Behind your seat might be a Vurdalak-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack…
Don't steal rings from dead mediums.
Don't answer the phone when your dead friend keeps calling.
And if Boris Karloff tells you not to let him in after the bell strikes ten—because he might be an undead Vurdalak—for Pietro's sake… DON'T LET HIM IN.
In Black Sabbath, Mario Bava's stylish 1963 anthology horror classic, these are the lessons Art and Erik learn the chilling way.
This week on Midnight Cinema, we ride through the fog-drenched Russian countryside, creep through crumbling mansions, and drift into the sleek and shadowy apartments of a Technicolor nightmare that left a permanent mark on Erik's childhood—and might just still be able to get under his skin all over again.
A co-production between American International Pictures and Italian studios, this trio of tales delivers everything from corpse-faced apparitions to undead children scratching at the door. And in its bold color design and visual flair, you can see the DNA of films like Suspiria lurking just beneath the surface.
Art and Erik are here to unpack it all—story by story, scare by scare.
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And if you make it through the night without answering that cursed telephone, pocketing jewelry from the wrong corpse, or letting Boris Karloff in after the bell tolls ten… come hang with us for more late-night deep dives into cult classics, gothic nightmares, and all the wonderfully unhinged cinema we adore at midnightcinemapod.com.
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