-Hal Raglan 01:26, 10 May 2007 (UTC) Black Sunday remains fresh today because it plausibly presents a world where the difference between heroes and villains is minimal; although Kabokov is the story's nominal good guy, he is cold, obsessive and every bit as capable of amoral behavior as his terrorist prey. And a certain set of films – I think of Network, Black Sunday, All the President’s Men, and Nashville – urgently tried to warn us of what was taking place. The transfer here does sport some minor print damage but otherwise the black and white image looks very nice. Twilight’s Last Gleaming may be the most outlandish of them (well…that or Black Sunday), but it is also the most passionate.
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Black Sunday / The Mask of Satan (1960) Original title: Le maschera del demonio Directed by Mario Bava Based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Viy"… In one of the most original and visually stunning horror films from the ‘˜60s, Black Sunday is truly one of the greatest horror films ever put to screen.
If it is to be renamed, which I agree is probably a good idea, it should be changed to Black Sunday (1960 film), as that is the film's most commonly utilized title in various reference books/periodicals/websites.
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Black Sunday (1977) Starring Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller Directed by John Frankenheimer "Black Sunday is the powerful story of a Black September terrorist group attempting to blow up a Goodyear blimp hovering over Super Bowl stadium with 80,000 people and the President of the United States in attendance." Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960) isn't just a horror film classic, it's one of the all-time greats in any film genre. Buy Black Sunday from Zavvi, the home of pop culture.
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Grain is apparent but not distracting and detail is strong, as is texture. Starting off his career as a production designer, Bava’s greatest attribute is his eye for … Black Sunday is certainly the best football stadium attack movie ever (at least much better than that Charlton Heston flick Two-Minute Warning from a year earlier). About Larry Cohen. And it’s entirely because of Bava.