Pretty fine Italian splatter flick with a kick-ass score, some bizarre performances, a demented sense of violence, and an interesting camera style. The gore is fantastic and grisly, the kills are awesome, cleaning up the bodies adds a real detailed vibe to it all that makes you sickened and yet fascinated, and overall it feels more like a grisly gruesome horror novel from the 80s or 90s than it does a 70s horror film. I've not seen Joe's work before, but now I definitely gotta try more! Suggested for a change of pace in this halloween month when you need a good splatfactor. :D
D'Amato appears to have been attempting to tell a serious 'Psycho'-inspired story about necrophilia. He sets a proper tone, with appropriately moody cinematography and artful production design, then retreats to his comfort zone, allowing his porn-auteuer instincts and an excess of misogyny and gut-wrenching gore to overwhelm his better intentions. There may be a decent movie buried underneath all the bared breasts and hacked, burned and liquefied body parts, but I'm not sure.Iit's awfully hard to see the forest for the, um, sleaze. Strangely watchable, though, and features one of Goblin's best scores. That's worth a few extra points.
Boring, as well as somehow worse than D'Amato's other shitty work Antropophagus. At least that one had fetus eating...Hmm, never thought I'd write that sentence.
Also entitled BLUE HOLOCAUST, this movie offers several cool -and original- gory scenes. Yet, it remains an Italian B-movie, which implies the usual lame photography and faded colours that characterize any of those wonderful works of Art.
This is a prime example when rich kids have too much money and time on there hands. He basically goes nuts and pushed the envelope to keep his soul mate with him for all of eternity. However he had to know that nothing good would come of this and eventually this leads to some messed up and brutal scenes. I would have rated this higher if we got to see the jogger topless lol ... that was a disappointment for us all!
One of my friends brough this along to a movie night, with the expectations that it whas going to be a zombie film. Whe were supprised, but not that disapointed when it turned out to be something completely different. A tale of totally insane characters, unstablie story and ALOT of sex and violense, just as we like our Euro horrors. Had a dining schene that could compete with the one in Braindead, a pluss for the great acid and obduction scenes, and the main character had very, VERY strong teeths. One can do a pretty wicked movie with the help of a couple of well made human dolls, thats for sure... And by the way, the title "Beyond the Darkness" don't make any sense at all.
incest, necrophillia... this movie has both. its a story about this guy who loves this girl so much that when she dies he digs her up and keeps her corpse in his room. then he kills a few people and has sex with his mother and well just rent it okay .....
I really enjoyed this one. It had very little dialogue, which is a good thing for most Italian horror, as the translations (or perhaps the original dialogue itself) usually end up presenting viewers with a lingual distraction because, well, the dialogue isn't the best. Though graphically dipicting a man's efforts to completely gut and preserve his dead lover, this film remained surprisingly sophisticated and tasteful. The soft lighting used throughout also seemed to soften the subject matter, making it entirely tolerable and emphasizing the idea that there was a kind of innocence in his intentions.
This is one of D'Amato's better horror films. Not so heavy on the sex, but definitely heavy on the gore. Supposedly he got in trouble upon this film's release because they thought he used real cadavers in the dismembering/disembowelling scenes. They do look impressive!
A true masterpiece of terror,This is what Norman Bates wanted to be and explores the origins of a character no one wants to admit may actually exist,A frigthening and realistic portrait of a soul unbound to cope with love lost
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