Black Sunday (1960, Mario Bava)

🧛‍♀️🏰⚰️🧐 Old Italian Mario Bava black and white fare. It’s gothic. It’s influential. It’s poorly dubbed. The value of such a movie in 2023 is more as a historical artifact than as an entertainment product. More for getting a better understanding of the homages in things like the FMV game Immortality, or for marvelling at just how much better everyone’s pocket cell phone is for movie production than expensive late 50s studio equipment, or for grabbing samples to use in trippy EDM or Pink Floyd-style songs, or for falling asleep, because it has that “old timey” lo-fi 50s orchestral palette and distorted radio microphone sound that reminds you of the 13" black-and-white kitchen television you grew up with. (Amazon Prime.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_(1960_film) https://letterboxd.com/jaedia/film/black-sunday-1960/