After learning yesterday's film was based on a story also adapted in Mario Bava's Black Sabbath, it made me realize I had never actually seen Black Sabbath - I always get it confused with Black Sunday, which I have seen, albeit a long time ago. Might be due for a re-watch!
Apparently there are different edits of this film, with its three stories presented in different orders. The one I watch started with The Drop of Water, in which a nurse does the one thing she's not supposed to do when preparing a deceased patient for her funeral, and suffers the consequences. It's filled with the colored lighting Bava loved, and a truly memorable corpse.
The second story was The Telephone, and apparently the American version I watched has a very different plot than the Italian version. The Italian version includes a call girl, the pimp she helped imprison, and some implied lesbianism. I want to see that version! Of the three shorts, I liked the set decorations and costumes in this one the most.
Finally, the last story was The Wurdulak, with Boris Karloff taking on the role of the family patriarch returning home with an insatiable hunger for the blood of his loved ones. Of course being only about 30 minutes long means it's a much faster take on the story than yesterday's The Vourdulak, but it doesn't have a corpse puppet. Win some, lose some
Not quite as garish and colorful as other Mario Bava movies, but still very beautiful. The soundtrack by Les Baxter is also pretty groovy. I watched it on Prime.
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