"Beyond the Darkness" is a movie that was probably made when D'Amato was shooting a porn and had some extra time with the actors unspent, so he decided to make a horror movie. The result is a painfully boring movie with a lot of gore and nudity. It does resemble a movie, but there is almost no meaningful plot (young man Francesco is living in a big house with his old female servant Iris with which he has an unhealthy sexual relationship. His girlfriend dies, so he digs her corpse out and makes a doll out of her which he keeps in the house. He then proceeds to flirt with women and call them to his house where he kills them and disposes of their bodies. He is investigated by an unknown man. He decides to marry his servant, but they worsen their relationship. Then his girlfriends sister arrives and servant wants to kill her, but he kills her instead because she reminds him of her sister and then he dies from the wounds which are result of the conflict with the servant. That man who investigated him for his personal reasons finds the sister alive, but thinks she is dead and then he returns her to the priest. She opens the coffin screaming and that marks the end of the movie). And that lasts for an hour and a half! Yes, I am aware that the movie is a remake, but it's still badly made. Not even nudity and gore help with this kind of training in boredom. There is no character development and nothing interesting in the movie, except maybe some music that was made by the famous Goblin. Other than that, "Beyond the Darkness" is a flawed movie which is boring beyond redemption and has nothing in it to make it worth watching, unless you are a hardcore D'Amato fan. 4.5/10 from me. Not recommended!
Review of Beyond the Darkness
