Oct 31st
Black Sunday**
aka: Mask of the Demon                     

 Barbara Steele in her most famous horror role. If looks could kill....

(Ita 1960)

A 17th century vampire witch is executed but two centuries later tries to invest the soul of her descendant.
For Halloween, one of the best of the Italian horror cycle for lurid Gothic atmosphere, taking the elements of Hammer and adding a little extra grisly detail, and though crassness and an overbearing score is added to the American International version of the film (under its shorter title), its success overseas set the director on a path of more cult horrors to come.

Written by: Mario Serandrei, Ennido De Concini, from a story by Nikolai Gogol.
Producer: Massimo De Rita.
Director/Photography: Mario Bava.
Starring: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrew Checchi, Ivo Garrani, Arturo Dominici, Enrico Olivieri, Antonio PIerfederici, Germana Dominici.
Music: Roberto Nicolosi, Les Baxter (US version).
Production Design: Giorgio Giovannini.

Preceded by:
Tom & Jerry in
The Invisible Mouse**
(US 1947. 8m.; d: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera; p: Fred Quimby.)