Hold on to your ancestral family curses, because Black Sunday is The Greatest Movie EVER!
Click on the Blu-ray cover or the title above to download our review of the film, featuring Megan, aka “Brainchild“, from The Manga Test Drive.
Review in a Nutshell: A sumptuous pre-giallo Gothic horror film that is also a blatant Dracula rip-off, Black Sunday highlights the aesthetic choices that earned director Mario Bava the title of the godfather of Italian horror.
I prefer the title “Mask of the Demon” not only because it better fits the content of the film, but also because “Black Sunday” is the title of a Thomas Harris novel adapted into film by John Frankenheimer. It’s because of this that “Black Sabbath” got its English-language title, hence the band of the same name.
The Inquisition wasn’t responsible for the witch hunts, hence it happening in famously anti-Papist Salem. Eastern Europe would have been Orthodox rather than Catholic, and hence without any Inquisition.