Beyond Darkness

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{{Infobox film

| name = Beyond Darkness

| image = La Casa 5 - Beyond the Darkness (1990 Film).jpg

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| director= Claudio Fragasso

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| screenplay= {{plainlist|* Claudio Fragasso

Sarah Asproon{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=133}}{{cite web|url=http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=DD8767|title=La casa 5 (1990)|access-date=April 25, 2019|language=Italian}}}}

| story= {{plainlist|* Claudio Fragasso

Sarah Asproon{{sfn|Curti|2019|p=133}}}}

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| starring= {{plainlist|* David Brandon

Gene Le Brock
Barbara Bingham}}

| music= Carlo Maria Cordio

| cinematography = Larry J. Fraser

| editing= Kathleen Stratton

| studio= Filmirage

| distributor= Artisti Associati International

| released = {{Film date|1990}}

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| country= Italy

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Beyond Darkness ({{langx|it|La Casa 5}}) is an Italian horror film written and directed by Claudio Fragasso.{{cite web|work=PopMatters|title=Books of the Dead: The Followers and Clones of 'The Evil Dead'|author=J.C. Maçek III|date=2013-04-26|url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/170551-books-of-the-dead-the-followers-and-clones-of-the-evil-dead/}}

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

David Brandon as George
Barbara Bingham as Annie
Gene LeBrock as Peter
Michael Stephenson as Martin
Theresa Walker as Carole
Stephen Brown as Jonathan
Mary Coulson as Bette

References

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|last=Curti

|first=Roberto

|title=Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970–1979

|publisher=McFarland

|isbn=978-1476629605

|year=2017

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|last1=Kinnard

|first1=Roy

|last2=Crnkovich

|first2=Tony

|title=Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990

|publisher=McFarland

|isbn=978-1476662916

|year=2017

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