''Beyond Darkness'' ( it, La Casa 5) is an Italian
horror film written and directed by
Claudio Fragasso
Claudio Fragasso (born 2 October 1951) is a film director and screenwriter. Fragasso first attempted to make art films in the early 1970s, then became a screenwriter in the Italian film industry in the mid-1970s. Fragasso met director Bruno Matte ...
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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
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. 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
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David Brandon as George
* Barbara Bingham as Annie
* Gene LeBrock as Peter
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Michael Stephenson as Martin
* Theresa Walker as Carole
* Stephen Brown as Jonathan
* Mary Coulson as Bette
See also
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La Casa series - an Italian
rebranding of several otherwise unrelated horror films, including ''Beyond Darkness''.
References
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External links
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Films directed by Claudio Fragasso
Films scored by Carlo Maria Cordio
Films set in the United States
Unofficial sequel films
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