The Mario Bava Collection: Limited Deluxe Edition (GRUV Exclusive)

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Black Sunday: In 17th-century Moldavia, the evil Princess Asa is condemned to death for witchcraft and vampirism, along with her brother Prince Igor Javutich. Two hundred years later, two doctors discover her crypt and accidentally set her resurrection in motion! With the help of Javutich and others whom she enthralls with her cold, dead kiss, Asa sets her sights on her ultimate victim: Princess Katia, her own doppelganger descendant! In 1960, Mario Bava made his directorial feature debut with La maschera del demonio (The Mask of Satan), a film that achieved worldwide commercial and critical success under its better-known title…Black Sunday. The Girl Who Knew Too Much: Nora Davis (Letícia Román) jets away to Rome to vacation with Edith, an old family friend. Unfortunately, her trip is anything but relaxing. On the first night, Edith dies—and as Nora runs into the night for help, she becomes an eyewitness to a murder as she sees a woman stabbed to death on the Piazza di Spagna. Being a young woman with an insatiable appetite for murder mysteries, Nora can't get anyone to believe her story, but with the help of the attentive Dr. Marcello Bassi (John Saxon), she learns that a murder did occur on that very spot—10 years earlier—when an unfortunate woman fell victim to the "Alphabet Murderer." Mario Bava's The Girl Who Knew Too Much (La ragazza che sapeva troppo, 1963) is more than a stylish homage to the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock. It was the first movie to show the influence of a distinctly Italian breed of thriller known as the "giallo"—named after a series of mystery pulps with yellow ("giallo") jackets published in Italy and renowned for their lurid cover art and attention to violent detail. Black Sabbath: Boris Karloff is your host for Bava's 1963 classic triptych of terror which set new standards in graphic violence and spellbinding horror! Michèle Mercier stars in "The Telephone" as a woman haunted by menacing phone calls. In "The Wurdalak," Karloff stars with Mark Damon as the patriarch of a family of bloodthirsty ghouls. And in "The Drop of Water," Jacqueline Pierreux is a nurse stalked by the vengeful spirit of a dead medium. Kill, Baby…Kill!: Set in modern day Transylvania, this creeping terror of a film follows an evil curse that has befallen a village plagued by bizarre murders. A doctor, investigating a young woman's apparent suicide, discovers the locals believe that the ghost of a baron's daughter is responsible. The victims in the small village are found dead with gold coins planted in their hearts. Director Mario Bava's chiller stars Giacomo Rossi Stuart and Erika Blanc. This moody and stylish film, filled with disturbing sequences, is one of Bava's best. Knives of the Avenger: With her husband the King missing at sea and presumed dead, Queen Karin goes into hiding with her young son Moki to escape being forced into marriage with Hagen, a general of the King's army and now a bloodthirsty pretender to the throne. Wary of strangers, she turns a beggar away from her cottage, but upon hearing her cries for help, the stranger returns and saves her from being assaulted by two men—with two well-thrown knives! The blademaster Rurik (Cameron Mitchell) is allowed to stay, and he takes the boy under his wing, teaching him the arts of survival. In time, he recognizes Karin as the woman he seduced years ago on her wedding night in retaliation for Hagen's murder of his own wife and son. Realizing that Moki might be his own son, Rurik now has a family to defend—and another to avenge—as Hagen and his soldiers converge on their hiding place! Five Dolls for an August Moon: George Stark, a wealthy industrialist and playboy, gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated island beach house for the weekend. His guest of honor is Gerry Farrell, a brilliant chemist who has discovered a remarkable new formula. Farrell doesn't care to discuss business, but the businessmen in attendance are determined to talk money—in the millions. Each of them angers the others with secret bids and back-alley deals, spawning an atmosphere of distrust, further exacerbated by the sexual intrigue in the air between the men and their various wives and mistresses. Suspicions turn into alarm when the guests begin to turn up dead, one by one! Roy Colt & Winchester Jack: Mario Bava tries something new with this zany satire of Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy. Roy Colt (Brett Halsey) and Winchester Jack (Charles Southwood) are two roguish cowboys whose gang isn't very successful at earning a dishonest dollar. Fed up with starving, the two friends decide to go their separate ways, with Roy vowing to find an honest job. But he changes his mind after arriving in Carson City, where he is made sheriff and entrusted with the replica of a stolen treasure map leading to a fortun Only the best buy direct from GRUV