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Italian director Mario Bava exploded onto the scare scene with the extraordinary sad and white film “Gloomy Sunday,” also known as “The Veil of Satan” (a title I capture because it does such a better job describing the movie) . This relate borrows heavily from a Nikolai Gogol short chronicle called “The Vij,” and while I am not familiar with the chronicle, the movie succeeds fantastically at conveying a bleak atmosphere of apprehension. “The Conceal of Satan” was Bava’s official directorial debut, giving viewers a chance to behold the genius that was to arrive from this apt filmmaker. Bava didn’t merely philosophize films, however. He also worked on all aspects of movie making during his long career. The director even helped his son carve his teeth in the business immediately before his death in 1980. Fans will miss Bava terribly after viewing fair a few of his films, as he was one of those rare Italian scare directors who could truly thunder the goods.
“Murky Sunday,” station in Romania, opens at an unspecified date in the seventeenth century. Some of the local nobles choose to collect 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 absorb is on the spit. The fair Princess Asa Vajda fell under the rank spell of the sad 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 beget brother orders a metal cover of Satan nailed to their faces. Unfortunately for the Vajda family, Asa casts a curse on the family immediately before her execution, promising to reach serve from the slow and plague her relatives throughout the centuries. After carrying out this sordid task, the people note 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 defective must be placed on the sarcophagus in order to preserve 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 kill 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 pain to it. From this point on, Bava takes his viewers on a roller coaster promenade of creepy imagery, walking corpses, vampiric transformations, and oppressive atmosphere rarely seen in even the best of dismay films. As the terror of “The Hide of Satan” unfolds, we meet the various characters who will play inspect to the resuscitated curse on the House of Vajda: Doctor Gorobec, the young, bold companion of Kruvajan destined to set aside the day; Katia Vajda, the expose princess of Vajda; and her frightened father and brother. Katia’s father knows about the curse of Asa, and he spends a vital fragment of his time worrying about it. Moreover, several people insist on the fabulous resemblance between Asa and Katia Vajda as seen in an worn 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 apprehension films influenced “The Conceal of Satan” is so determined it really doesn’t need mentioning in the editorial review on this dwelling. 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 sharp through the forest in complete silence, or the bound Javutich and the doctor bewitch through the castle. These are helpful effects accomplished without the back of CGI or worship prosthetics. Additionally, every movement of each character seems choreographed for maximum creepy achieve. I kept wondering how Bava managed to fetch his actors to recede so SLOWLY while making it gape 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 anxiety fans and say that this woman is tumble wearisome exquisite, but she is dazzling and the make-up effects musty 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 Camouflage of Satan” a classic feel correct from the commence.
The DVD version of the film I watched carries a “Special Edition” stamp, meaning that you accumulate 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 trustworthy thing when you determine to ogle a fright movie. Mario Bava went on to manufacture 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 correct around the corner, this film would nicely fit the bill for a home scare movie marathon.
Actually, my rating for this DVD version of “Murky 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 mountainous 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 traditional for this disc: it looks, almost literally, like it was shot yesterday, and it’s almost impossible to beget the film is almost 40 years outmoded. If there are other films from this era that peep 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 ample inquire of (which neither Tim Lucas nor anyone else seems to have raised) is this: WHERE is the unusual Italian-language version of “Shadowy Sunday,” and why wasn’t an attempt made to give us the unique dialogue with OPTIONAL English subtitles? Mr. Lucas would have us fill that this DVD was the new 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 blooming print, but hopefully in the future we’ll glean the new Italian dialogue and not have to endure the bad dubbing…