(aka: SHOCK or BEYOND THE DOOR II)
In fact, it's a lot better than most of the Italo-horror shot in the late-70s. It's not the best of Bava's films but it ain't no dud, either.
Bruno & Dora Baldini and her son, Marco, move back into a house where Dora and her late husband Carlo used to live. All sorts of ghostly things occur as Marco is slowly being taken over by his late-father's spirit and he winds up doing bad things to his mother. Like sending strange notes, making threats and sticking razor blades between the piano keys so his mother will cut herself.
It also seems that Dora (Daria Nicolodi) also has a bizarre past herself. She was once locked up in a nuthouse and had to undergo electro-shock therapy because she had a mental breakdown after her late-husband's death. It's also been alleged that her late drug-addicted husband Carlo had committed suicide but that's not the case at all. It seems Carlo's corpse is actually buried in the cellar behind a wall and that... (?)
Well...you'll have to see the film for yourself to find out how he got there. It doesn't have very much gore but it makes up for it in well-constructed shocks and scares that should put viewing audiences on edge.
With David Colin playing the 10 year old Marco, and Ivan Rassimov as Dora's psychiatrist, this is well worth seeing. Check it out if you're looking for something along the lines of THE OMEN or John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN.
7 out of 10
In fact, it's a lot better than most of the Italo-horror shot in the late-70s. It's not the best of Bava's films but it ain't no dud, either.
Bruno & Dora Baldini and her son, Marco, move back into a house where Dora and her late husband Carlo used to live. All sorts of ghostly things occur as Marco is slowly being taken over by his late-father's spirit and he winds up doing bad things to his mother. Like sending strange notes, making threats and sticking razor blades between the piano keys so his mother will cut herself.
It also seems that Dora (Daria Nicolodi) also has a bizarre past herself. She was once locked up in a nuthouse and had to undergo electro-shock therapy because she had a mental breakdown after her late-husband's death. It's also been alleged that her late drug-addicted husband Carlo had committed suicide but that's not the case at all. It seems Carlo's corpse is actually buried in the cellar behind a wall and that... (?)
Well...you'll have to see the film for yourself to find out how he got there. It doesn't have very much gore but it makes up for it in well-constructed shocks and scares that should put viewing audiences on edge.
With David Colin playing the 10 year old Marco, and Ivan Rassimov as Dora's psychiatrist, this is well worth seeing. Check it out if you're looking for something along the lines of THE OMEN or John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN.
7 out of 10