Black Sabbath - the drop of water ending

[Jess0062]

This movie should get the Oscar for scariest freakin' ghost ever. And most nightmare-inducing corpse-makeup job ever.

[TheeAngelica]

OMFGGGGGGGGGGGGGG! I ALMOST CRIED.

[FEAROWNAGE]

Which is scarier this scene or the Zelda scene from Pet Sematary?

[ErdnussTempler]

This is very scary :-D

[rottenhat]

Incredible to this day. The pacing of the Italian version is far superior to the American release. Mario Bava's dad designed the mask for the dead medium, why this was not mass produced for Halloween is beyond me. I saw this movie at the age of 8 and it is still my favorite horror flick. Remember the little vampire boy in "The Wurdalak" feebly knocking on the door saying, "Mommy, I'm cold........" ? "The Drop of Water" is a masterpiece----I will never forget that face.

[5jerry1]

That is one of the scariest scenes in any movie out there. It shows you don't need violence or things that jump out at you to be scary. Those things can work, but atmosphere works every time. The corpse is portrayed by a woman named Harriet Medin, and the image of her in this film is something you don't forget any time soon.

[clintbronson5]

Fuck! She makes the PET SEMETARY girl look like Kim Kordashian

[R3MDZ]

Watched this last night. She looked sooo cheesy but i was still like HOLY SHIT!

[stanchrisradu]

@ColdmaN5 i'm 13 and that corpse is the only horror thing that made me feel chills down my spine when I go in my room at night. It's like she's behind me. And believe me, I'm experienced in Horrors

[FEAROWNAGE]

@stanchrisradu Me too

[lifeishomeless]

there are just no good movies made anymore. especially horror

[Hippiecult]

Bava was a gargantuan director. This is absolutely one of the best of all time and a great example of a "terror film".

[McSqueaky]

1:40 HNGGG!!!

[ivegonemadd1]

You know somebody, somewhere, prob in Italy, has that very 50 some odd year old dummy sitting in their attic or basement. How much you want to bet!?

[tenterden16]

@ivegonemadd1 Yes, I have that same feeling. Imagine having a Halloween party with her sitting in a rocking chair in the corner of the room.

[5jerry1]

@ivegonemadd1

Actually that is an actress. Her name is Harriet Medin.

[2010metsfan]

I still have nightmares about that dead (?) woman in the bed! The light flashing on and off befores the lady goes into the room adds to the haunting effect....creepy!

[MrIhateislam100]

i don't know why but this scares the hell out of me

[5jerry1]

@MrIhateislam100

Probably because it's scary. :-)

[shirleywicksfan]

That IS scary....and I've seen all sorts...!

[ahz123]

This terrified me when I was a kid.

[jonsilence]

This is a classic ghost story and a brilliant film...it has remained one of my favorites since I saw it back in the early 60s. Bravo Bava!

[thurin68]

When I first saw this scene as a kid I think I just about soiled myself..One of the most disturbing horror scenes I'd ever seen..LOL!

[ThePotatoLord]

kinda creepy, I still find the white face from The Exorcist to be much more unsettling.

[alienhell663]

This and Psycho are by far the creepiest movie endings I've seen. But man, both with corpses. There must be a link :P

[jrolfe007]

P.S. I think that was them most I've ever been scared by a movie.

[jrolfe007]

I saw this movie when I was a kid at a midnight Shiver Shutter show with a theater full of other kids. Everyone was screaming. It haunted me for years afterwards. They don't make horror movies like this any more

[getoutofmyway01]

I freaked out and cried about this movie when I was little. Damn scariest thing I ever saw to this day.

[ska2808]

This movie's one of Phil Anselmo's (Pantera, Down, Superjoint Ritual) favourite films ... the man's got good taste!

[tenterden16]

I could never understand the American system of films like this being unrated The UK BBFC gave Black Sabbath an Xcertificate on it's release which ment you had to be sixteen or over to see it. What sort of mental state would it leave a five year old in ?

[btillman99]

I can say that it wasn't that tramatic for me. In fact I felt like a brave man because my brother and I were only a handful of people that didn't run out screaming. Still I was frightened when anyone did an impression of the dead woman with the grin. And after all these years I still remember this moment. But I would agree with you that parents should not let 5 year olds see something like this. If my mother had known I think she would have still let us go anyway. Times were different back then.

[btillman99]

I saw this movie in a theater in 1963. I was only 4 or 5 years old. My older brother sat next to me, he was around 11 at the time. When this scene was on everyone started screaming and literally running for the exits. I was amazed at watching almost everyone actually getting up from their seats and running out of the theater. My brother and I were about the only ones left. I only saw people leave their seats at one other movie and that was rape scene in Deliverance. Sheesh!

[lowendentheogen]

awesome shit

[Ariessfij]

Heavy Metal Band Black Sabbath was named after this movie!

[Mercenary78]

stephan king and clive barker eat your heart out

[anhacus]

When I was a funeral director I had a couple of corpses that looked just like her.

[getoutofmyway01]

@anhacus My mother said as a young child in sicily, she did see a women that died and looked just like this. And they couldn't close her eyes, either. The wakes are held in the family home. Not at a parlor like here....

[mstatz]

This was the first horror movie I ever saw. It was 1973 and I was only 5 years old. I was pretty scared! Definitely a classic!

[osfs3411]

Kick ass, one of the greatest horror scenes EVER.

[ILUV80SMOVIES]

KREEEEEPY!

iM DyInG 2 C THIS FiLM!!!!!!!

[NotSoPhotogenic]

Surprisingly creepy for something so phony-looking.

[Knifesrfun]

its not that scary.

[mappoprimo]

my butt smells

[LazerBHPProductions]

Why can't horror movies be this scary anymore? Classic Black Sabbath-Mario Bava's best part of that movie was "Drop of Water" in the beginning. Five out of five stars for "Drop of Water!"

[batcountryrabid]

NETFLIX HAS THIS. omfg that movie was so lame and so cheesy its so totally fake--but seriously, its just scary as fuck really...its not complicated and gorey like todays scary movies it was just basic and suspenseful and short top the point.

[johnnystarr1]

I remember watching it at midnight,all alone in a dark room...a scary experience...but even now,that I'm watching it again with the sunlight,it's scaring the shit outta me

[VideoViv]

She shouldn't have stolen that dead lady's ring, man... Revenge from the grave... Indeed..

[VideoViv]

yeah, this was/is scary. I, like many of you here, saw this as a kid - and to this day - my sisters and I talk about this dead lady. I love/hate this crap, man.  Thanks.

[bluegrasslass]

You lucky people! I never saw this as a kid (I would never have slept again if I had). I saw it for the first time when I bought the DVD last year. Bava is god when it comes to classic creeps!

[matheusmarchetti]

This was very scary...

[mhvoivod]

Bava's creepy atmosphere and one of the best lady ghosts of all time. As a kid I would stay up late to watch this, and the corpse scared the hell out of me. My mom would walk her fingers up my back from behind, then crack-up when I hit the ceiling.

[jamsedragon]

SO FREAKING FUNNY! HAHAHA! 2:29 is the funniest XD

[msmusiknut]

I also saw this one as a kid at the theater and had nightmares about it for years to come. This part of the trilogy was what kept popping into my head. I have looked for the English language version for years and can only find the Italian version.

[chopsnslams]

You should try ebay and look for the old VHS release. It probably is the American Version.

Go by the order of the stories to tell the difference. The American release has "A drop of Water", "The Telephone", then "Wurdelak".

[quink65]

Do you have the clip of the movie 'Die Monster Die! with Boris Karloff? where the woman with the radiated melted face dies..

[quink65]

I saw this movie when I was a kid in the 70's yeah it was scary then....the ugly dead woman terrfied me. They would show this on Creature Double Feature on Saturday afternoon TV. I am glad you posted this clip.

[makifilmtr]

One of my favorite Bava films! and one of the best endings in film history!

[lowellgrippo]

By today's standards I guess this part of the film wouldn't be seen as very scary, but when I saw "Black Sabbath" at the local theatre as a kid it scared the hell out of me for a very long time! Lol! Watching it now, even after all those years, it brings back some of the fear and horror I felt then!

[crossstick]

I hear ya. I am one of those 70's kids who had the heebie jeebies for quite a while after seeing this one. I happened to be watching this on the Creature Feature by myself and ran out of the room during this scene never to see it again until now, 35 or so years later. My family never knew what I meant by being afraid of the "lady monster." ha.

[lowellgrippo]

My kids have seen this clip and think it's the scariest thing they've ever seen! They simply refer to her as "the lady," and are forever begging me to chase them around pretending to be her! I researched this actress and found out her name was "Harriet Medin." (See her entry on IMDB). Interestingly enough, she was also in my all time favorite television show, "Northern Exposure," playing "Nedra Larkin" the dying woman in "First Snow," (Season five episode ten).

[crossstick]

I hear ya. I am one of those 70's kids who had the heebie jeebies for quite a while after seeing this one. I happened to be watching this on the Creature Feature by myself and ran out of the room during this scene never to see it again until now, 35 or so years later. My family never knew what I meant by being afraid of the "lady monster." ha.

[PsychoSuo9000]

WTF! This is not even scary.

[V37324N]

Looking forward to Saw V?

[PsychoSuo9000]

heck yeah, Saw is probably the best horrific that have ever existed :D

[V37324N]

I hope you're being sarcastic. And if you're not, you might want to pretend you are.

[PsychoSuo9000]

dude, i was jk LOL :D

[V37324N]

Atta boy.

[dion1959]

Lol, that dead woman rocks!

[Gorbachenko]

I saw this movie once when I was a kid, and I was scared of the dark for the next four years because of it. It terrified me, and I saw it at four in the afternoon!

[VincibleDionysius]

Yikes! Even in broad daylite I can feel the shivers already...

(...What is this that stands before me....)

[benjilbum]

The new DVD is in Italian only. I have the English version too. I saw this in the show in 1968 when I was 14, and it scarred me out of my mind. This is the best of the 3 episodes, "A Drop of Water". Yikes is she ugly.

[myshadow88]

say cheese!

[SlasherTV]

is the new DVD in english or italian??>

[Babyjoker1331]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

ps thanks 4 tha clip

[nycoolj3]

wats the movie called?

[millaust]

black sabbath

[ElectricShed]

This scared the daylights out of me when I was a kid

[in2food]

No kidding! My brother and sister and I would put on wigs and gowns and sneak into each other's rooms immitating this film and scare the poop out of each other.

[amyvonfink]

yeah same here, i had to sleep with the lights on afterwards.

[rbair73]

This is beautiful...I've been a huge Mario Bava fan for years.Black Sabbath is a wonderfully creepy film...Thank you!

[in2food]

Thank you so much for this clip. I've been hoping that somebody would finaly post this. Thanks again!

[jobtheopossum]

you're welcome! I am glad you appreciate it! That's dead lady is creeeepy

[Jackiechan39]

@jobtheopossum

I find her kind of sexy!