Abstract
This chapter describes Mario Bava's Black Sunday as a fairy tale with an occasional emphasis on the grim that is rife with both literary and cinematic references. It discusses Bava's use of visual quotations of American horror films that is quite remarkable because of the ban until the early 1950s. It cites how Bava was knowledgeable in art history that shows up in his debut. The chapter talks about torch-bearing peasants who appear in the film's opening and closing scenes of James Whale's Frankenstein in 1931 a one of the noticeable citations of the Universal horror-esque. It mentions Jean Cocteau's adaptation of La Belle et la Bête in 1946 from the story by Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont as the strongest stylistic influence on Bava.
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