High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Black Sunday (Italian: La maschera del demonio; also known as The Mask of Satan) is a 1960 Italian gothic horror film directed by Mario Bava, from a screenplay by Ennio de Concini, Mario Serandrei and Marcello Coscia (who was uncredited). The film stars Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Arturo Dominici and Ivo Garrani. It was Bava`s directorial debut, although he had completed several previous feature films without credit. Based very loosely on Nikolai Gogol`s short story "Viy", the narrative concerns a vampire-witch who is put to death by her own brother, only to return 200 years later to feed on her descendants.