Black Sabbath

Even with Boris Karloff providing a lighthearted introduction and sign-off, Black Sabbath is fraught with fatalism. Read full review

This is easily one of Bava's crowning achievements as a filmmaker and one of the greatest horror anthologies ever filmed. Read full review

Black Sabbath speaks to the vastness of Bava’s abilities in the realms of the terrifying and the supernatural. Read full review

Three solid and scary tales of terror from the undisputed master of Italian horror, Mario Bava. Read full review

There's a little bit of everything in Bava's best-known film, the three-part anthology Black Sabbath. Read full review

Pictorially it's amazing, and even the script and dubbing are way above average. Read full review

Back when anthology TV shows such as The Twilight Zone and Thriller were in their heyday, the movies, too, entertained a spate of horror/supernatural multistory features that fans still regard with affection. Director Mario Bava, whose earlier single-story satanic yarn Black Sunday picked up a wide following, turned Sabbath into one of the best. [11 Aug 2000, 8E]

Three tales of expertly building suspense. [10 Jul 2013, Issue#1268]