<sod>By the social standards of the 1960s, ''Black Sunday'' was considered unusually gruesome, and was banned in the UK until 1968 because of its violence. In the U.S., some of the gore was censored, in-house, by the distributor [[American International Pictures]] before its [[Film release|theatrical release]] to the country's cinemas. Despite the censorship, ''Black Sunday'' was a worldwide [[Film criticism|critical]] and [[box office]] success, and launched the careers of director Mario Bava and movie star Barbara Steele. In 2004, one of its sequences was voted number 40 among the "[[100 Scariest Movie Moments]]" by the [[Bravo (US TV network)|Bravo TV network]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bravotv.com/The_100_Scariest_Movie_Moments//index.shtml|title=The 100 Scariest Movie Moments|accessdate=5 July 2012|work=[[Bravo (US TV network)|bravotv.com]] |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060713230931/http://www.bravotv.com/The_100_Scariest_Movie_Moments/index.shtml |archivedate =13 July 2006}}</ref><eod>
<sod>By the social standards of the 1960s, ''Black Sunday'' was considered unusually gruesome, and was banned in the UK until 1968 because of its violence. In the U.S., some of the gore was censored, in-house, by the distributor [[American International Pictures]] before its [[Film release|theatrical release]] to the country's cinemas, where it was shown as a [[double feature]] with [[Roger Corman]]'s ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]''. Despite the censorship, ''Black Sunday'' was a worldwide [[Film criticism|critical]] and [[box office]] success, and launched the careers of director Mario Bava and movie star Barbara Steele. In 2004, one of its sequences was voted number 40 among the "[[100 Scariest Movie Moments]]" by the [[Bravo (US TV network)|Bravo TV network]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bravotv.com/The_100_Scariest_Movie_Moments//index.shtml|title=The 100 Scariest Movie Moments|accessdate=5 July 2012|work=[[Bravo (US TV network)|bravotv.com]] |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060713230931/http://www.bravotv.com/The_100_Scariest_Movie_Moments/index.shtml |archivedate =13 July 2006}}</ref><eod>