{"id":2441,"date":"2011-03-08T13:31:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T13:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2011-03-08T13:31:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T13:31:58","slug":"the-times-review-black-sabbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/the-times-review-black-sabbath\/","title":{"rendered":"The Times Review: Black Sabbath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; in the same bill is a recent work of the Italian horror specialist, Mr. Mario Bava, called in its English version <strong>Black Sabbath<\/strong>.  It is not, as it happens, one of his best works, but the first episode, based on Chekhov&#8217;s story &#8216;A Drop of Water&#8217;, is very well managed in a traditional, gasp-getting way and the last, with Mr Boris Karloff as the head of a family of vampires (courtesy of Tolstoy) has its moments of real horror, though unfortunately shorn of its original ending, a weird piece of Brechtian endistancement in which the camera drew back to reveal the vampire&#8217;s desperate ride through the night as a confection of studio lights, a wind machine and a wooden horse wildly rocking.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Times<\/em><\/strong> Thursday, Dec 03, 1964; pg. 7; Issue 56185; col D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of Bava&#8217;s Black Sabbath from The Times in 1964<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[324],"tags":[625],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}