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prima by Mario Bava and a cornerstone in European horror movie history.
The coming out of a key director in the genre and the birth of a myth,
Barbara Steele, an actress converted thanks to this movie into muse par
excellence of Italian horror. Adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s
short story The Viy, Mask of the Demon is an
extraordinary movie narrating the resurrection of Princess Ada, priestess
of a Satanic cult burned at the stake after a mask with nails on the inside
had been hammered onto her face. Two centuries later, thanks to a few
drops of blood, she’s back and looking for revenge. This elegant,
magnetic and undying movie can be seen in a new copy at San Sebastian. |
