Black Sabbath. Official Video Featurette/Cover Art/Stills. a.k.a. I Tre Volti Della Paura. The Three Faces of Fear. Official 1st UK Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD 29th April 2013..

Black Sabbath. a.k.a. I Tre Volti Della Paura. The Three Faces of Fear. Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD.

Black Sabbath. Official Restored Version featurette.

Mario Bava is widely credited as the man who kick-started the golden age of Italian horror. Never before had international audiences witnessed such slick, stylised production combined with brutal and supernatural imagery.

Black Sunday was such a huge hit that a follow-up was swiftly demanded, and horror maestro Mario Bava duly devised this three-part horror anthology blending modern and period stories. 

In the giallo-style ‘The Telephone’, a woman is terrorised by her former pimp after his escape from prison, and tries to escape him with the help of her lesbian lover, who has a dark secret of her own. In the Victorian-era ‘The Drop of Water’, a nurse steals a ring from the corpse of a dead spiritualist, which naturally tries to get it back. But it’s the 19th-century Russian story ‘The Wurdalak’ that comes closest to Bava’s earlier classic, with the great Boris Karloff as a much-loved paterfamilias who might not be entirely what he seems.

Bava’s direction is as stylish as ever, and Black Sabbath is almost a compendium of his favourite themes.

Black Sabbath, the film, has had a huge influence on popular culture, not just as a stand-out piece of Italian horror cinema, but as the name-sake of the inventors of heavy metal music. Beginning a life-long allegiance between horror fans and heavy metal enthusiasts, it is said that the 4 original members of the band Black Sabbath then known as Earth, came across the name after seeing horror fans queuing outside their local picture house to see the movie. They then set about trying to create the musical equivalent of what horror fans saw and loved in scary movies.

Special Features:

High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of two versions of the film; ‘I tre volti della paura’ – the European version with score by Roberto Nicolosi & ‘Black Sabbath’ – the re-edited and re-dubbed AIP version with Les Baxter score, on home video for the first time
English SDH subtitles for English Audio and a new English subtitle translation of the Italian audio.
Audio Commentary with Bava biographer and expert Tim Lucas.
Introduction to the film by author and critic Alan Jones.
A Life In Film – An Interview with star Mark Damon.
Three Faces of Black Sabbath – A comparison of the different versions of the film.
International Trailer.
US Trailer.
Italian Trailer.
TV and Radio Spots.
Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic David Cairns and a substantial interview with AIP Producer Samuel Z. Arkoff on his experiences of working with Bava, conducted by Tim Lucas, illustrated with original stills and posters.