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Beyond The Door II

1976, Movie, NR, 92 mins

Beyond The Door II: Review

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Made in Italy in 1977 and marketed in the US as a sequel to BEYOND THE DOOR, this film is wholly original and has nothing to do with Ovidio Assonitis' EXORCIST/ROSEMARY'S BABY rip-off BEYOND THE DOOR, save for the fact that young actor David Colin, Jr., is in both films. The last feature directed by the legendary Mario Bava, this movie finds a young boy (Colin) with supernatural powers living with his mother, Nicolodi, who is quietly insane. Although it's assumed that the boy's father, a drug addict, committed suicide, it is later revealed that Nicoldi killed her husband, and her now second husband, Steiner walled up the body in the basement. The boy, however, may be possessed by his dead father and uses his powers to drive his mother slowly into dementia by coming on to her sexually and making her see rotting hands grabbing at her from unexpected places. As with any Bava film, the nonsensical plot is secondary to the dazzling visuals that accompany it. Bava was a master of cinematic manipulation, and mood is everything here, from the mobile camera to the atmospheric soundtrack. Continuing to explore his perverse obsessions (mainly sex and death) to the end, Bava holds nothing back and even manages to coax a strong performance from female lead Nicolodi. Codirecting here with his son, Lamberto, who would later go on to make DEMONS (1985), Bava would only have time to make one more film, a made-for-television movie, before his death in 1980. leave a comment
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