Pictures shipped their version to Pathé Color for processing. Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas described the English-language print as looking "warmer, but less nuanced, with flatter tonalities" and that it "doesn't look bad" but that the Italian version "looks more vibrant, more flamboyantly nightmarish". Release The film opened in Italy through Warner Bros. on August 17, 1963, under the title I tre volti della paura (). Black Sabbath grossed 103.5 million Italian lira (equivalent to $65,000) on its original Italian release compared to its 205 million lira budget, making the film a box office bomb. Co-writer Alberto Bevilacqua suggested that the film's poor performance was possibly affected by bad publicity, recalling that "someone had a miscarriage while watching it, or some other upsetting thing happened". American International Pictures released the English version of Black Sabbath on May 6, 1964 as a double bill with AIP's edit of Bava's The Girl Who Knew Too Much, then titled Evil Eye. The English title of Black Sabbath was chosen to connect it with Bava's previous film Black Sunday. In the US, Black Sabbath was only a modest success, earning $419,000 in domestic rentals, less than two-thirds of Black Sunday'''s earnings of $706,000. While praising Reynold Brown's artwork for AIP's advertising campaign, Lucas has suggested that its failure to capitalize on Karloff's popularity among young audiences was a key factor in the film's relatively meager commercial performance. The film was released by The Rank Organization in France on 17 November 1965, under the title Les trois visages de la peur; Lucas deemed one of the poster artworks used for the French release, created by Boris Grinsson and depicting Mercier, Andersen and Pierreux being menaced by a would-be strangler's hands, to be the "most beautiful" of all promotional materials produced for the film. In 2004, Variety announced that Valhalla Motion Pictures and Kismet Entertainment Group were collaborating to produce a remake Black Sabbath. Jonathan Hensleigh was attached to contribute to the script development of the film. Home video Image Entertainment released the film in both the English and Italian versions on DVD on August 1, 2000. Kino released the film on Blu-ray and DVD on July 16, 2013. Kino's edition of the film was mastered in high definition from the 35mm negative with the Italian language dub and original soundtrack. Arrow Films released Black Sabbath on DVD and Blu-ray in 2013. Arrow's transfer of the