Mario Bava's classic masterpiece additionally enhanced by the flawless Les Baxter score. Although the foreign score was good,watching "Black Sunday" without the Baxter score is like watching a totally different film.

Thanks for posting this! I've always wanted to see the AIP cut. I still slightly prefer the Italian cut better though.

Masterpiece

Great film. Thanks for sharing.

i dont think its the gory part that makes the film scary, its more the element of the film and the subject matter for that. plus...it was 1960, things like that were probably seen as way creepier back then as we would think they are now. idk, just givin some ideas hehe

i was five in 1960 and it gave me bad dreams too

Got to see this recently projected onto a 90-inch screen in my backyard! It was simply awesome! Thanks for your comment :)

I used this scene in my Miss dEdmonton application!

Yep, and its likes will never be duplicated, in my opinion...only from the mind of Mario Bava!

I saw it in 1960, 8 yrs. old...scared me !! I had "nightmares"! (( Left an "impression")) I never forgot this one, but I'm a "horror/sci-fi "nut" anyway... DIg em' ! MJ

4:00 is awesome.

But this was the best!!

That whole "mature minds" opening was just a marketing gimmick to sell this low budget film. There were far gorier movies than this at the time

Yeah, and its funny that the message doesn't appear in the international version.

Ow, just ow with that mask. What a way to go. Especially if those spikes didn't enter the brain and kill dem instantly. Yeesh.

haha i luv te beginning lol "only by those persons with mature minds" if they only knew back then of the sort of gore we have today.... ;)

thank you so much for posting this. may be my new favorite movie. i'll have to watch the rest of your movies.

that mask would look so wicked on my bedroom wall!!!

this is amazing...ive been wanting to see this for a really really long time!

I think the dubbing performance, music, and sound mix is so much better here than the international version.

Amazing!!!!

There's two versions I'm privy to--the International cut, and the AIP American edit. TV probably had it's own edit as well, but I'm not sure. "All The Colors of the Dark" probably explains all the details, but I haven't read that entry to this very fine book yet!

There is another dub which (IMO) sounds a bit clearer and the lines are different in places - this was the one that was shown on either TCM or Starz Encore - I think it initially coincided with the 2007 Anchor Bay DVD release. (BTW, that villain chick is hot!)

Wow as I watch this I realize that this is a different dub than the one I have.

SImply fantastic. Thanks!