'Black Sunday'

Black Sunday refers to a number of things: The death of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, the day the Denver International Airport Automated Guideway Transit System failed, the opening of Disneyland, the day the Colony Shale Oil Project was dissolved, the 1984 Super Bowl, a pair of fires in Australia and a day at Bondi Beach in Australia when a giant wave hit and killed five bathers.

 

In this instance, however, we refer to the 1960 Italian horror film, which was also titled Revenge of the Vampire and The Mask of Satan depending on which country you saw it in.

For a long time, it was heavily censored or banned altogether for its graphic blood and violence. Just shows how numb I am to it all because I just thought I was watching a pretty ordinary horror film of the time.

Except this movie is way creeper and an awesome addition to the “vampire in film” narrative. 

The film is apparently based on Nic Gogol’s story Viy as is the Russian film Vij so it makes me want to read it because neither movie is very much like the other.