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To: trisham

I guess around 10 or 11. There were other versions of it with different music and voice-overs. But the one I linked to is by far the best.

From Wikipedia...

“In order to make the film more accessible to American audiences, AIP trimmed over three minutes’ worth of violence and “objectionable” content.[8] Sequences excised or shortened included the burning “S” branded into Asa’s flesh and the blood spewing from the mask after it was hammered into her face, the moist eyeball impalement of Kruvajan and the flesh peeling off Vajda’s face as he burned to death in the fireplace. In the original version of the film, Asa and Javuto were brother and sister; in the AIP version, Javuto became Asa’s servant. In addition, some dialogue was “softened”, including Asa’s line, “You too can find the joy and happiness of Hades!”; AIP modified it to “You too can find the joy and happiness of hating!”[5]

Roberto Nicolosi’s musical score was replaced by an effective but more generic “horror”-sounding one by Les Baxter, and the dialogue was completely redubbed into English. As the entire cast, with the exception of Checchi and Dominici, had spoken their lines in English, this was a relatively easy task. Galatea had provided AIP with their own English-language version, which had been completed by the Language Dubbers Association in Rome. However, Arkoff and Nicholson felt this version was stilted and “technically unacceptable”, so a newly recorded English version was commissioned and produced by Titra Sound Corporation in New York. (Barbara Steele’s own voice was not heard in any version).[5]”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_maschera_del_demonio


55 posted on 10/06/2012 4:35:07 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

Holy mackerel. Do you have other favourites? I’m a fan of “Rosemary’s Baby”, but it’s not like “Black Sunday”. Neither is “The Exorcist”, although both are well done, with some of the scenes in “The Exorcist” poorly executed, which may have been due to the technology of the day. Still.


57 posted on 10/06/2012 5:30:29 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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