#franca stoppi

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Buio Omega (1979)

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Buio Omega (1979)

AKA Beyond the Darkness; Buried Alive; Blue Holocaust

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THE OTHER HELL (1981)

L'altro inferno

Director: Bruno Mattei Cinematography: Giuseppe Beradini

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1980/81

L’altro Inferno

AKA …

English The Other Hell

Cymraeg L'altro Inferno

français L'Autre Enfer

русский Другой ад

Release date

22 January 1981 (Italy)

Registi: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso

Music by Goblin

The film passed Italian censors on July 23, 1980.

The Other Hell was distributed in Italy on 22 January 1981.

Mattei spoke about being influenced by what he described as "Argento's concepts" on the film but that the film was not "an absolute copy of Inferno".

According to Rome's Public Cinematographic Register, filming began on October 23, 1979, and continued through October and November when very little about Argento's film was known except its title and some stills from the set.

It was given a belated limited theatrical run in the United States as Guardian of Hell by Film Concept Group on 13 September 1985.

The film has been released on home video by Vestron Home Video as The Other Hell with an 88-minute running time

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Movie Review | Beyond the Darkness (D'Amato, 1979)

It goes without saying, but Goblin's score for this is great. It's got some of the proggier DNA of their '70s work, but also with a more pronounced sense of funk like they'd hone in their soundtrack for Tenebre, a driving sense of momentum, and lots of top notch computer beeping and booping. There is one track here that sounds like something by Weather Report, and others that sound like you layered Kraftwerk's Computer World on top of an Italo Disco album. Listen, some of this is probably word salad, but I'm bad at discussing music so this is the best you're gonna get. Anyway, because I was listening to the soundtrack yesterday, I got a hankering to revisit this, especially as I've warmed up to or, more accurately, developed a greater fascination with Joe D'Amato.

What I will say about this, aside from praising the soundtrack, is that it has two great bits of casting. One is Cinzea Monreale, as the deceased wife of the protagonist, as well as her twin sister. Monreale in The Beyond imbued her blind oracle with a great deal of warmth, empathy and poignancy despite the movie around her being so punitive in its violence. Here, most of her screentime is spent playing dead and the rest is spent reminding of you of somebody who's supposed to be dead, but I think that innate warmth serves her well in rendering her characters' psychological impact. There isn't much in the way of the warm and fuzzies in this movie, so there's added weight on her shoulders here.

The other is Franca Stoppi as the protagonist's maid, who seems pretty eager to both assist in his crimes and indulge his more outre desires. Stoppi's severe facial features, with her harshly sculpted cheekbones, jawline and nose, serve her well in playing villainous characters. Although speaking for myself, despite her being ugly-coded, I find her quite striking looking. And this is probably TMI, but you're already a few paragraphs deep into this review so fuck you, you're gonna have to deal with it, but because her character is so unabashedly kinky, I found her really hot in this. But yeah, I liked her a lot here and in The Other Hell, which I suspect is as conventionally good as a Bruno Mattei movie gets. She doesn't appear to have too many other movie roles and most of the other notable ones look to be for other Mattei movies, so perhaps I'll have to give them a look at some point.

All that being said, I didn't like this movie very much when I last saw it and I still don't. I really think it comes down to the protagonist. Kieran Canter has some pretty striking eyes, but he plays the protagonist slack-jawed and bozo-like. Given all the weird and kinky and gross things that the character does (gorehounds will appreciate how gnarly the violence is; a bit where he pulls a victim's fingernails had me wincing pretty hard, plus there's some classic D'Amato face trauma), he needs an obsessive, off kilter quality to make him work. The obvious comparison is the nervy energy Anthony Perkins brings to Psycho, which is a clear inspiration for this movie. And I think D'Amato miscalculates with his matter of fact handling of the proceedings. In this respect, this feels like a predecessor to Absurd, with which this also shares the dark and grey countryside ambience, but I think the bluntness and rigidity of the approach works better in the context of a pure slasher, where the clinical look at the violence compounds the sense of brutality. Here, the fact that the violence is coloured by the protagonist's kinks and obsessions means that it begs to implicate us, and the distance with which D'Amato captures it does anything but.

[le-fils-de-lhomme]

Have the Posession girlies seen Franca Stoppi's crazy face?

[marypickfords]

Beyond the Darkness (Joe D'Amato, 1979)

[ladamarossa]

Buio Omega (1979)

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The Other Hell (1981)

Blu-ray April 2017

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Franca Stoppi in Beyond the Darkness (1979)

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Franca Stoppi n The Other Hell (1981)

[weirdlookindog]

Buio Omega (1979)

AKA Beyond the Darkness; Buried Alive; Blue Holocaust

[giallofever2]

1980/81

L’altro Inferno

AKA …

English The Other Hell

Cymraeg L'altro Inferno

français L'Autre Enfer

русский Другой ад

Release date

22 January 1981 (Italy)

Registi: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso

Music by Goblin

The film passed Italian censors on July 23, 1980.

The Other Hell was distributed in Italy on 22 January 1981.

Mattei spoke about being influenced by what he described as "Argento's concepts" on the film but that the film was not "an absolute copy of Inferno".

According to Rome's Public Cinematographic Register, filming began on October 23, 1979, and continued through October and November when very little about Argento's film was known except its title and some stills from the set.

It was given a belated limited theatrical run in the United States as Guardian of Hell by Film Concept Group on 13 September 1985.

The film has been released on home video by Vestron Home Video as The Other Hell with an 88-minute running time

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Beyond the Darkness (D’Amato, 1979)

Those looking for a model housekeeper need look no further than Franca Stoppi in Beyond the Darkness. She’s been with the family for years, never complains about what she’s asked to do, puts up up with the hero keeping his fiancee’s corpse in the house, helps him dispose of murder victims without hesitation, indulges his Oedipus complex and even gives him a handy after a stressful day. This is the best goddamn maid anyone could ask for, and Joe D’Amato has the gall to portray her as a sinister, villainous figure. To be fair, the hero isn’t depicted as the bee’s knees either, given his Oedipal, necrophilic and cannibalistic tendencies (I failed to mention earlier that he eats his fiancee’s organs after he exhumes her) and his unfortunate tendency of murdering people who stumble upon his clumsily guarded secrets. He bears a distracting resemblance to Linda Manz, but this is not the Days of Heaven of Italian splatter movies, or even the Out of the Blue. I’m no expert on D’Amato’s extremely prolific output, but I think Absurd and Anthropophagus show that he knows how to mix ultraviolence with genuine suspense, and Emanuelle in America strings together salacious, sometimes shocking content with solid momentum. I think Beyond the Darkness has the germ of good idea in its demented central relationships, but the forays into slasher-style violence feel contrived and lacking in the tension of those other horror movies, and without a strong central presence like Laura Gemser in Emanuelle, the allegedly shocking content loses some of its punch. The movie briefly perks up when Cinzea Monreale shows up (alive, as she plays a corpse in most of her scenes), whose portrayal of a blind psychic was the most affecting part of The Beyond, but that might be leftover goodwill from a much better movie.

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Franca Stoppi in anything exploitation is usually gold.

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Beyond the Darkness (also known as Buried Alive) will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on July 25 via Severin Films. Infamously accused of using real corpses, the 1979 Italian effort has been newly restored in its uncut form.

The psycho-sexual horror film is directed by Joe D'Amato (Antropophagus) and features a soundtrack by Goblin (Dawn of the Dead, Suspiria). Kieran Canter, CinzIa Monreale (The Beyond), and Franca Stoppi (The Other Hell) star.

In addition to the standard release, Severin is offering a “Necro Bundle” (pictured below) for $55. It includes the Blu-ray as well as Goblin’s score on CD, a 27x39 reproduction of the original US poster, an enamel pin, a T-shirt, and an air freshener.

Read on for the special features.

Special features:

Joe D’Amato: The Horror Experience

The Omega Woman - Interview with actress Franca Stoppi

Sick Love - Interview with actress Cinzia Monreale

Goblin Reborn Perform Buio Omega Live 2016

Locations Revisited

Trailer

Cinzia Monreale and Franca Stoppi star in this psycho-sexual sickie featuring torture, cannibalism, necrophilia, unrequited love and other perversions, totally uncensored and set to a pounding score by Goblin.