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| | Black Sunday |
 | | Asa’s branding is shown, explicitly, in extreme close-up (I hasten to remind you that the branding of human beings was specifically forbidden by the Hays Code, which was still technically in force in 1961, when Black Sunday reached the US), and when her mask is installed, blood sprays in gouts from around its edges. |
 | | Sure, it’s in black and white, and it’s one of those 19th-century period pieces set in eastern Europe-- the kind that the horror genre was up to its eyeballs in, and had been since about 1922-- but look at the way this shopworn subject matter is handled here. |
 | | Apparently, it is the 17th century in Moldavia (eastern Romania, bleeding into what had been the southwestern Soviet Union, for those of you who consistently bombed your geography exams), and the occasion is a once-in-a-century Satanic holiday of sorts, known to the locals as Black Sunday. |
| www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsa-d/blacksunday.htm (1156 words) |
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