Product Notes
In Mario Bava's gothic horror masterpiece steeped in rich atmosphere,condemned witch Princess Asa (Barbara Steele) returns from the dead two centuries after her execution and wreaks vengeance on her killers' family. Possessing the body of a descendant who happens to look just like her, Asa pulls out all the stops to exact her revenge. This is Bava's credited directorial debut, and it catapulted Steele and him to stardom.
Product Reviews
Generally considered to be the foremost example of Italian Gothic horror, this darkly atmospheric black-and-white chiller put director Mario Bava on the international map and made the bewitching Barbara Steele a star. Steele plays Princess Asa, a high priestess of Satan who is gruesomely executed in 1600s Moldavia by having a spiked mask hammered into her face. Before she dies, Asa vows revenge on the family who killed her and returns from the grave two centuries later to keep her promise. In a striking resurrection scene replete with bats, scorpions and fog, Asa rises from the tomb to claim her bloody vengeance. With vampires, bubbling flesh, dank crypts, undead servants and torch-bearing mobs, the plot is a little ripe, but the visuals are Bava's primary consideration. The atmosphere is so heavy and the imagery so dense that the film becomes nearly too rich in texture, but the sheer, ghastly beauty of it all is entrancing. Although this was only the second of Bava's twenty-six films as director, it is undoubtedly his best and the one upon which most of his considerable reputation rests. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
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Barbara Steele |
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Black Sunday |
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Horror |
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18 September 2012 |
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Barbara Steele(Asa / Katia), John Richardson(Dr. Andre Gorobec), Ivo Garrani(Prince Vaida), Andrea Checchi(Dr. Tomas Kruvajan), Arturo Dominici(Javuto) |
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Mario Bava |
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Not Rated |
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Blu-ray Disc |
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1041 |
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738329104122 |
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352468X |
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18 September 2012 |
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KINO LORBER ( KNLZ ) |
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86 |
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A: Americas, E Asia |
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1.66:1 (Vistavision), Black and White |
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DDM2.0 |
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Discs:1 ~ Format:Blu-Ray ~ Region:A ~ Country:Usa |
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Amy Steel, Andrea Checchi(Dr. Tomas Kruvajan), Antonio Pierfederici(The Pope), Arturo Dominici(Javuto), Barbara Steele(Asa / Katia), Clara Bindi(The Innkeeper), Enrico Olivieri(Constantin), Germana Dominici(His Daughter), Ivo Garrani(Prince Vaida), John Richardson(Dr. Andre Gorobec), Mario Passante(Nikita), Tino Bianchi(Ivan) |
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Art Director:Giorgio Giovannini, Cinematographer:Mario Bava, Cinematographer:Ubaldo Terzano, Composer (Music Score):Les Baxter, Composer (Music Score):Roberto Nicolosi, Director:Mario Bava, Producer:Massimo de Rita, Screenwriter:Ennio de Concini, Screenwriter:Mario Bava, Screenwriter:Mario Serandrei |
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