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La maschera del demonio (1960) More at IMDbPro »

• In the October 17-23, 1998 edition of "TV Guide", director Tim Burton says this is his favorite horror film.
  
  
• A young girl is sent out at night to milk a cow when Javuto (portrayed by Arturo Dominici) claws his way out of the grave nearby. The young girl is played by Dominici's real life daughter Germana Dominici.
  
  
• Both Barbara Steele and Arturo Dominici were fitted with vampire fangs. Mario Bava decided against using them in the film. They can be seen in some of the publicity photos.
  
  
• Galatea gave Mario Bava a lavish six weeks shooting schedule for this film beginning 28 March 1960. The typical Italian production during this period had only a three to four week shooting schedule.
  
  
• Barbara Steele didn't see the script in advance. She would be given pages daily.
  
  
• In the Italian language version Princess Asa and Javutich are brother and sister which hinted at an incestuous relationship. This relationship is not part of either English language version.
  
  
• Good reviews plus word-of-mouth reportedly turned this into American International's highest grossing film up to that time, exceeding their grosses for Il terrore dei barbari (1959) and Roger Corman's House of Usher (1960).
  
  
• The U.S. version released by American International has a replacement score by Les Baxter. Although Baxter is given sole credit, his score actually contains themes from Roberto Nicolosi's original score.
  
  
• Mario Bava claimed that an American company approached him about doing a color remake. He refused.
  
  
• Italian censorship certificate # 32584 delivered on 5 August 1960.
  
  
• Based on a Russian folk tale.
  
  
• The film was rejected for UK cinema by the BBFC in 1961. The uncut version was released (as "Mask of Satan") with a 15 certificate on the UK Redemption video label in 1992.
  
  

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