If the thought of holes being punctured into your face is terrifying then the movie succeeds in the first few scenes. There is something a lot more fun about classic horror though up until about the 90s. It seems it didn't take itself as seriously, and somehow this does make things oddly more eerie, which is how Black Sunday works. Mario Bavo himself is a classic director even credited with inspiring Tim Burton's work, and getting mention from Martin Scorsese. With Black Sunday it is easy to see why he has become such a legendary director.
Princess Asa is discovered to be a witch, and along with her accomplice, Prince Vajda, they are both burned at the stake. Two centuries later though two travelers discover her grave, and decide to tamper with it by pulling off the mask of Satan that was drove into her face, and taking an inscription. Not long after Princess Asa begins raising herself from the dead, by taking blood from the descendants of those that killed her. Her ultimate goal is to take the body of her look-alike, Katia Vajda.
