Mario Bava's career is easily defined by Black Sunday but besides the former as well countless other films is his anthology masterpiece: Black Sabbath.
The 1963 film consists of three short stories hosted by none other than horror icon Boris Karloff. The first is about a woman, whom receives a phone call and quickly we learn that she's being watched and tormented by her caller. Similar to an offbeat sexual giallo, it's good, but the least impressive of the three shorts.
The second story is of a woman who pries a ring off a cold corpse and slowly becomes tormented throughout the night to meet karma come around tenfold. It begins and ends with a drip of water with some extremely creepy atmosphere in between, this short is incredibly lit with color, and shouldn't be overlooked.
The final short is by far the best of the three. Boris Karloff plays an avenging villager who leaves his family to hunt the local 'Wurdalak.' He tells his family that if he does not return within three days then he must be refused entry to their home. When he returns home he is no longer one of the living...with a Hammer Studio Dracula era feel, this short could have easily been a feature.
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