The film was banned for several years in the United Kingdom and did not receive a wide release there until July 1968, when it was released by Border Films as Revenge of the Vampire.
The film found greater success upon its American release in 1961 when it became the highest-grossing film to be released by AIP in its first five years of existence. Nicholson of American International Pictures (AIP), who oversaw numerous alterations to the film prior to its American release, including the removal of some scenes of violence and sexuality, redubbing the dialogue, and replacing Roberto Nicolosi's musical score with one by Les Baxter. It was acquired for distribution in the United States by Samuel Z. Filming took place in the studios of Scalera Film in Rome and on location at Castle Massimo in Arsoli shooting was complicated by Bava's frequent reworking of the script and Steele's conflicts with the crew.īlack Sunday had limited financial success upon its initial Italian release. Former Rank Organisation contract players Steele and Richardson were cast as Bava felt that British leads would allow the film to compare favorably to Dracula. After he developed a four-page outline faithfully based on Gogol's story, several other screenwriters, both credited and uncredited, worked on the script. Having provided cinematography on Hercules (1958) and Hercules Unchained (1959) for the production company Galatea and helping finish two of their other films, Caltiki – The Immortal Monster (1959) and The Giant of Marathon (1959), Bava was permitted by the company's president, Lionello Santi, to make a film for foreign markets he chose to make a horror film to capitalize on the recent success of Terence Fisher's version of Dracula (1958) for Hammer Film Productions. Loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's short story " Viy", the film takes place in Moldavia and tells the story of a witch who is put to death by her brother, only to return two centuries later to seek revenge upon his descendants. And then you've turned your sexy, cute Barbie into a creepy, scary, broken doll.Black Sunday ( Italian: La maschera del demonio, lit.'The mask of the demon') is a 1960 Italian gothic horror film directed by Mario Bava in his official directorial debut, and starring Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani, Arturo Dominici and Enrico Oliveri. We're going to smudge it out a little bit.įinally, when that's blended out a little bit, we're going to go in with a black cream pencil thickly and just blend the rest. The very, very final step, we're going to go onto the lip, and we're going to darken it with a black pencil. This is just going to go above the black line that we made on the brows. We're going to go over that with a dark brown eye shadow. Just to give it more of a defined edge, and also round it out. Also, again, using the black, I'm going to darken the brow a little bit. We're just going to make her eyes look slightly larger. We're going to do little semi-circles right under the bottom lids in the white. Then fade it to the ends.Īfter that, we're going to take more black onto the brush. Then you kind of want to go thicker, slightly towards the center.
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