I Tre Volti Della Paura (1963)
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(1) "Il Telefono" - Rosy receives many phone calls threatening her. She believes her former lover, who has just escaped from prison, is calling her. She denounced him for a crime committed time ago and he was convicted. She calls her girlfriend Mary to stay with her. A secret is revealed and a tragedy happens in the end. (2) "I Wurdulak" - Vladimire d'Urfe, a young man, is riding a horse at night and finds a man with a knife in his back. He withdraws the dagger from the man and finds a house close to the place where he found the body. There, he meets a family composed of two brothers, one sister, one sister-in-law and one nephew, and he falls in love at first sight with the beautiful Sdenka. He realizes that the dead man was a criminal, probably killed by the head of the family Gorca, and he is advised to leave that place, before Gorca arrives back at midnight. The family informs him that there is a chance that Gorca might have been transformed in a Wurdulak, a kind of vampire who drains blood from the living persons. A few seconds after midnight, Gorca comes back home, and the afraid family does not know whether he was transformed or not. The family discovers later what happened in a tragic way. (3)"La Goccia d' Acqua"- Helen Chester is called to prepare the body of a countess for her funeral. She steals the worthy ring from her finger. The countess comes back from beyond to retrieve her ring, terrifying the frightened woman.
Movie Tagline:
This is the night of the nightmare...The day of the Undead.
Also Known As:
Black Sabbath
Title: I Tre Volti Della Paura Release Date: May 06, 1964
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Horror All Genres: Horror Languages: Italian Country: Italy, France, USA Colors: Color Sound: Mono IMDB Rating: 7.3 Buried.com Rating: 8.3 - (Rate This Horror Movie at Buried.com) Category: Horror Movies Starting With I
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Director(s):
Mario Bava
Salvatore Billitteri
Cast:
Michele Mercier ...Rosy (segment The Telephone)
Lidia Alfonsi ...Mary (segment The Telephone) (as Lydia Alfonsi)
Boris Karloff ...Himself / Gorca (segment The Wurdalak)
Mark Damon ...Vladimire d'Urfe (segment The Wurdalak)
Susy Andersen ...Sdenka (segment The Wurdalak)
Massimo Righi ...Pietro (segment The Wurdalak)
Rika Dialina ...Maria (segment The Wurdalak) (as Rica Dialina)
Glauco Onorato ...Giorgio (segment The Wurdalak)
Jacqueline Pierreux ...Helen Chester (segment The Drop of Water)
Milly ...The Maid (segment The Drop of Water) (as Milly...
Harriet Medin ...Neighbor (segment The Drop of Water)
Gustavo De Nardo ...Police Inspector (segment The Drop of Water)
Milo Quesada ...Frank Rainer (segment The Telephone)
Alessandro Tedeschi ...Coroner (segment The Drop of Water)
Remaining Cast:
Producer(s):
Salvatore Billitteri
Paolo Mercuri
Writer(s):
Mario Bava
Alberto Bevilacqua
Ivan Chekhov
Marcello Fondato
F.G. Snyder
Aleksei Tolstoy
Composer(s):
Les Baxter
Roberto Nicolosi
More Movie Taglines:
- This is the night of the nightmare...The day of the Undead.
- A story that goes beyond the boundaries of the Supernatural to the half-world of the living dead. Where a woman's soul inhabits a fly's body, where Vengeance is only a voice and where vampires suck only the blood of those they love dearest.
- This is the night of the nightmare...
- ...The most gruesome day in the calendar of the Undead!
- The most gruesome day in the calendar!
- Not Since 'FRANKENSTEIN' Have You Seen Such Horror!
- A story that goes beyond the boundaries of the Supernatural to the half-world of the living dead... Where a woman's soul inhabits a fly's body... where vampires suck only the blood of those they love dearest.
Movie Quote(s):
- Mary: [to Rosy] You have no reason to be afraid.
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Movie Trivia:
- Boris Karloff came onto the production because he was under contract with American International Pictures who were interested in doing another picture with Mario Bava.
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The films title was a homage to 'Black Sunday' the previous film that Mario Bava had made for AIP. The success of that picture made the distributors select a title that was similar to that of the earlier Bava hit.
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The segment 'The Telephone' was the first Italian thriller to be shot in color.
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Director Mario Bava's father, Eugenio Bava, created and sculpted the head for the ghost in 'The Drop of Water' as well as the served head for the segment 'The Wurdalak.'
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There were additional scenes filmed with Boris Karloff introducing the segments, however AIP decided they were unnecessary and cut them from the film. Karloff would later say these introductions were some of the most fun he'd ever had on a film set.
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Keywords:
Nurse, Vampire, Corpse, Medium, Escaped Prisoner ...[more]
Keywords All:
Ring, Homosexual Subtext, Phone Terror, Lesbian Subtext, Strangulation, Theft, Ghost, Stalker, Anthology, Film Making, Rural, Murder Of Family, Destiny, Russia, Murder, Fly, Child Vampire, Dog, Severed Head, Ruins, Stabbing, Vurdalak, Dog Killed, Nobility, Beautiful Woman, Based On Novel

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