10 Amazing Horror Anthology Films You Have To See

From legendary Italian horror director Mario Bava comes Black Sabbath, a horror anthology with an introduction and conclusion by Boris Karloff. How could you not want to watch that? Black Sabbath tells three stories: a woman receives threatening phone calls from a stalker (very reminiscent of the opening of Scream), a man returns home after killing an undead creature, and a woman steals from a corpse only to be haunted by the very unhappy ghost.

Black Sabbath is one of the early horror anthology films, and what's interesting about this one is that Bava doesn't even care to have any sort of frame narrative. There's no connection between these stories; the film just opens with Boris Karloff as himself standing in front of a blue background talking directly to the audience and saying, "Allow me to present three brief tales of terror and the supernatural." Alright, sure, why not? Considering how weak the frame narrative is in many other anthologies, that's actually kind of refreshing.

The Wurdulak is the clear weak link here, but all three segments are worthy of seeing in their own way. The final one, The Drop of Water, is genuinely terrifying and some of Bava's best work of his career. His direction elevates the whole thing beyond generic horror fare and into a visual work of art, and really, that's the main reason to watch it.