BEYOND THE DARKNESS (1979)

[The Burgomaster]

Joe D'Amato's BEYOND THE DARKNESS is part of the "Psycho Killer Triple Feature" from Shriek Show (which is quickly becoming one of my favorite DVD companies).  The other movies in this set are Ruggero Deodato's HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK and Lamberto Bava's DELIRIUM.  All are presented in widescreen format.



BEYOND THE DARKNESS is about a taxidermist whose fiancee dies, so he digs up her body and brings it to his workshop.  He pulls out her intestines, eats her heart, sticks tubes up her nose and pumps out her brains, replaces her eyeballs with glass eyes, and stuffs her.  Now that's true love!

Other gory scenes include:

* A woman getting her fingernails pulled out with pliers.

* A woman having her throat bitten out.

* An eyeball being pulled out of its socket during a fight.

* Several stabbings.

Like many similar Italian movies from the same time period, the music is by GOBLIN.

This is a decent gore fest.  If you haven't seen it, you might want to give it a try.

[Alan Smithee]

"BEYOND THE DARKNESS is about a taxidermist whose fiancee dies, so he digs up her body and brings it to his workshop. He pulls out her intestines, eats her heart, sticks tubes up her nose and pumps out her brains, replaces her eyeballs with glass eyes, and stuffs her. Now that's true love!"

Sounds good.

[Scott]

I saw HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK a few months ago. It's not bad and has the same sicko guy from LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT playing the same type character.

[The Burgomaster]

Scott:

I watched HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK a couple of weeks ago and I was somewhat disappointed.  Once they got to the party it seemed to be very repetitive (torment this person, torment that person, etc., etc.)  Although, I thought the twist ending was pretty good.  The version I have has an interview with David Hess (the guy from LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT).  He seems much more normal than the characters he plays, but he's still a little creepy.  I'm not sure I'd trust him in real life either . . .