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Boris Karloff as Gorca in the third & final segment of Black Sabbath

Watercolors on Paper, 8.5" x 11", 2024

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"I tre volti della paura"(Mario Bava, 1963)

Difficile stabilire quale sia il miglior film di Mario Bava. Ognuno dei suoi lavori rappresenta un tassello che compone una filmografia spettacolare che lo renderà il Maestro del cinema horror italiano.

Uno dei suoi lavori che apprezzo in particolar modo è "I tre volti della paura", un film diviso in 3 episodi introdotti dal grandissimo Boris Karloff. Tre episodi differenti tra loro ma tutti validissimi, curati e affascinanti in egual maniera.

"Il telefono", accreditato a Maupassant, in realtà è tratto da un racconto di F.G.Snyder. Episodio thriller che personalmente mi crea ansia ogni volta che lo riguardo.. raffinato, intrigante e claustrofobico. La protagonista, Rosy, riceve durante la notte continue telefonate da parte di un maniaco che le dice che morirà entro l'alba e qualsiasi suo tentativo di salvarsi, sarà inutile, persino chiamare la polizia non servirebbe a nulla, visto che l'assassino sembra essere lì nei dintorni e la sta addirittura spiando. Ma non tutto è come sembra...

Altrettanto interessante l'episodio "I Wurdalak' tratto da un racconto di Tolstoj, un horror gotico ambientato nell'800, dove troviamo una famiglia minacciata dalla presenza dei Wurdalak, vampiri che uccidono coloro che in vita hanno amato di più. Oltre ad introdurre i 3 episodi, Boris Karloff interpreta Gorca, l'anziano padre partito da oltre cinque giorni per dare la caccia ad un Wurdalak, ma egli stesso diventerà uno di loro. Bellissimo episodio, ambientazioni tetre e suggestive, con un uso impeccabile delle luci in perfetto stile baviano.

Il terzo episodio, "La goccia d'acqua" è tratto da un racconto di Cechov.

La protagonista, un' infermiera di nome Helen Chester viene chiamata per vestire il cadavere di una medium deceduta durante una seduta spiritica. L'infermiera, nota che il cadavere indossa un anello e lo ruba. Da quel momento in poi inizieranno a verificarsi fenomeni paranormali che terrorizzeranno Helen. Episodio che nonostante la breve durata riesce a creare un'atmosfera inquietante e spettrale, tra virtuosismi registici, e uso azzeccato del sonoro.

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"Die drei Gesichter der Furcht" ("I tre volti della paura") von Mario Bava

"Das Telefon"

Das Callgirl Rosy (Michèle Mercier) wird zu später Stunde von einem zunächst anonym bleibenden Anrufer terrorisiert, der ihr prophezeit, dass er sie noch in der selben Nacht aus Rache ermorden werde ...

"Wurdalak"

Der Bauer Gorca (Boris Karloff) kehrt nach fünf Tagen zu seiner Familie zurück, nachdem er einen "Wurdalak" (Vampir) getötet hat. Seine Familie begegnet dem in seinem Wesen völlig Veränderten mit Misstrauen. Bald darauf finden sie die Leiche von Gorcas Enkel Iwan ...

"Der Wassertropfen"

Die Krankenschwester Nancy (Jacqueline Pierreux) wird mitten in der Nacht an das Totenbett eines während einer spiritistischen Sitzung plötzlich verstorbenen Mediums gerufen, um die Verstorbene einzukleiden. Nachdem Nancy der alten Frau, deren Miene vor Schrecken entstellt ist, einen wertvollen Ring vom Finger entwendet hat, vernimmt sie unablässig das enervierende Geräusch von tropfendem Wasser ...

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Have you seen the new Nosferatu yet? Who would you rather pick? Orlok or Gorca?

I've only ever seen pictures of new Orlok going around, and I haven't seen the movie yet, but I'm not impressed with his design. I'm not a Bill Skarsgård fan either. The movie looks very promising, I'm just not an Orlok girl.

Ergo, I choose my unkempt wurdulak husband.

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Honorable mention: Black Sabath (I tre volti della paura, 1963)

What is terror? Is it a vampire who drinks the blood of those who loves the most? Or is the shadow of a man coming from your past to get you? Perhaps it's the vengeance of a ghost who haunts those who stole from them? It's a chilly night, perfect to find out.

An anthology by Italian maestro Mario Bava, the three segments it presents are intended to represent terror across different eras. You can certainly say it delivers on this aspect, going from the middle ages to the 60's and ranging from the supernatural to the psychological, all with their own masterfully curated color palette.

Or at least that is the case in the International version: the American cut made drastic changes to one of the segments (namely "The Phone") in order to omit any references to prostitution and lesbianism as well as change the entire nature of the plot.

"The Drop of Water" starred by Jacqueline Pierreux is easily the best of the three (where she displays a delicate balance as a selfish but still humanized amoral nurse), battling against her own guilt and the freakiest image in the whole film. Shout out, however, to the late's Borlis Karloff's role as both the presenter and Gorca in "The Wurdulak". For being so close to the end of his career, the man who gave life to Frankenstein's monster still shows a mastery of his craft that is a sight to behold. Rarely have I seen an actor that could make such a versatile use of his eyes, and till the very end he kept finding new ways to give a chilling stare. As for “The Phone”? Much as there's pathos to the premise, it feels like it could use some more screen time to flesh out the character relationships, which feel a little under cooked and with a fairly predictable twist.

There's no loser among them, however, and while it bombed on release it's gotten its place among the classics. No wonder the heavy metal band Black Sabbath took the name from here.

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BLACK SABBATH (1963)

This is an Italian horror anthology film.  There are three tales of terror:

“The Telephone.”  Rosy, a young woman, is getting threatening phone calls from an ominous person.  They imply that they are Frank, a criminal who has escaped from prison.  He is coming to kill Rosy because her testimony put him in prison!  Rosy calls her old friend (or lover?), Mary, for comfort.  Mary says she’s coming right over, but then we watch as Mary calls Rosy and threatens her life.  Mary is the mysterious phone caller!  Mary promptly arrives at Rosy’s apartment, and she’s acting weird (like, maybe she really is going to kill Rosy) but they go to bed.  Later we see that Mary is up and writing a letter to Rosy, explaining that she made the phone calls, but she only did so to try to rekindle their friendship.  Unfortunately, the real Frank arrives, and he strangles Mary to death with a stocking.  He is moving on Rosy, to kill her, but she stabs him with a knife that Mary earlier placed under the bed.  We focus on the telephone, which caused this entire mess.

This was fine, a “modern” tale at the time.  There’s some nice tension with the phone calls and Rosy’s growing sense of dread, if a slight sense of annoyance that she just doesn’t lock the door and call the police!  It’s not quite explained how Mary manages to call at just the right times, and her plan to reunite with Rosy is insane, but if you just let all that go this is at least as good as most modern “haunted telephone” (or now “haunted internet”) films.

“The Wurdulak.”  A young noble, Vladimir, is riding through the countryside and finds a headless corpse!  He takes it to a nearby house and learns that it is the body of a local bandit, who was also a wurdulak!  Wurdulaks are undead who crave the blood of people they loved in life.  The patriarch of the house, Gorca (played by Boris Karloff), went to kill the bandit, and he told the family that if he did return within five days, then he was probably a wurdulak and they should kill him.  Vladimir meets Gorca’s daughter, Sdenka, and he promptly falls in love with her.  Anywho, Gorca returns, and he’s obviously undead, but they don’t stab him in the heart like they’re supposed to.  Gorca runs off with his grandson, whom he promptly kills.  His daughter-in-law stabs his son, and then he bites his daughter-in-law.  Meanwhile, Vladimir and Sdenka have escaped, but the various wurdulaks catch up with them and fall upon Sdenka.  Vladimir returns to the house and finds Sdenka.  It’s painfully obvious that she’s now undead, but he lets her bite him, for love!

Not really much to say.  This is a typical gothic vampire story.  The family should have stabbed Gorce as soon as he walked in the house (like he advised them to), but then we’d have a different story.  There are some nice effects with colors and “sliding” the characters around.

“The Drop of Water.”  Helen is a nurse.  She is called to a house to prepare the dead body of an old woman for burial, but whilst doing so she steals the corpse’s ring!  She takes the ring home, puts it on, and goes crazy, hearing drops of water and the like.  Eventually, she sees the corpse of the old woman moving about her little apartment, and Helen strangles herself to death.  The next day we see the landlady (I presume) with the cops.  Someone notices that a ring has been removed from Helen’s finger.  The landlady looks shifty and we hear drops of water.

A “haunted object” story.  The dead woman is a freaky mannequin, and when it starts moving about I admit that I was little spooked.  Good job! 

A solid anthology, a little dated in attitude and techniques.  They’re perhaps meant to be taken as silly and strange, as shown by the opening and closing monologues by Boris Karloff.  Or, it’s the use of humor after a fright to relieve the tension of your existence.  You decide.

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ive been up but i took a depression nap for like 2 hours and my dream was weird cuz i was still half awake, there was like a choir and half of me was in their little choir room and the other half was in the ocean and i could see the notes they were singing ?? like floating around and the notes matched orca songs so i was having some trippy ass like. half orca half man moment which was interesting

was interrupted by my dog and thats why im awake now but it was cool, gorca dreams.....

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One of Mario Bava's greatest movie : "I tre volti della paura" (1963) aka "Black Sabbath" aka "Les trois visages de la peur", featuring Boris Karloff as Gorca (the Wurdalak)

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