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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Weirdhouse Cinema: Black Sunday (1960)

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss Mario Bava’s “Black Sunday," a blood-chilling tale of witchcraft, punishment and revenge from beyond the grave, starring Barbara Steele and John Richardson.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.2

I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight...

0:08.0

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0:27.6

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0:36.9

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:47.4

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

0:50.9

And this is Joe McCormick. And today we're going to be talking about Mario Bava's 1960 Gothic horror classic Black Sunday.

1:01.5

And I selected this movie for this week because it is Halloween season.

1:06.5

We're in October.

1:07.7

And I think if you're looking for a very just core Halloween viewing experience,

1:13.8

and you've never seen this one before, it's about as good as you can do. Please take my

1:19.2

recommendation and check out Black Sunday. It is, I think, simultaneously about as good and as

1:26.6

close to the bullseye of the Gothic horror target as you

1:30.7

can get. It's got pretty much everything you could want in terms of Gothic horror texture,

1:35.9

gothic horror themes, but it also has added dashes of weirdness. It kind of cuts harder and

1:42.4

goes harder than most movies of this type.

1:45.5

But as far as the texture, you've got like searing, raging, very hate-oriented witchcraft.

1:52.8

You know, the core witch in the movie is constantly selling the virtues of hating.

1:57.7

It's got surprise vampires in the second act that I don't think I really expect it.

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