Beyond Darkness (1990)

Simply A Masterpiece

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Blistering performances.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

This is the last in the Casa franchise and it surely shows why. this is really a turkey but somehow you keep watching to see what happens next. It's even so worse that the last shot just before the end credits aren't correct, you know what should happen but don't worry, if you wait until the end credits are over your wish will come true. The acting is so over the top, really wooden and normally flicks with haunted children should be scary but here it's just laughable. Nevertheless, all imaginable effects are used. Mostly the very cheap ones, scary, sigh, lights and smoke, an annoying score, bad make-up. Really, a must see to believe but that's the problem, it hasn't had a proper release and is only available on VHS. It was made in 1990 so for the effects available then this is really a turkey. And each time you think, ahaa the end is coming something new happens. And still I'm glad that I have seen it...

House five, is not the continuation of the other houses. House five, extension for the first time a true fact of property, recognized from the sacred Roman church. The history is draft from the book " the 100 cases of demonic property recognized from the Holy Roman Church of father "Malachia" For the first time in a property film, the splitting of the two children is looked at entirety, l' real spirit and that possessed. An exchange of the two children happens, with the parents and its family goes that mistaking. The child will be saved with exorcism, from a priest who had lost the faith, tormented and scared, from the demon and now, alcoholic victim . This priest will return to the faith, during l' exorcism. It had lost the faith in order to have confessed a modern witch, condemned to the capital punishment on the chair electrical worker, in reality the woman was possessed from a demon between most frightful: Ameth, that it eats the spirits of the children in order to become stronger. (it is in the Bible) to the history appeals to me so much, for the depth. The film is to low cost, but the special effects beautiful because are made as years were made ago, when the computer did not exist. The film is of 1990 and task that would have to be praised who little succeeds with money to make a film that however it scares, thanks to the many ideas of the script and to a good direction. Task is easy to make good films when many money is had. The scene that it has hit to me more, is that of little the child, that it dreams to wake up sluice in a coffin, where, the family sees dead to it, but it is alive, she screams, and she screams, but she feels it to nobody, then encircle it to the witches, making them a magical deceit, in order to steal them spirit. The witches are devout people to Ameth. Much fear and much Gore. The Louisiana still renders more l' atmosphere. To see and to appreciate also for the suspense in the long, from the taste of the past, without those movements of movie-cam, too much fast times and you deprive of sense, within the history and in the turned scene, only used for giving rhythm, to case. The atmospheres thriller the fear, manifest in the waits. For this ballot 10/10. To revalue

"La Casa 5"/"Beyond Darkness" is another lamentable horror film from Claudio Fragasso,the man behind incredibly awful "Troll 2"(1990).The plot is simple:a priest(Gene Le Brock)and his family move into new house.Unfortunately the house was built over the place where twenty witches were burnt at the stake.Soon the terror begins..."La Casa 5" is a typical Italian possessed house horror which owes a lot to "The Amityville Horror"(1979).The script is mediocre,the acting is horrible and there is absolutely no gore.The special effects are also pretty bad including a possessed radio and flying cleaver.The film is not as painful as "Troll 2",but it's close.Skip it.My rating:4 out of 10.

Well, I'm not going to talk much about that movie, cause I agree in most point with the comment by Zantara, but I just had another thing concerning the Title. &The original title "La Casa 5" an the american subtitle just can't beat the german title "Horror House 2". I never saw a movie called "Horror House" in any video-tape library or on TV an no german homepage knows the first part. So if you think calling it House 5 is ridiculous, nope, german video producers beat that by far.