Joe D'Amato, (birth name: Aristide Massaccesi) (December 15, 1936 in Rome - January 23, 1999 in Rome) was a prolific Italian filmmaker who directed roughly 200 films, usually at the same time acting as producer and cinematographer, and sometimes providing the script as well. While D'Amato contributed to many different genres (such as the spaghetti western, the war movie, the swashbuckler, the peplum, and the fantasy film), the majority of his films are exploitation-themed pornography, both soft- and hardcore. He is perhaps most well known for his horror film efforts, many of which went on to b...
Beyond the Darkness
Frank is an experimenting taxidermist who decides to try something a bit more difficult when his fiancee dies; overwhelmed with grief, he steals her body from the cemetery, embalms it, and keeps it in his bedroom while his live-in caretaker covers for his secret. But it seems Frank’s bloodlust can’t be sated: he’s not only attracted to his dead wife and the older motherly figure Iris, he also lures other young women back to his house so that he can mutilate and dismember them. Suffice to say that Frank’s a strange guy. A young rich orphan loses his fiancée to voodoo doll mischief on the part of his housekeeper who is jealous of his attentions. He digs his girlfriend up, cleans her out, stuffs her, and puts her in bed at the mansion. Following this, he tries out and disposes of a series of young maidens, trying to find the right replacement for her, and the disapproving housekeeper helps him with the disposals.
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