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Beyond Darkness
Beyond Darkness
Directed by	Claudio Fragasso
Screenplay by	Claudio Fragasso; Sarah Asproon;
Story by	Claudio Fragasso; Sarah Asproon;
Starring	David Brandon; Gene Le Brock; Barbara Bingham;
Cinematography	Larry J. Fraser
Edited by	Kathleen Stratton
Music by	Carlo Maria Cordio
Production; company	Filmirage
Distributed by	Artisti Associati International
Release date	1990;
Country	Italy

Beyond Darkness (Italian: La Casa 5) is an Italian horror film written and directed by Claudio Fragasso.^[3]

Plot

A minister and his family move into a new house, without knowing that it was built over the place where twenty witches were burnt at the stake. Soon the terror begins, with the house terrorizing its inhabitants (a la Amityville Horror) with the elements that lie within the construction, for example; a possessed radio and a flying cleaver. The priest's young son is possessed by the demons of Hell, and he enlists the aid of another, more experienced priest to help him perform an exorcism on the boy, in a sequence very similar to that in The Exorcist. The spirit of a female serial killer also inhabits the house, an ugly baldheaded woman who was electrocuted by the state for murdering ten children and ingesting their souls inside herself. The twenty executed witches also reappear in the form of black shrouded ghosts as the exorcism proceeds.

Cast

David Brandon as George
Barbara Bingham as Annie
Gene LeBrock as Peter
Michael Stephenson as Martin
Theresa Walker as Carole
Stephen Brown as Jonathan
Mary Coulson as Bette

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "La casa 5 (1990)" (in Italian). Retrieved April 25, 2019.
^ ^a ^b Curti 2019, p. 133.
^ J.C. Maçek III (2013-04-26). "Books of the Dead: The Followers and Clones of 'The Evil Dead'". PopMatters.

Sources

Curti, Roberto (2017). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970–1979. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476629605.
Curti, Roberto (2019). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476672434.
Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476662916.
Gregory, David; Caddeo, Federico. "A Hell of a Team". Gorezone. No. 32. ISSN 0896-8802.