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Beyond Darkness
Directed byClaudio Fragasso
Screenplay by
  • Claudio Fragasso
  • Sarah Asproon[2][1]
Story by
  • Claudio Fragasso
  • Sarah Asproon[2][1]
Starring
  • David Brandon
  • Gene Le Brock
  • Barbara Bingham
CinematographyLarry J. Fraser[1]
Edited byKathleen Stratton[1]
Music byCarlo Maria Cordio[1]
Production
company
Filmirage[1]
Distributed byArtisti Associati International[1]
CountryItaly[1]

Beyond Darkness (Italian: La Casa 5) is an Italian horror film written and directed by Claudio Fragasso.[3]

Plot

A minister and his family move into a new house, without knowing that it was built over the place where twenty witches were burnt at the stake. Soon the terror begins, with the house terrorizing its inhabitants (a la Amityville Horror) with the elements that lie within the construction, for example; a possessed radio and a flying cleaver. The priest's young son is possessed by the demons of Hell, and he enlists the aid of another, more experienced priest to help him perform an exorcism on the boy, in a sequence very similar to that in The Exorcist. The spirit of a female serial killer also inhabits the house, an ugly baldheaded woman who was electrocuted by the state for murdering ten children and ingesting their souls inside herself. The twenty executed witches also reappear in the form of black shrouded ghosts as the exorcism proceeds.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "La casa 5 (1990)" (in Italian). Retrieved April 25, 2019.
  2. ^ a b Curti 2019, p. 133.
  3. ^ J.C. Maçek III (2013-04-26). "Books of the Dead: The Followers and Clones of 'The Evil Dead'". PopMatters.

Sources

  • Curti, Roberto (2017). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970–1979. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476629605.
  • Curti, Roberto (2019). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476672434.
  • Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476662916.
  • Gregory, David; Caddeo, Federico. "A Hell of a Team". Gorezone. No. 32. ISSN 0896-8802.

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