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Black Sabbath (1963 ; 92 Brain Eaters ) : This is an Italian horror film directed by Mario Bava and writen by Mario Bava, Alberto Bevilacqua, Ivan Chekhov, Marcello Fondato, F.G. Snyder and Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy. The films Italian title is "I Tre volti della paura", which means "The Three Faces of Fear." The film is comprised of three horror stories, "The Wurdalak", "The Drop of Water" and "The Telephone. When releases in American they changed the sequence of the episodes ("The Telephone," followed by "The Wurdalak," followed by "The Drop of Water"). Also it features a different music score, has different introductory scenes involving Karloff as the narrator, some of which are tongue-in-cheek and the stories themselves are somewhat different as well. This film has a great cast but the best would have to be the amazing Boris Karloff. Also a fun fact: This film served as inspiration for the naming of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, in 1968, the band (then called Earth) was playing a small club in Birmingham, England. Across the street was a movie theater showing the film Black Sabbath. The band noticed that more people were in line to see the movie than were to see the band. Realizing that "horror sells tickets" they decided to change the band's name to Black Sabbath. 

  The Telephone - Rosy receives many phone calls threatening her. She believes her former lover, who has just escaped from prison, is calling her. She denounced him for a crime committed time ago and he was convicted. She calls her girlfriend Mary to stay with her. A secret is revealed and a tragedy happens in the end. 

  The Wurdalak - Vladimire d'Urfe, a young man, is riding a horse at night and finds a man with a knife in his back. He withdraws the dagger from the man and finds a house close to the place where he found the body. There, he meets a family composed of two brothers, one sister, one sister-in-law and one nephew, and he falls in love at first sight with the beautiful Sdenka. He realizes that the dead man was a criminal, probably killed by the head of the family Gorca, and he is advised to leave that place, before Gorca arrives back at midnight. The family informs him that there is a chance that Gorca might have been transformed in a Wurdulak, a kind of vampire who drains blood from the living persons. A few seconds after midnight, Gorca comes back home, and the afraid family does not know whether he was transformed or not. The family discovers later what happened in a tragic way.

  The Drop Of Water - Helen Chester is called to prepare the body of a countess for her funeral. She steals the worthy ring from her finger. The countess comes back from beyond to retrieve her ring, terrifying the frightened woman.