Black Sunday (1960)
Directed by Mario Bava · Cinematography by Mario Bava
Approved87 min51 frames
Horror
STARE INTO THESE EYES...Discover deep within them the unspeakable, terrifying secret of BLACK SUNDAY...It will paralyze you with fright!
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Black Sunday — official trailer
What is Black Sunday about?
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
Where can you watch Black Sunday?
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What does the cinematography of Black Sunday look like?
Sampled across 51 frames, the coverage of Black Sunday leans on medium shots (33% of the sample) and close-ups (33%). Cinematographer Mario Bava keeps 49% of it in hard-edged, chiaroscuro light. Night and dusk account for 88% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 63% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of Black Sunday?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Black Sunday (1960) are #020202, #303030, #939393, #6a6a6a, #cbcbcb, #ffffff — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
#020202#303030#939393#6a6a6a#cbcbcb#ffffff
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