Film
Encounters: Black Sabbath
- Director
- Mario Bava
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 95 mins
Yes, it’s the movie that inspired a heavy metal band name. Italian master Mario Bava‘s 1963 follow-up to his hit Black Sunday is a portmanteau horror whose three segments are introduced by the great Boris Karloff. In The Telephone, a prostitute is stalked by her escaped convict pimp and attempts to flee with her lesbian lover. (You may be amused to learn that all references to prositituion and lesbianism were excised from the English-language version of the film.) The Drop of Water has a nurse nicking a ring from a corpse, only to find its original owner popping back from the afterlife to wreak revenge. Loosely adapted from Tolstoy’s The Family of the Vourdalak, The Wurdalak casts Karloff himself as a vampire who’s cured to nosh only on friends and family.
https://youtu.be/beAcj_XNt78
It’s back on screen in the Encounters festival’s welcome Italian horror strand. Go here for tickets.
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