Based on a best selling novel. The book, which I have never read, probably is in the style that Tom Clancy made famous, with a slow methodical setup of the small details of creating the bomb and getting it to the target.
"La Maschera del demonio", also known as "Black Sunday" or "The Mask of Satan" in English, is a 1960 horror film directed by Italian horror marvel Mario Bava. It is one of Bava's earliest works, and often noted as being one of his best.
Robert Shaw plays Israeli agent Kabokov, who learns that a terrorist organization named Black September is planning an attack on the United States, which involves a known woman terrorist named Dahlia(played by Marthe Keller) who has enlisted the services of disgruntled Vietnam Veteran Michael Lander(played by Bruce Dern) to fly a Good Year blimp in the next Super Bowl, crashing its bomb-laden body into the stadium, killing thousands, all on national television. Kabokov races against time to stop this plan before it is too late...
Make no mistake about it this is a pretty good horror movie. It all begins with a Satanic vampire-witch named "Princess Asa Vajda" (Barbara Steele) and her lover "Juvato" (Arturo Dominici) being burned at the stake in the 17th Century by Princess Asa's brother.
Black Sunday is okay if you're in the mood for an old fashioned haunted house/witch film. The type with the creaky doors opening, the drapes blowing in the wind, the howling sounds outside the old castle, the old graveyard.
This is the kind of horror that I enjoy. Most of the scary stuff was created by the sound, and not the visuals, but that was enough to create an eerie atmosphere, that is intense and a bit of spooky.
Inadvertently brought back to life two centuries after she was crucified, a seventeenth century witch tries to avenge her death and possess the body of a near identical descendant in this Gothic horror film starring Barbara Steele. The film is directed by Mario Bava and making his solo feature film debut, Bava does well directing the material.
This thriller begins slowly but builds up to a brilliant conclusion. Marthe Keller is brilliant as the Palestinian female terrorist who manipulates her boyfriend, a Vietnamese POW, brilliantly played by Bruce Dern.
19th century-style melodramatic treatment of the 19th century melodramatic subject of vampires. If you like your acting overwrought and your schmaltz thick, this one's for you.