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Some movies have a plot and some movies are Italian-style horror. Of national horror cinemas, Italian is, in my opinion, the most overrated. As I have said many a time before, a lot of Italian horror films appear to have been created by someone coming up with a couple of scenes (like the stained glass hanging scene and the barbed wire room in Suspiria) and then loosely tying them together with scenes that may or may not have an actual plot connected to them. With Beyond the Darkness (or Buio Omega if you prefer), there’s not really even that. There’s more an idea of what a couple of characters could be like as a starting point and then, well, that’s it.
I mean this pretty much literally seems to be the case with this film. Someone had an idea for a couple of characters (almost certainly not more than two of them), and then just…built something around them. Rich dude Frank (Kieran Canter, and the character was Francesco in the original Italian) lives a life of wealth and privilege, one he inherited after the death of his parents when he was young. He lives with his wet nurse Iris (Franca Stoppi), who clearly wants more than a nursing relationship with Frank, since he’s young, wealthy, and attractive. Frank, however, wants to marry Anna (Cinzia Monreale). Desperate to prevent this, Iris hires a witch to kill Anna with a voodoo doll, and it works.
