Black Sabbath (1963)

Directed by Mario Bava · Cinematography by Ubaldo Terzano

Approved97 min60 frames

Horror

A story that goes beyond the boundaries of the Supernatural to the half-world of the living dead...Where a woman's soul inhabits a fly's body...Where vampires suck only the blood of those they love dearest.

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Black Sabbath (1963) movie still: medium — A dark stone cellar features arched doorways and scattered dry vines against the walls. A woman in a red… — Black Sabbath (1963) — © Emmepi Cinematografica, Galatea Film

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What is Black Sabbath about?

Three tales of supernatural horror include a woman plagued by threatening phone calls, a family targeted by vampiric monsters, and a deceased medium who wreaks havoc upon the living.

Black Sabbath is a 1963 horror anthology film directed by Mario Bava. The film consists of three separate tales that are introduced by Boris Karloff. The order in which the stories are presented varies among the different versions in which the film has been released. In the original, Italian print, the first story, titled "The Telephone", involves Rosy who continually receives threatening telephone calls from an unseen stalker. The second is "The Wurdulak", where a man named Gorca (Karloff) returns to his family after claiming to have slain a Wurdulak, an undead creature who attacks those that it had once loved. The third story, "The Drop of Water", is centered on Helen Corey, a nurse who steals a valuable ring from a corpse that is being prepared for burial and finds herself haunted by the ring's original owner after arriving home.

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What does the cinematography of Black Sabbath look like?

Sampled across 60 frames, the coverage of Black Sabbath leans on medium shots (37% of the sample) and close-ups (33%). Cinematographer Ubaldo Terzano keeps 80% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 88% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 73% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Black Sabbath (1963) are #0f0c0c, #281914, #4c352c, #332e2c, #0f122a, #564e49 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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