Black Sabbath (Italian with subtitles)

Rated 7.0/10 on IMDb. Mario Bava's masterpiece of Italian Gothic horror — presented here in its original Italian-language cut with subtitles, widely considered the definitive version. Boris Karloff hosts three chilling tales of the supernatural: In The Telephone, a woman is terrorized by threatening phone calls from a mysterious stalker she cannot escape. In The Wurdulak — the film's centerpiece — Karloff himself plays Gorca, a patriarch who returns to his family after slaying a Wurdulak, a Slavic vampire that feeds only on those it loves most; what follows is one of Bava's most atmospheric and genuinely terrifying set-pieces. In The Drop of Water, a greedy nurse steals a ring from the finger of a corpse she is preparing for burial — and finds herself haunted by its rightful owner in a sequence that remains one of the most frightening scenes in horror history. Shot in stunning Technicolor by Bava himself, whose legendary command of light, shadow, and color transformed every frame into a painting, Black Sabbath was so influential that the British rock band Black Sabbath named themselves after it. The Italian cut presented here restores the original segment order and Roberto Nicolosi's original score — essential viewing for any fan of classic horror, Italian cinema, or the art of the anthology film. Free with ads.