A ★★★½ review of Black Sabbath (1963) Una volta noi italiani facevamo il cinema come si deve da cui prendevano ispirazione tutti, pure le band metal. Primo episodio, bel thriller sensuale e che riesce a creare tensione con pochi personagg...

La mia recensione de #itrevoltidellapaura di #mariobava
#blacksabbath #italianhorror #letterboxd #moviereview

Collage of two movie posters (on the left the Italian and on the right the American) for the Italian horror anthology film 'I tre volti della paura'/'Black Sabbath' (1963). Directed by Mario Bava. Starring Boris Karloff, Mark Damon, Susy Andersen, Michèle Mercier and Jacqueline Pierreux. Poster on the left has illustration depicting a close-up of a man's eyes on the upper left corner, hands grasping a nylon stocking on the upper right corner, a blonde woman's head on the bottom left and a seated dark haired woman wearing dress and holding telephone receiver in her left hand on the left. Poster on the right has the tagline "This is the NIGHT of the NIGHTMARE! ...when a headless corpse rides the cold night wind...when a woman's soul inhabits the body of a buzzing Fly!" (in white letters) on top of the poster. Below that on a white background "American International stars Boris Karloff in (in black letters) Black Sabbath (in pinkish letters) ...The most gruesome day in the calendar of the Undead! in (in black letters) Pathecolor (in blue letters)". On the poster an illustration of a headless man on horseback holding a severed head in his left hand, four screaming women on the right and a mountain top castle over looking a church on the bottom left corner of the poster.

Collage of four frames from the Italian horror anthology film 'I tre volti della paura'/'Black Sabbath' (1963). On the top left: Close-up of a blonde woman (Jacqueline Pierreux as Helen Chester) with short hair strangling herself with both hands in a darkened room. On the top right: Close-up of a dark haired woman (Michèle Mercier as Rosy) standing at a white door pressing the right side of her face against the door. On the bottom left: View of the yard outside of a 19th century Serbian farmhouse at night. On the foreground a person wearing a cloak (with his back to the camera) entering the yard. Five people (two men, two women and a child) standing in the background outside the farmhouse. On the bottom right: Close-up of an old moustached man (Boris Karloff as Gorca) peeking through a window (from the outside of the house) at night.

😱 Outside of the aesthetics (very Hammer horror-esque!) there's not much else to praise here. #ITreVoltiDellaPaura / #BlackSabbath certainly isn't scary (unless you happen to be very squeamish). 📽️🎞️

FYI: The heavy metal band Black Sabbath appropriated their name from this film.

Revisionada #LasTresCarasDelMiedo ( #ITreVoltiDellaPaura / #BlackSabbath, 1963) de Mario Bava.
Definitivamente, una de mis películas de antologías de terror favoritas. He FLIPADO más que nunca de su apartado visual, el colorido, la atmósfera… Es como ver un cómic de EC en movimiento…
[Sigo 🧵👇]