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Italian director Mario Bava exploded onto the dread scene with the incredible shadowy and white film “Dismal Sunday,” also known as “The Cloak of Satan” (a title I catch because it does such a better job describing the movie) . This report borrows heavily from a Nikolai Gogol short epic called “The Vij,” and while I am not familiar with the chronicle, the movie succeeds fantastically at conveying a bleak atmosphere of terror. “The Conceal of Satan” was Bava’s official directorial debut, giving viewers a chance to sight the genius that was to near from this friendly filmmaker. Bava didn’t merely assert films, however. He also worked on all aspects of movie making during his long career. The director even helped his son cleave his teeth in the business immediately before his death in 1980. Fans will miss Bava terribly after viewing honest a few of his films, as he was one of those rare Italian dread directors who could truly issue the goods.
“Shadowy Sunday,” region in Romania, opens at an unspecified date in the seventeenth century. Some of the local nobles resolve to net together and roast a couple of Satan’s followers, but this barbecue bears a special meaning for the House of Vajda because one of its maintain is on the spit. The radiant Princess Asa Vajda fell under the horrible spell of the shaded one, along with her unseemly lover Javutich, and both now face a painful execution. In order to insure that these two sullied creatures wear the stamp of their crimes, Asa’s gain brother orders a metal veil of Satan nailed to their faces. Unfortunately for the Vajda family, Asa casts a curse on the family immediately before her execution, promising to advance encourage from the tedious and plague her relatives throughout the centuries. After carrying out this sordid task, the people show attempt to burn the corpses, but a rainstorm conveniently whips up and prevents the destruction of the bodies of these two satanic worshippers. In order to rid themselves of the bodies, the House of Vajda orders Asa interred in the family crypt with a few conditions: a glass pane and a depraved must be placed on the sarcophagus in order to sustain Asa firmly in her coffin. Javutich’s corpse doesn’t fare as well; his body ends up in a grave in the cemetery. All’s well that end’s well after this incident, as Asa and Javutich end away the centuries in their tombs.
Flash forward two hundred years. Two doctors traveling to a medical conference stumble upon the decaying Vajda crypt. In a fit of scientific defiance to peasant tradition, one of the doctors named Kruvajan bumbles around Asa’s coffin and causes some injure to it. From this point on, Bava takes his viewers on a roller coaster pace of creepy imagery, walking corpses, vampiric transformations, and oppressive atmosphere rarely seen in even the best of alarm films. As the terror of “The Screen of Satan” unfolds, we meet the various characters who will play observe to the resuscitated curse on the House of Vajda: Doctor Gorobec, the young, doughty companion of Kruvajan destined to attach the day; Katia Vajda, the expose princess of Vajda; and her vexed father and brother. Katia’s father knows about the curse of Asa, and he spends a critical share of his time worrying about it. Moreover, several people teach on the astounding resemblance between Asa and Katia Vajda as seen in an faded portrait of the Satan worshipping princess. Does this similarity have anything to do with the Asa’s seemingly renewed deathbed curse? Probably, and the fun comes from watching it unfold through Bava’s masterful spend of cinematography, sets, atmosphere, sound effects, and grisly special effects.
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That Universal alarm films influenced “The Cloak of Satan” is so distinct it really doesn’t need mentioning in the editorial review on this plot. Throughout the movie, I continually recognized these similarities. Perhaps the surprising revelation here is that Bava’s film is markedly better than many of the influences he supposedly borrowed from. Check out the coach exciting through the forest in complete silence, or the slip Javutich and the doctor capture through the castle. These are safe effects accomplished without the succor of CGI or like prosthetics. Additionally, every movement of each character seems choreographed for maximum creepy do. I kept wondering how Bava managed to collect his actors to fade so SLOWLY while making it leer so natural. Special mention goes to the eerily effective Barbara Steele, the actress who plays both Asa and Katia. I wouldn’t go as far as a few panic fans and say that this woman is plunge insensible stunning, but she is glorious and the make-up effects extinct on her face give her a ultra creepy appearance when she is playing Asa. I could go on and on about the things I liked in this movie. Everything works masterfully, giving “The Conceal of Satan” a classic feel honest from the open.
The DVD version of the film I watched carries a “Special Edition” heed, meaning that you gather a Mario Bava biography and filmography, a trailer, a photo and poster gallery, and a commentary by Bava historian Tim Lucas. The package claims this is the uncut version of the film, always a suited thing when you resolve to explore a anxiety movie. Mario Bava went on to invent a slew of films in a wide range of genres, but so far “The Screen of Satan” has been my most satisfying experience with this director. With Halloween good around the corner, this film would nicely fit the bill for a home awe movie marathon.
Actually, my rating for this DVD version of “Shadowy Sunday” would be 5 stars for the video transfer, 5 stars for Bava’s cinematography (seen here like never before), 2 stars for the audio transfer, and 3 stars for the overall quality of the film itself. Bava was not a grand director, and didn’t like to be called a “cinematographer,” but this film really is a painting in motion: every scene is a paradigm of Gothicism — the cinematic equivalent of Gustave Dore. Like other
reviewers, I was floored by the print weak for this disc: it looks, almost literally, like it was shot yesterday, and it’s almost impossible to enjoy the film is almost 40 years ancient. If there are other films from this era that see this pristine, I haven’t seen them. My only quarrel with the disc has to do with the dubbing. In all honesty, I feel this film sports one of the worst American dubbing jobs ever performed on a film, and the broad expect (which neither Tim Lucas nor anyone else seems to have raised) is this: WHERE is the unusual Italian-language version of “Shaded Sunday,” and why wasn’t an attempt made to give us the novel dialogue with OPTIONAL English subtitles? Mr. Lucas would have us beget that this DVD was the recent version, but obviously the entire cast is speaking Italian (duhhh – why else would you have to dub in English? ) . So, yes, I’m thrilled to have this exquisite print, but hopefully in the future we’ll gather the novel Italian dialogue and not have to endure the bad dubbing…
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