The Mario Bava Collection, Volume 1 (Black Sunday / Black Sabbat

This five-disc tribute to the great Italian horror filmmaker opens with Bava's landmark chiller, 'Black Sunday' (1960). Executed for witchcraft, Barbara Steele returns from the grave 300 years later to possess the body of her look-alike descendant. With Ivo Garrani, John Richardson. AKA: 'The Demon's Mask.'

Next, Boris Karloff hosts the terror trilogy 'Black Sabbath' (1963), in which a corpse seeks its ring from the woman who stole it, a telephone becomes a link between the living and the dead, and a vampire (Karloff) must prey on his loved ones. AKA: 'The Three Faces of Fear.'

In Rome, American tourist Leticia Roman becomes 'The Girl Who Knew Too Much' (1963) when no one believes she witnessed the latest murder by the Alphabet Killer. John Saxon co-stars. AKA: 'The Evil Eye.'

And Viking warrior Cameron Mitchell has his own reasons for defending a widowed peasant and her son from attackers out to kill them in the actioner 'Knives of the Avenger' (1965), with Fausto Tozzi and Elissa Pichelli. AKA: 'Bladestorm,' 'The Viking Massacre.'

Also includes 'Kill, Baby, Kill.'

NOTE: This set features both the international and U.S. versions of 'Black Sunday,' 'Black Sabbath' and 'The Girl Who Knew Too Much.'

11 2/3 hrs. total.