Black Sunday

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.

Cast

Barbara Steele

as Princess Asa Vajda / Katia Vajda

John Richardson

as Dr. Andrej Gorobec / Dr. Andreas Gorobec

Andrea Checchi

as Dr. Choma Kruvajan / Dr. Thomas Kruvajan

Ivo Garrani

as Prince Vajda

Arturo Dominici

as Igor Javutich / Javuto

Enrico Olivieri

as Prince Constantine Vajda

Antonio Pierfederici

as Priest

Tino Bianchi

as Ivan - Manservant

Clara Bindi

as Inn Keeper

Mario Passante

as Nikita - Coachman

Reviews

talisencrw

This was just great. My first Bava experience--hopefully I'll eventually take in his entire oeuvre....

Dsnake1

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 th...

LordVitriol

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...

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