Black Sunday by Martyn Conterio

Author:Martyn Conterio
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PER004010, Performing Arts/Film & Video/Direction & Production, PER004030, Performing Arts/Film & Video/History & Criticism
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

The Vajda family’s emblem/crest – a dragon – as seen in the fireplace, the crypt and upon Javuto’s costume also aligned Black Sunday to the historical and very real voivode, Vlad III, also known as Vlad the Impaler, who belonged to the Order of the Dragon. It has been suggested Javuto was a knight of the Order of the Dragon (perfect cover for a Satanist, then). This makes the costume given to his character more historically resonant than AIP’s redubbed dismal of him as Asa’s ‘bitch’, to use a modern phrase.

Kruvajan’s speech in the crypt, too, is an echo of Count Dracula’s speech to Harker about the family past and its glories.

Ah, young sir, the Szekelys – and the Dracula as their heart’s blood, their brains, and their swords – can boast a record that mushroom growths like the Hapsburgs and Romanoffs can never reach. (Stoker, 1897: 26)

Kruvajan: ‘Nothing remains of the ancient princes of Vajda but the dead shadows of their former glory. I think all the Vajdas have disappeared and with them all the history of ancient Moldavia.’

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