | Directors: Mario Bava, Salvatore Billitteri
Actors: Boris Karloff, Michèle Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Mark Damon, Susy Andersen
Studio: Starz
Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 7298
Genre: Horror
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Release Date: July 24, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Synopsis:
Boris Karloff is your host for Mario Bava's 1963 classic triptych of terror, which set new standards in graphic violence and spellbinding horror. Michèle Mercier stars in The Telephone, a tale of lesbian obsession and murder. In The Wurdalak, Karloff stars with Mark Damon as the patriarch of a family of bloodthirsty ghouls. And in The Drop of Water, Jacqueline Pierreux is a nurse stalked by the vengeful spirit of a dead medium. This presentation of Bava's original uncut international version features the original score and Italian language track. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 71 more reviews...
 Black Sabbath July 20, 2008
CatziAggie (Long Island, NY USA)
I had seen this movie a number of times on tv...It is a few different stories...I love the old B-movie scary, vampire legends...only when I viewed the movie on tv, it was dubbed in english...I had no idea this would be in Italian with subtitles...disappointed with that...I really think the voice of Boris makes the whole vampire story stand out...oh well...thumbs down on this version....
 A mixed bag of horrors April 28, 2008
Trevor Willsmer (London, England)
Mario Bava's entry in the Cormanesque compilation horror stakes, The Three Faces of Fear aka Black Sabbath suffers the format's common problem - the variable quality of the individual stories. In this case, in the Italian cut at least, that's somewhat exacerbated by having the best of the three in the middle of the picture, leaving it somewhat anticlimactic. The stories' heritage isn't in doubt, based on stories by Chekhov, Tolstoy and Maupassant, but neither opener The Telephone, about a woman harassed by phone calls that may be from the lover she betrayed to the police, or A Drop of Water, about a nurse who finds herself terrorized by her imagination after stealing a ring from a dead woman she laid out, offer much in the way of surprise or chills. Neither, it's true, does the central and longest story, The Wurdalak, yet that tale of a family gradually picked off by vampires cursed to drink the blood of those they love most in the world is executed with enough panache, striking visuals and unexpected nastiness (a child is the first to die) to keep you intrigued even though you know exactly where it's going.
A dubbed Boris Karloff provides the star power for this sequence as well as the introduction and epilogue, which features an initially inept shot that turns into a truly delightful in-joke by the time the end credit is ready to appear (the new intros he filmed for the US version of the film are not included on Anchor Bay's DVD of the original Italian version, although they can be glimpsed in the disc's US trailer, part of an actionably misleading US advertising campaign that included a poster of a headless horseman that doesn't appear in either version of the film!).
Black Sabbath January 31, 2008
B. Newby
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
OK.. so the movie is really good.. A really good watch, but buyers should be aware, the language is not always in English.. Some versions of the movie are only subtitled in English.. You spend more time reading than you do watching the movie..
Buyer BEWARE! NOT the English Version January 7, 2008
Roland Gonzales (NM, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
BUYER BEWARE! Although the Product Details are specific, the language part in not correct. This DVD version is the Italian with English sub-titles. If you are like me and remember seeing the U.S. release in the
Theatres or on TV as a kid, and would like to have the English version for your collection - DO NOT order this DVD from this seller. If you do want the Italian with sub-titles, then go ahead and place your order from this seller. You'll be very happy with this DVD.
Good, now that I got that out of the way. I really like this 3 tales of suspense and horror flick. I remember seeing this film on a Friday late-night TV show called Creature Feature back in the late 60's. My Dad would wake me up minutes before Midnight to watch the movie of the night and "Black Sabbath" would be the regular film in the weekly rotation of Horror and/or Monster movies. So, this film made an impact on me and has sentimental value as well.
The first tale "The Telephone" was my least favorite of the 3 stories in this film. Since the U.S. version was heavily edited for American audiences, I found this story more fasicinating with the vengeful Lesbian twist in the original Italian version. Of course, Michelle Mercier is a delight to watch and easy on the eyes. Boris Karloff plays a Wurdulak (vampire who drinks the blood of his loved ones) in the second tale of the film called "The Wurdulak" - of course. Even though there are no graphic scenes of biting or blood spurting everywhere (like todays vampire movies), this story still has some eerie and chilling atmosphere and Mr. Karloff does a wonderful acting performance as a vampire hungry for blood. The last story "The Drop of Water" is the one that made the most impact on me. For the time when this was filmed, it really scared me as a child. The face of the dead medium was enough to give me nightmares and make it hard for me to fall asleep...I was 8. I never forgot that pale, scary and frightening look with the wild white hair floating across the room to kill the woman who stole her valuable Jeweled Ring near the end of the film.
If you like old horror flicks like this one, get both versions. I did and I'm glad they still make copies of this movie for us fans of Old School Horror. Great memories! - Roland Gonzales
OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO......... November 25, 2007
Stanley Runk (Camp North Pines)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's Black Sabbath! And I'm not talking about those crazy hippies who play that heavy metal devil music either-Mario Bava's Black Sabbath! It's considered one of the high points in Bava's career, and easy to see why. It's an anthology horror film made up of three seperate stories. The first is about a woman alone being terrorized by threatening phone calls. The second story with Boris Karloff is a slight variation of the vampire myth with a stranger meeting a family in the woods who are involved in some spooky stuff. The third is another great example of why you should never attempt graverobbery if you're in a horror film. A woman steals the ring off the hand of a dead woman and soon comes to realize that the dead woman is dreadfully attached to it. The story with Karloff is the best of the bunch, and I'm sure most would agree. Bava really shows us how good he is with visuals. It'll remind you of a Hammer film, but with some of Bava's trademark wacky colors. The first story isn't bad, but you'll have that ending figured out long before it happens. The third story is quite short and it's easy to see why. It'll remind you of a Tales From The Crypt story. Nothing too earth shattering, but the corpse of the old woman looks kinda creepy. Alot of Bava's flashing, colorful lights set the mood in this one. A movie definitely seeing if you like, or are interested in Bava's style. Yes, this is the Italian version as so many have said before me. Most horror fans don't mind(or just downright prefer) films with subtitles. I certainly don't mind coz I can eat my Cornuts without missing dialogue or having to turn it up. But if you don't like them, just be forwarned that there is no English Audio option. So, you people better all beware!
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