Another very slow paced Italian horror with minimal plot and annoying music. The atmosphere isn't too bad but everything else is and that's probably due to its low budget.
It isn't really a sequel to "Beyond the Door" either. It just shares a couple of the cast members. The Marco...( read more)
Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr.
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who processes her young son.
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August 19, 2007
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July 21, 2007
AKA Shock. Later (70s) Bava has a tendency to be utter crap in my book but overall this wasn't too bad. This is one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen--I wanted to straight up murder the little kid through the whole thing, but I didn't know whether to laugh or puke at the sce...( read more)
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March 22, 2008
Doesn't really pick up until towards the end, but some fantastic in camera special effects.
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July 20, 2009
Such a great little moody haunted house story! Bava crafts a well paced tale involving a family moving into a house where the son is quickly possessed by a ghostly spirit and begins tormenting his mother while his step-father is out of town. The mother's cracking sanity and clu...( read more)
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February 8, 2008
Although rumored to be more of a direction by son Lamberto, Shock deals with more mature subject matter than Bava previously dealt with. Great camera tricks give way to a great jump out of your seat scene.
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August 20, 2007
Really average film. You can tell that Lamberto had way more to do with this than Mario did. Aside from the hallucinary sequences this didn't have Bavas touch at all. Dario Argenos Inferno (which Bava worked on) felt far more like a Bava film than this one did.
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