La maschera del demonio (1960)

"Mario Bava (...) never lets the suspense lag, ir a scene's impact falter... Black Sunday is a film that lingers in the mind quite a while after the final 'The End'" - H.M., Film Daily vol.118 no.35 (21 February 1961) p.8

"There is sufficient cinematographic ingenuity and production flair in Black Sunday to keep an audience pleasantly unnerved. This in spite of a screenplay that reads, in translation from the original Italian, like a grade school imitation of Poe... Most of the suspense and excitement stirred up in the Massino de Rita production is accomplished by means of photography and artwork. The lens, under the perceptive guidance of director Bava, keeps zooming, swooping and snooping in and out of dark, forbidding corners of the castle and surrounding forest to hold the spectator's nerves at attention." - Tube, Variety 22 February 1961