Review of Black Sabbath

I got this absolutely certain that i would not enjoy it at all. Luckily i was mistaken, each one of the three short stories is good in its own way and the way they are presented is amazing. The film being three films and acknowledging it by having Boris Karloff not only present them but also act in the one of them absolutely destroys any mystique behind the stories. So the way i see it, in the last segment for example, it's less about the evil lady curse itself and more about the way the nurse perceives reality, just look at all the things that scare her back in her place, the half open tap, cat's meowing, the raindrops falling out of her umbrella, etc. These are all things that lead her directly to the memory of not only the old lady laying dead in bed but also her crime. What the movie does is, by associating these signs to paranormal movements it makes us the audience feel like the character. I was also very impressed by the last scene, where the camera zooms out of Boris Karloff and shows the set of the movie, that to me is the way Bava found to say that these are not superstitious films and that his goal with it was not to try to make you believe in the supernatural, much on the contrary, he is using it to show much more material things such as envy and guilt.