She Died Angry and Things Have Not Improved
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She Died Angry and Things Have Not Improved
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In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obie Knox travels to 17th-century Moldavia for Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (1960), a gorgeous Gothic nightmare that begins with one of the more memorable executions in horror history. Barbara Steele stars as Princess Asa Vajda, a witch condemned to death by her own brother and fitted with a particularly unpleasant spiked mask before promising revenge on his descendants. Two centuries later, an unfortunate encounter with her tomb sets that revenge in motion, placing the innocent Katia Vajda—also played by Steele—directly in Asa’s path.
Obie digs into Bava’s remarkable feature directorial debut, from its shadowy black-and-white photography and decaying castles to the eerie atmosphere that helped establish him as one of Italian horror’s defining filmmakers. Along the way, we look at Steele’s unforgettable dual performance, Asa’s impressively long commitment to holding a grudge, and a story filled with crypts, vampires, family curses, forbidden tombs, and people who really should learn to leave ancient corpses alone.
It’s beautiful, macabre, atmospheric, and unmistakably Bava. After two hundred years underground, Asa is back—and death has done absolutely nothing to improve her disposition.
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