OVERALL:
BLOOD:
BEASTS
BREASTS
Original Title: Buio Omega.
Aka: Buried Alive (USA), Blue
Holocaust
Aka: Buried Alive (USA), Blue
Holocaust
Director: Joe D'Amato
Writers: Ottavio Fabbri (screenplay)
Giacomo Guerrini (story)
Cast---
Kieran Canter ... Frank Wyler
Cinzia Monreale ... Anna Völkl & Elena Völkl
Franca Stoppi ... Iris
Sam Modesto ... Mr. Kale
Anna Cardini ... Jogging victim
Lucia D'Elia ... Jan, hitch-hiker
Mario Pezzin ... Priest
Runtime:94 min
Writers: Ottavio Fabbri (screenplay)
Giacomo Guerrini (story)
Cast---
Kieran Canter ... Frank Wyler
Cinzia Monreale ... Anna Völkl & Elena Völkl
Franca Stoppi ... Iris
Sam Modesto ... Mr. Kale
Anna Cardini ... Jogging victim
Lucia D'Elia ... Jan, hitch-hiker
Mario Pezzin ... Priest
Runtime:94 min
BEYOND THE DARKNESS (1979)
After finishing “ANTROPOPHAGUS”, another D’Amato horror flick( which I loved ) I placed “BEYOND
THE DARKNESS” in my Netflix list expecting something great. Everyone has said that it was D’Amato’s
most insane gore picture. I will not lie to you, there was plenty of gore, but it went nowhere, it was
shallow and cheap. I only really got a good thrill during the dismemberment of the hitchhiker. But more
on that later.
Young Frank, who is a rich orphan, lives in a mansion and seems to live a care free life. He has a
girlfriend which means everything to him…everything. But the sinister housekeeper Iris is jealous of her
and kills her off using a voodoo doll. Frank is at her bedside and though you’d think he’d be distraught
his stupid face never changes. When he gets home Iris comforts him. Holding him close to her chest she
unbuttons her blouse and breast feeds him. He is sad and confused so he sucks on her boob. Later he
concocts a
twisted plan to bring his girlfriend back. He digs up her corpse and puts her in the back of his van. While
he is driving in the dark his van gets a flat and after he’s changed it he finds a chunky hitchhiker girl in
the passenger seat. She’d snuck in. After smoking some weed the hitchhiker falls asleep and Frank
drives the van into his garage.
Now this dumbass starts to work on his girlfriends corpse and doesn’t even think of getting rid of the
fat hitchhiker girl. He strips her down, disembowels her, pulling all the intestines and stuff out and eats
her heart while it’s still squirting blood. Then he puts tubes in her nose and sucks out some bloody
sludge. He is planning on stuffing her up and using her as a large throw pillow. He gets interrupted when
the fat girl wakes up and starts asking questions (understandably). She badly scratches his neck with
her long nails so he teaches her a lesson by pulling all her finger nails out with large pliers. He finishes
up by suffocating her. This man must have had some serious mental problems even before his girlfriend
died. When your loved one passes you don’t go keeping them like a human pillow. And then he kills so
easily. Id like to know how this freak grew up, his childhood. He was probably killing animals, cooking
them and eating them in his backyard. And the housekeeper is even worse than him. I don’t know about
you but I like some back story on my murderer.
Iris then helps Frank dress his girlfriend and lay her on a bed. Now my favorite scene of the film. They
have cool ways of disposing of the bodies in this film and here is no different. Frank is pouring some
lethal acid into the bathtub. He pours like three large jugs of the thing. Meanwhile Iris chops off the fat
girls arms , legs, and head and tosses them into the tub. The acid eats everything up and there’s a
creamy mess leftover. By the way the fat girl has some sweet boobs. You don’t often see fat girl’s boobs
in movies. They want slim girls. But these boobs were a bouncy delight, considering she was dead and
having her limbs severed from her body. Later Iris seduces Frank by sticking her hand in his pants and
stroking his cock. A jogger also falls prey to Franks murderous ways. While having sex with her he bites
a chunk off her neck. Now for some reason they have a cremation oven in the mansion and in goes the
jogger. Frank and Iris can’t seem to get along now. They get into a nasty brawl where Iris pokes Frank’s
eye out. Iris’ jealousy even goes as far as the corpse of the darn girlfriend !
I did not like this movie. It’s strange, slow, and shallow. I’d watch it again with a friend though to give it
another shot. I guess you can never guess what to expect when you have pornographers making horror
films.
- Jorge Antonio Lopez
THE DARKNESS” in my Netflix list expecting something great. Everyone has said that it was D’Amato’s
most insane gore picture. I will not lie to you, there was plenty of gore, but it went nowhere, it was
shallow and cheap. I only really got a good thrill during the dismemberment of the hitchhiker. But more
on that later.
Young Frank, who is a rich orphan, lives in a mansion and seems to live a care free life. He has a
girlfriend which means everything to him…everything. But the sinister housekeeper Iris is jealous of her
and kills her off using a voodoo doll. Frank is at her bedside and though you’d think he’d be distraught
his stupid face never changes. When he gets home Iris comforts him. Holding him close to her chest she
unbuttons her blouse and breast feeds him. He is sad and confused so he sucks on her boob. Later he
concocts a
twisted plan to bring his girlfriend back. He digs up her corpse and puts her in the back of his van. While
he is driving in the dark his van gets a flat and after he’s changed it he finds a chunky hitchhiker girl in
the passenger seat. She’d snuck in. After smoking some weed the hitchhiker falls asleep and Frank
drives the van into his garage.
Now this dumbass starts to work on his girlfriends corpse and doesn’t even think of getting rid of the
fat hitchhiker girl. He strips her down, disembowels her, pulling all the intestines and stuff out and eats
her heart while it’s still squirting blood. Then he puts tubes in her nose and sucks out some bloody
sludge. He is planning on stuffing her up and using her as a large throw pillow. He gets interrupted when
the fat girl wakes up and starts asking questions (understandably). She badly scratches his neck with
her long nails so he teaches her a lesson by pulling all her finger nails out with large pliers. He finishes
up by suffocating her. This man must have had some serious mental problems even before his girlfriend
died. When your loved one passes you don’t go keeping them like a human pillow. And then he kills so
easily. Id like to know how this freak grew up, his childhood. He was probably killing animals, cooking
them and eating them in his backyard. And the housekeeper is even worse than him. I don’t know about
you but I like some back story on my murderer.
Iris then helps Frank dress his girlfriend and lay her on a bed. Now my favorite scene of the film. They
have cool ways of disposing of the bodies in this film and here is no different. Frank is pouring some
lethal acid into the bathtub. He pours like three large jugs of the thing. Meanwhile Iris chops off the fat
girls arms , legs, and head and tosses them into the tub. The acid eats everything up and there’s a
creamy mess leftover. By the way the fat girl has some sweet boobs. You don’t often see fat girl’s boobs
in movies. They want slim girls. But these boobs were a bouncy delight, considering she was dead and
having her limbs severed from her body. Later Iris seduces Frank by sticking her hand in his pants and
stroking his cock. A jogger also falls prey to Franks murderous ways. While having sex with her he bites
a chunk off her neck. Now for some reason they have a cremation oven in the mansion and in goes the
jogger. Frank and Iris can’t seem to get along now. They get into a nasty brawl where Iris pokes Frank’s
eye out. Iris’ jealousy even goes as far as the corpse of the darn girlfriend !
I did not like this movie. It’s strange, slow, and shallow. I’d watch it again with a friend though to give it
another shot. I guess you can never guess what to expect when you have pornographers making horror
films.
- Jorge Antonio Lopez
