Black Sabbath (I Tre volti della paura) (The Three Faces of Fear) (The Three Faces of Terror)

Black Sabbath (I Tre volti della paura) (The Three Faces of Fear) (The Three Faces of Terror) (1963)

  • 83% of critics liked it
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  • 75% of users liked it
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This anthology features three chilling horror stories. "Il Telefono" is credited to Guy de Maupassant, although he never wrote such a story, and concerns a woman (Michele Mercier) receiving telephone calls from beyond the grave. "Wurdulak", by Alexei Tolstoi, stars Boris Karloff… More

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Unrated,
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Genres
Art House & International, Horror
In Theaters
May 6, 1963 Wide
Anchor Bay Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • , Time Out

    Vintage Bava.

  • Steve Biodrowski, ESplatter

    Only one episode [of this anthology] reaches the critical mass that explodes into the kind of absolute terror that will satisfy skeptic and fan alike, but that is more than enough to make this essential viewing.

  • Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

    An exemplar of expressionistic visual storytelling.

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

    ...a trilogy of sporadically chilling yet ultimately ineffective horror tales...

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

    I'm not easily scared, but this one gave me chills.

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  • El Hombre I


    Mario Bava's "Black Sabbath" or "I Tre volti della paura" is an old school form of horror filmmaking. I don't mean that in the sense of it being "old". I mean it's horror done in a fashion that's seemingly long gone. Slow takes,… More

  • Jeff "


    Mario Bava's Black Sabbath is a definite horror classic. This horror film is an anthology with three terrific, horrifying stories. Brilliantly directed with a good dose of atmospheric dread for each story, and narrated by legendary horror icon, Boris Karloff; Black Sabbath is an… More

  • Cassandra M


    Three macabre tales."the telephone".a woman is plagued by threatening calls but all is not what it seems."the wurdaluk".in 18th century Russia a family wait for their father, now a vampire to come home and claim his loved ones and suck their blood."a drop of… More

  • Michael G


    Great almost camp horror movie. Of the 3 stories, "The Drop of Water" is definitely the best because the last 5 minutes of it actually freaked me out. I haven't been that scared in years. The intro and the outro bring down the movie. Boris Karloff comes out like… More

  • AJ V


    This is an anthology horror movie, some of the stories are good, and some aren't so good, but overall it's a pretty good movie.

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