| Buio Omega | |
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| Directed by | Joe D'Amato |
| Produced by | Marco Rossetti |
| Written by | Ottavio Fabbri Giacomo Guerrini |
| Starring | Kieran Canter Cinzia Monreale Franca Stoppi |
| Music by | Goblin |
| Cinematography | Joe D'Amato |
| Editing by | Ornella Micheli |
| Release date(s) |  November 15, 1979 |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country |  Italy |
| Language | Italian (English dub) |
Buio Omega, aka various names including Beyond the Darkness, is a horror/exploitation film directed by Joe D'Amato, and released in 1979.
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Premise
The film describes a taxidermist orphan who gradually becomes a psychotic killer with the encouragement of his lusty older housekeeper, who disposes of the bodies.
Plot
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Anna Völkl, the fiance of taxidermist Frank Wyler, dies of an illness in the hospital. But she was really killed via a voodoo doll that was handled by orphan Frank's jealous housekeeper, Iris. The housekeeper then breast feeds him for erotic lactation comfort. Yet still stricken with grief, Frank digs up Anna's body and preserves it per his profession so that he can be with his lover forever.
Frank later picks up a stoned hitchhiker to his home. When she spots Anna's corpse, she panics and a struggle ensues. Frank tortures her before chocking her to death. When Frank is not satisfied, his housekeeper tries to comfort him once more, this time with a handjob.
A few days later, a jogger twists her ankle around Frank's home and he invites her in. They have sex on his bed, until Frank can't resist showing off Anna's corpse right next to them. Once more a fight ensues. Frank bites her neck and eats chunks of flesh. She survives, but dies via incineration.
The housekeeper invites her old, eccentric relatives for dinner and announces her engagement to Frank. Yet Frank thinks otherwise and leaves her humiliated. After various detectives secrety search the house, Frank picks up a woman at a disco. Fortunately for her, Frank just sends her off due to the arrival of Anna's twin sister Elena. She faints on seeing Anna's corpse, and the housekeeper approaches her with a knife before Frank interferes.
The housekeeper therefore decides to attack Frank instead, with Elena's fate on the line.
Critique
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Although D'Amato had directed several Horror films in the past, Buio Omega is the first of those films to focus more on the horrorific elements and less on the erotic. He had been known to do this in his Emanuelle films, which featured actress Laura Gemser. D'Amato continued this focus on the horrorific in 1980 with his film Antropophagus.
External links
Buio Omega at the Internet Movie Database
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