Beyond the Darkness (film)
| Buio Omega | |
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 Italian film poster | |
| Directed by | Joe D'Amato |
| Produced by | Marco Rossetti |
| Written by |
Ottavio Fabbri Giacomo Guerrini |
| Starring |
Kieran Canter Cinzia Monreale Franca Stoppi |
| Music by | Goblin |
| Cinematography | Joe D'Amato |
| Edited by | Ornella Micheli |
Release dates |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Beyond the Darkness (Italian: Buio Omega) is a 1979 Italian horror film directed by Joe D'Amato. The Italian title Buio Omega translates as The Final Darkness (and not "Blue Omega" as some reference books list this film). The film was also released as Buried Alive. It features a classic soundtrack by Goblin, a band that also scored Dario Argento's Deep Red and Suspiria.
Beyond the Darkness is a sort of remake of the classic 1966 Italian giallo The Third Eye (Italian: Il terzo occhio), a horror film directed by Mino Guerrini that starred Franco Nero. [3][4] Joe D'Amato remade the film as Beyond the Darkness, using a script actually written by Mino Guerrini's son, Giacomo Guerrini.
Plot
Anna Völkl, the fiance of taxidermist Frank Wyler, dies of an illness in the hospital. But she was really killed via a voodoo doll that was handled by orphan Frank's jealous housekeeper, Iris. The housekeeper then breast feeds him for erotic lactation comfort. Yet still stricken with grief, Frank digs up Anna's body and stuffs her in his workshop so that he can sleep with his lover forever. There are graphic scenes involving Frank's disemboweling of the girl, and his efforts to install glass eyes into her sockets.
Frank later picks up a stoned hitchhiker to his home. When she spots Anna's corpse, she panics and a struggle ensues. Frank tortures her by ripping off some of her fingernails with a pair of pliers before choking her to death. When Frank is not satisfied, his housekeeper tries to comfort him once more, this time with a handjob. The housekeeper chops up the hitchhiker's corpse in her bathtub and disposes of the pieces in a hole in the woods.
A few days later, a jogger twists her ankle around Frank's home and he invites her in. They have sex on his bed, until Frank can't resist showing off Anna's corpse right next to them. Once more a fight ensues. Frank bites her neck and eats a huge chunk of her flesh. He and the housekeeper burn her corpse in the furnace downstairs.
The housekeeper invites her old, eccentric relatives for dinner and announces her engagement to Frank. Yet Frank thinks otherwise and leaves her humiliated. After various detectives secretly search the house, Frank picks up a woman at a disco. Fortunately for her, Frank just sends her off due to the arrival of Anna's twin sister Elena. She faints on seeing Anna's corpse, and the housekeeper approaches her with a knife before Frank intervenes. The housekeeper therefore decides to attack Frank instead, with Elena's fate depending on the outcome.
Cast
- Kieran Canter as Frank Wyler
- Cinzia Monreale as Anna Völkl / Elena Völkl
- Franca Stoppi as Iris (housekeeper)
- Sam Modesto as Mr. Kale
- Anna Cardini as Jogging victim
- Lucia D'Elia as Jan, hitch-hiker
Production
Beyond the Darkness is a remake of the classic 1966 Italian giallo "The Third Eye" (Italian: Il terzo occhio), a horror film directed by Mino Guerrini that starred Franco Nero. Joe D'Amato remade the film as "Beyond the Darkness", using a script actually written by Mino Guerrini's son, Giacomo Guerrini.[1]
References
- Notes
- ↑ Curti 2015, p. 171.
- Sources
- Curti, Roberto (2015). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969. McFarland. ISBN 1476619891.