66%User score 66 percent
Inferno
1980 · Horror · Thriller
User Score
599 votes
STARE INTO THESE EYES...Discover deep within them the unspeakable, terrifying secret of BLACK SUNDAY...It will paralyze you with fright!
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
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talisencrw
August 12, 2016
This was just great. My first Bava experience--hopefully I'll eventually take in his entire oeuvre.
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October 4, 2018
Black Sunday is a black and white gothic horror film focused on the revenge plot of an executed plot and the people trying to stop her. The plot itself is fine. It's nothing extra special, but it facilitates the movie well enough. The characters and many of the other general building blocks of the film are also fine. So why is this movie worth watching? Well, the director, Mario Bava, does a stellar job of setting th…
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LordVitriol
October 5, 2022
A diabolical witch and her partner who were executed 200 years ago return from the grave to possess the body of her identical descendent. How exactly does one begin a review on such a seminal horror classic as Black Sunday? Mario Bava’s directorial debut also serves as his masterpiece, and helped initiate his legacy as one of the greatest directors of horror films in history. Bava had of course had extensive experien…
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Dr Nostromo
April 30, 2026
73/100 This Italian, Mario Bava, classic features a witch in the 17th century, fitted with the mask of Satan and sealed in a tomb inside a coffin with a window so she would have to stare at a cross for eternity. Well, 200 years, a broken window, a broken cross and a few drops of blood later, she's waking up ...and she's not happy. Exquisite B&W photography by Bava, exceptional sets, classic overly dramatic and theatr…
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