#Asa Vajda

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Barbara Steele in Black Sunday (1960) Dir.  Mario Bava

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So last night I was browsing through the streaming service Shudder and I saw that they had the 1960 Italian horror Black Sunday which I've been wanting to see for a long time, mainly because of how much I've always loved it's poster lol ( ). Well I loved it and just had to draw Barbara Steele as Asa. If you've never heard of the film and are wondering why she has holes on her face, it's because in the opening scene she's sentenced to death for evil sorcery and has a mask with metal spikes on the inside hammered onto her face. Yeah...I was shocked something so brutal happened in a 60s horror film lol (then again this is the same year France gave us Eyes Without a Face which featured a disturbing face transplant scene so....shrug). 

Also I looked up what other horror films came out in 1960 and I saw this, Eyes Without a Face, Psycho and Peeping Tom. Damn, something must've been in the water that year to make so many great horror films come out in the same year.

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Bloody Wedding on The Horizon

The date for the wedding of Asa of the House of Vidja and Malenka Walbrooke has finally been set. The nosferatu couple announced via Walbrooke's twitter.

The announcement of a wedding between two of Europe's most infamous vampires comes as a surprise to many in the general public. Walbrooke, a social media influencer broke the news of her engagement to Moldavian princess and recluse Asa Vidja this morning.

No word has come from the princess's twitter, but that should come as no surprise as she hasn't used it since she first created her account. New York Journalists have been in contact with her public relations team have confirmed that the wedding is reall. It will begin when the sun sets on Walpurgisnacht, but a venue has yet to be determined. Likely out of the lack of major satanic temples in the continent.

The relationship between the pair has however been a matter of public debate among followers of Walbrooke who was believed to send contridictory incoded messages in her TikTok videos.

Vidja's public relations team says that an official guest list will be released later this week. I'm sure our eagle eyed readers will come to find some of their favorite celebrities listed.

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where selene from underworld?

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HORROR GIF MEME | FAVORITE WITCH Asa Vajda in La maschera del demonio / Black Sunday (1960)

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Black Sunday (1960)

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Vampire Digital Trading Cards!

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La maschera del demonio (Mario Bava, 1960).

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gothic horror women

• the cabinet of dr. caligari/jane (1920)

• nosferatu/ellen hutter (1922)

• dracula/mina seward (1931)

• the black cat/joan alison (1934)

• rebecca/ mrs. de winter (1940)

• phantom of the opera/christine daae (1943)

• gaslight/paula alquist (1944)

• the uninvited/ pamela fitzgerald (1944)

• dragonwyck/miranda wells (1946)

• the brides of dracula/marianne danielle (1960)

• the fall of the house of usher/madeline usher (1960)

• black sunday/asa vajda (1960)

• the innocents/miss giddens (1961)

• the pit and the pendulum/elizabeth (1961)

• the whip and the body/nevenka (1963)

• the tomb of ligeia/rowena trevanion (1964)

• bram stoker’s dracula/mina harker (1992)

• sleepy hollow/katrina van tassel (1999)

• crimson peak/edith cushing (2015)

• the lodgers/rachel (2017)

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Cosplay the Classics: Barbara Steele as Asa/Katia Vajda in Black Sunday (1960)

Sometimes October flies by and you’re left with very little time to put together an appropriately ghoulish look for the big night: Halloween! But, with a little construction paper, colored pencils, safety pins, and a black sheet… you too can closet cosplay Barbara Steele in her dual role of Asa and Katia Vajda in the Italian horror classic Black Sunday / La maschera del demonio (1960).

I personally adore this movie, and its source material, so hopefully, when I have some more time to spare, I’d love to give it a full write up. Maybe a Gogol on film series???

Anyways, Happy Halloween!

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Mario Bava’s masterpiece “La maschera del Demonio” (1960) aka “Black Sunday”, based on a tale by Nikolaï Gogol, featuring Barbara Steele as Katia/Asa Vajda.

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Melenka and Asa's Wedding List Release

by J. Griss

Many readers of our publication have been closely following the news of Asa Vajda and Melenka Walbrooke's upcoming wedding. Both on Walbrooke's social media and through our news updates.

We also would like to announce that a venue for the wedding has now been confirmed. All eyes will be on Manhattan as the Temple of Satan has extended a welcome to the happy couple to their Madison Square Temple.

On the guest list is a rogue's gallery of the usual faces haunting the film and entertainment industry. Along with a few hob knobs from the political realm. This is a royal wedding, after a fashion. Even if the Moldavian princess has held an empty post for centuries.

Currently, The List consists of:

Bollywood heartthrob, Sahid Kapoor appears on the list and has made comments saying that he wishes to attend.

Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is also on the list, although the reclusive nosferatu hasn't been very public since he first turned in 1938.

Retired detective and descendant of Sherlock Holmes, Charlotte Holmes, and her paramour Jamie Watson are noted on the list as well.

There's also the usual string of actors, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, and Reggie Franklin also appearing on the list.

As for the politicians: Mayor Frank Berkowitz of Metropolis is slated to make an appearance; New Orleans Mayor, Doug Hamilton; and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will be appearing (though it is notable that her fellow senator, Chuck Schumer is absent from the list).

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Top 10 Villains of Horrortober

Best Villains I have seen in the horror movies I watched in october

10.Officer Matt Cordell from Maniac Cop (!988)

His motivations make no sense ,but he is a solid slasher villain

9.Dr Mirakle from Murders in the Rue Morgue (!932)

Bela Lugosi shines here as a mad scientist trying to mix man and ape together

8.The Horla from Diary of a Madman (1963)

A pure evil invisible entity voiced by John Ruskin that posesses Vincent Price.Very underrated in my oppinion

7.Asa Vajda from Black Sunday (!960)

A undead vampiric witch out for revenge on the descendents who wronged her , Barbara Steele just gives such a creepy performance

6.Kurt Menlif from the Whip and the Body (1963)

Christopher Lee as the family jerk ,who is mudered and his spirit is out for revenge

5.Belial from Basket Case (!982)

I had to include this murderous living lump

4.Ivan Igor from Mystery of the Was Museum (1933)

Igor is a burnt mad artist.Lionel Atwill delivers a truly unhinged performance

3.Sadako from Ringu (!988)

Murderous psychic ghost.That final scene scared the shit out of me ,had to include her

2.Dracula from Dracula Prince of Darkness (!966)

One of my favorite horror villains any way ,this films feral mute take on the Count is truly scary

1.Coffin Joe from At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1963)

I dont know if I have seen a horror villain who is THIS much of an asshole

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Creating Asa Vajda and her two dogs for the #BumpkinBazaar was such a joy that I decided to build her old castle. I used a wonderful forest lot in Windenburg, and for a first try at building a castle, I’m quite happy. As always, I tried to tell a story through the build, and I hope you enjoy it. There’s no cc, but do put bb.moveobjects on before downloading it. You can also download Asa’s household in my gallery.

You can download it on The Sims 4 gallery.

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The Art of the Hex: The Witch in the Movies.

The concept of witch arises in the Babylonian culture to refer to the woman who practices a “black magic” contrary to institutionalized religious precepts, a crime that in the Code of Hammurabi was punished by throwing the guilty into the river (Hormigos Vaquero: 2007,477 ). The image of women flying, with powers that transform people into animals, causing them physical damage or tremendous pain have haunted the witches.

In the cinema, the figure of the witch is an inexhaustible topic, it has several facets: the sensual and attractive sorceress who seduces, with her beauty, embodies the young Circe who in the Odyssey dupes Odysseus and transforms her companions into pigs .

The witch is powerful in that she combines charm and knowledge, establishes contact with the devil through orgies and rituals, and sometimes becomes his priestess, as can be seen in films such as Witchcraft Through Ages (Haxan) or The Undead. The other facet is to present her with a horrible appearance, rejected and feared for the excessive use of her knowledge and tendency for destruction.

In Argento's filmography we find Suspiria, which is part of a trilogy that the director himself put together from his literary influence, especially Thomas de Quincey's story about three mothers, Mater Lachrymarum (Tears), Mater Suspiriorum (Sighs) and Mater Tenebrarum (Darkness).

Like the Fates, in Greek mythology there are three sisters: Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. The first grants the threads of each person's life; the second, intertwine the threads and decide how long the thread of each person's life will be; finally, the third is in charge of cutting the thread and, thereby, ending the person's existence.

Suspiria is a mysterious breath of life, all the tectonic power embodied in a female being that is nourished by the young energy of the students of an academy that is the heart of Suspiria the destructive mother. Its hidden existence as a dangerous shadow veils the dream of the young women. Suspiria is an evil witch, a demonic entity.

In Black Sunday Barbara Steele plays a sorceress named Asa Vajda who seems to harbor not a drop of humanity inside her when she returns 200 years after her death to wreak havoc on her execrable brother's family. It also presents itself as the enemy of good, of the order established by patriarchal institutions that undermine by all means the development of dissatisfied women and the propagation of their ideas.

Always fought through violent actions and methods, let us remember the scene where the mask is nailed at the point of mallets. Currently, productions such as The Lords of Salem or Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi demonstrate once again the renewed validity of the witch on the screen.