The Mask of Satan (Black Sunday) (1960) Movie Review
The Mask of Satan (Black Sunday) (1960) Review
"The Mask of Satan (Black Sunday) (1960)" Overview
Rating: NR
1960
Cast and Crew
Director : Mario Bava,Lee KreselProducer : Massimo De Rita
Screenwiter : Mario Bava,Ennio De Concini,Mario Serandrei
Starring : Barbara Steele,John Richardson,Andrea Checchi,Ivo Garrani,Arturo Dominici
Mario Bava's first film is gorgiously photographed and often eerie, but it
fails to scare much by today's standards. Barbara Steele plays two roles --
one a long-dead witch and the other her princess descendent, for whom the witch
is reborn after 200 years in the grave to, for no other reason than to kill her
for eternal life, etc. Bava proved a real ability with the camera here, but
the predictable and derivative story (with more than a few shades of Nosferatu)
makes it decidedly dull.
Aka La Maschera del demonio.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
