Ina's Horror Blog

from beyond: dellamorte dellamore (1994) d. michele soavi

While this wasn't my very favorite film, "Cemetery Man" was the perfect way to bid Cheerio and Arrivederci to our British and Italian film class. The trip down the road to the uncanny that started with Dead of Night: (open) ends with another Brit, Rupert Everett, on another precipice...

via:http://mooninthegutter.blogspot.com

Sorry to see it end, as always, but I'm looking forward to my next foray into different worlds of the horror genre (I hear it's Asian Horror) Meanwhile, I have plenty of giallo and Hammer to catch up on!

 And you know I can't resist a disembodied head!

 

La Tête Sans Corps "Lobby Card" (2007) digital print, ina diane archer

 

 

from beyond: the beyond aka e tu vivrai nel terrore! l'aldilà (1981) d. Lucio Fulci.

LET THE EIBON TEMPS ROULEZ!

I like how this trailer pretends that something else significant happens in the movie. It features most of the grossest moments including my favorite(?), the creeping, foamy, bloody-acid Zombie juice.  It's like zombie Mr. Bubble!

 

Scariest parts of the film includes the poster below daring to relate the film in any way to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and that it doesn't realize that in NOLA, as in the Alamo, there is no basement! Oh yes, and the synthesizer (I actually loved that!)

That said, it struck me that there was something in The Beyond that could be used metaphorically to explore a post-Katrina landscape. Intriguingly, Fulci locates (and shoots) the film in Louisiana (featuring a relocated New Yorker!) but otherwise makes nothing of the atmospheric setting or of the local culture or myths--ie voodoo, vampires, carnival or the legacy of slavery.  And Hello, the movie's full of zombies...

love this from: Fulcithon