Black Sunday / Lisa and the Devil - 2-DVD Set ( La maschera del demonio / Lisa e il diavolo ) ( The Mask of Satan / The House of Exorcism )

Black Sunday / Lisa and the Devil - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La maschera del demonio / Lisa e il diavolo
Alternate Title: The Mask of Satan / The House of Exorcism
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
178 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1960 - 1974 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Mario Bava
Alfredo Leone

Written By:
Ennio De Concini
Mario Serandrei
Mario Bava
Alfredo Leone

Actors:
Barbara Steele ..... Katia Vajda /
Princess Asa Vajda ..... Dr. Andre Gorobec
John Richardson ..... Dr. Thomas Kruvajan
Andrea Checchi ..... Prince Vajda
Ivo Garrani ..... Igor Javutich / Javuto
Arturo Dominici ..... Prince Constantine Vajda
Enrico Olivieri ..... Priest
Antonio Pierfederici ..... Ivan
Tino Bianchi ..... Inn Keeper
Clara Bindi ..... Nikita, the Coachman
Mario Passante ..... Boris
Renato Terra ..... Sonya, the Innkeeper's Daughter
Germana Dominici
Telly Savalas ..... Leandro
Elke Sommer ..... Lisa Reiner
Sylva Koscina ..... Sophia Lehar
Alessio Orano ..... Max
Gabriele Tinti ..... George (the chauffeur)
Kathy Leone ..... Lisa's friend
Eduardo Fajardo ..... Francis Lehar
Franz von Treuberg ..... Shopkeeper
Espartaco Santoni ..... Carlo
Alida Valli ..... Countess
Robert Alda ..... Father Michael (scenes deleted)
Carmen Silva ..... Anna (scenes deleted)

Synopsis:

Black Sunday (1960)
A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant. Only the girl's brother and a handsome doctor stand in her way.

Lisa and the Devil (1974)
Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon she is sucked into a vortex of deception, debauchery and evil presided over by housekeeper Leandre.

Black Sunday (1960)
Generally considered to be the foremost example of Italian Gothic horror, this darkly atmospheric black-and-white chiller put director Mario Bava on the international map and made the bewitching Barbara Steele a star. Steele plays Princess Asa, a high priestess of Satan who is gruesomely executed in 1600s Moldavia by having a spiked mask hammered into her face. Before she dies, Asa vows revenge on the family who killed her and returns from the grave two centuries later to keep her promise. In a striking resurrection scene replete with bats, scorpions and fog, Asa rises from the tomb to claim her bloody vengeance. With vampires, bubbling flesh, dank crypts, undead servants and torch-bearing mobs, the plot is a little ripe, but the visuals are Bava's primary consideration. The atmosphere is so heavy and the imagery so dense that the film becomes nearly too rich in texture, but the sheer, ghastly beauty of it all is entrancing. Although this was only the second of Bava's twenty-six films as director, it is undoubtedly his best and the one upon which most of his considerable reputation rests.

Lisa and the Devil (1974)
Elke Sommer (Baron Blood) stars as Lisa, a young woman who finds herself lost in a large and imposing European city. Unable to find her way, she runs across a rich man (Eduardo Fajardo), his wife (Sylva Coscina) and their chauffeur (Gabriele Tinti). This unhappy trio (the wife, Sophia is having an affair with the chauffeur, George-and the husband knows it) offer Lisa a ride-which she willingly accepts. However, their car breaks down in front of a desolate old mansion-a house where a blind countess (Alida Valli) lives with her mentally disturbed son Max (Alessio Orano), and a manservant with a penchant for making mannequins who just may be Satan himself (Telly Savalas). During the night, Lisa will find herself trapped in a weird, dreamlike world while a series of vicious murders are committed around her. It seems that this isolated country house is haunted-not only by the ghosts of former tenants murdered in jealous rage, but also by a malignant madness itself.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 17 December, 2012.

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