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Black Sabbath
starring: Michèle Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Boris Karloff, Mark Damon, Susy Andersen
directed by: Mario Bava, Salvatore Billitteri

Used Price: $4.96
Collectible Price: $14.99

Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305066859
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 630506685X
Label: United Home
Manufacturer: United Home
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: United Home
Release Date: July 28, 1998
Running Time: 92 minutes
Studio: United Home
Theatrical Release Date: May 06, 1964
Sales Rank: 40102

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
When American audiences first saw Mario Bava's 1963 horror trilogy, it wasn't the same film he had made in Italy. Finding it too terrifying for kids (imagine that!), AIP pictures trimmed it of violence and intensity, rescored it, and renamed it in order to cash in on the success of Black Sunday. New tongue-in-cheek introductions with costar Boris Karloff were added, the segments were rearranged, and one segment was completely rewritten in the dubbing. It was a good film even in its butchered form, but the original Italian version is excellent. The correctly ordered stories begin with "The Telephone," a gripping, ornate thriller that anticipates Bava's later "giallo" horror classics such as Blood and Black Lace. (In the American version, lesbian overtones were removed and the escaped criminal killer was turned into a vengeful ghost.) Karloff stars as a demonic, wild-haired patriarch in the eerie "The Wurdulak," a gorgeous vampire tale shot on misty, menacing sets. The masterpiece of the collection is "The Drop of Water," a chilling ghost story with shiver inducing imagery: the piercing dead eyes of the restless corpse will haunt you long after the film is over. Bava's original framing sequence ends with a playful tribute to the magic of moviemaking and storytelling, a sweet coda to remind us that it's only a movie.

The print suffers slightly from wear and tear and water damage but the colors are sharp and vivid. It's a bit disconcerting to hear Karloff dubbed in Italian, but that's a small price to pay for seeing the film in its original, uncut form. The DVD also features an extensive gallery of production and promotional stills, biographies, and liner notes by Bava historian Tim Lucas. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Black Sabbath
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....

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- A mixed bag of horrors
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 ... Read More

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- Black Sabbath
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..

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- Buyer BEWARE! NOT the English Version
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 ... Read More

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- OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.........
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 ... Read More

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