Maelstrom - Il figlio dell'altrove (2001) (V)

Director:

Ivan Zuccon

Writers:

H.P. Lovecraft (mythology)
Enrico Saletti (writer)

Release Date:

2001 (Italy)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Beyond is calling

Cast

Michael Segal	...	Son of the Ancient Ones
Emanuele Cerman	...	Ian Hicks
Roberta Marrelli	...	Keziah
Giuseppe Gobbato
Alessio Pascutti	...	Pickman
Francesco Malaspina	...	Boris
Caterina Zanca
Laura Coratti
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Giorgia Bassano	...	Anouk
Kristina Cepraga		(as Kitty Cepraga)
Lorenza Damiani
Walter D'Errico
Loana Gloriani
Liliana Letterese	...	Valerie
Roberta Romagnoli	...	Zelda
Valeria Sannino
Piergiorgio Schiona	...	Alan
Matteo Tosi

Also Known As:

Unknown Beyond (UK) (DVD title) (USA)

Runtime:

Italy:86 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Germany:16 | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Ferrara, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Company:

ArabesqueFILM

Movie Connections:

Follows L'altrove (2000) (V)

too modern zero-budget digital-video trash

it's a real big bummer that people easily are able too make movies because of cheap digital video cams nowadays. usually I would appreciate this possibility but if you see movies like this it's just a big shame. and it's also big shame if people like h.p. lovecraft get abused by the likes of this. I rented this "movie" cuz of the drop "h.p. lovecraft" on it. and I'm a big fan of many of his adaptions, mainly those done by brian yuzna & stuart gordon. this movie has nothing to deliver! a cheap scenery on a beach and in an old wine-cellar. digi-cam effect "red light" over the whole movie. no actors, just some stupid low-grade models who have for sure no idea what they are doing, stiff as wood. and so must be the director. It's obvious that he tried to create some atmosphere. but as the whole things is so laughable it just doesn't work. and no gore-effects, just some blood in a river (you drink = you become demon) and dropping here and there. oh yeah, the story: thousands of years ago some "big old" colonised the world and took humans as slaves. then mankind got independent, so the "old ones" tried to destroy them. and now there are some survivors in a post-apocalyptic world. the only possibility to save mankind is to find the NECRONOMICON, that's where it gets to LOVECRAFT. so those soldiers fight against some undead and demons on their beach and in their wine-cellar. unbelievable - the whole thing! but as it is dubbed (german title: "Armee des Jenseits) and you can find it in most commercial video-stores it seems as if you can make money with stuff like that. I find this fact impressive.