I tre volti della paura 1963 European Cut 1080p BluRay x265 hevc 10bit AAC 2.0 commentary-HeVK

Black Sabbath (1963), aka I tre volti della paura, directed by Mario Bava, 4k remastered, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Italian theatrical stereo, commentary track, and English and French subtitles.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057603/

Video encoded in two-pass 10 000 kbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.

English subtitles OCRed, proofed and corrected. French subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.

Note : Mario Bava's back with an anthology film supposedly based on the works of Tolstoy, de Maupassant, and Chekov, but really takes a bit mixture of influences. The stories aren't particularly original, but it's a visual feast, and there are plenty of good actors involved, including, of course, Karloff.

The three stories are quite different: the first, The Telephone, is a giallo-like thriller about a prostitute being menaced by phone calls from her pimp, and who seeks help from her lesbian ex-lover, and has some similarities in scenes and plot points with The Girl Who Knew Too Much. This story was heavily edited and changed in the American version of the film, which is why I've chosen to encode the original Italian version. The second story, The Wurdulak, is a vampire story starring Boris Karloff, and has things in common with Black Sunday, but with a more downbeat ending. The third, The Drop of Water, is a creepy ghost story about a nurse called to clean and dress the body of a dead spiritualist medium, and is the most original and effective of the three, with no clear relationship to any other Bava films as far as I can tell, with the possible exception that the nurse's apartment seems to overlook the same green neon sign that illuminated the antiquities store in Blood and Black Lace.

I've encoded this from the UHD BluRay, which I think is a very good remaster and which gave an excellent result, at this bitrate, the image is practically indistinguishable from the original apart from the resolution. Sound is good too, and the commentary track with Tim Lucas is interesting as usual.

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