Beyond the Door II

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<div> <B>Cast* </B></div> <div> <B>                Daria Nicolodi (Creepers, Deep Red, Unsane)</B></div> <div> <B>                David Colin, Jr. (Beyond the Door)</B></div> <div> <B>                Ivan Rassimov (Cannibal, Man from Deep River)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Cheap music, three stooges special effects, bad dubbing and a lousy story. Talk about bad dubbing, Marco's note to his mother is not even translated "Una per ogne anno: nonostante tutto sei ancora mia." means One for each year : inspite of everything you are still mine. More dream sequences than you can shake a downward turned thumb at. This is one of those many sequels that have nothing to do with the predecessor, which should have been a plus in this case, but amounted to no perceptible advantage. The more experienced of the Italian directing Bavas squandered his freedom. The film attempts to play with the blurry reality of Dora's madness and Marco's possession, neither of which is clearly established until the end nears, a regrettable procrastination. The kid just keeps doing bad things that always appear to have some telepathic effect on his mother or stepfather which gets very boring after about 15 minutes and goes on well over 60 minutes. Dora's repressed memories of the life and death of her heroine addict first husband emerge as feelings of guilt. A bad trip indeed. The one good looking scare in the miles of dream sequences is so short you can't see it with a pause button. The few really chilling scares at the end, as good as they are, are too little and far too late.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot summary</U></B><B>: 7 year-old Marco and Mama have moved into a new home in the country. Marco explores the cellar which is full of neat old furniture and cobwebs. Marco obsessively wants to know if they are going to live there for the rest of their lives. Mother becomes a bit unsettled when she discovers a sculpture of a hand in the couch. Her case of nerves brings a warning from Bruno "Seven years is a long time, remember our deal?" Still the trio starts a happy existence with a rope swing, garden. The house isn't entirely new for the family. This is the house where Carlo committed suicide seven years ago. As Bruno and Dora make love, the hand sculpture moves and Marco awakes simultaneously shouting "Pigs!". Bruno leaves for New York the next day. Marco pins his mother to the ground in play and groans as if they are having sex. Mother suggests they visit the park. That evening, Marco asks why his real Daddy never comes to visit. Momma explains that he is gone forever. Marco begs to sleep in Mama's bed for tonight.In the middle of the night Marco heads to the window and watches as his swing begins to rock with an invisible occupant. He then climbs back to his mother and strokes her hair and throat with his now large and decayed hand. Bruno returns from his flight and the little family holds a house warming. Guests at the party reveal that Carlo was a heroine addict and Dora may have driven him to commit suicide.Marco glares at his mother and stepfather as they kiss at the party and tells her "Mama, I have to kill you.". As the child swings in the yard, Dora is haunted by the same delusions which drove her previously to madness. As she showers during Bruno's next trip, he spies on her and steals her panties. She then discovers him twice in the cellar which was supposedly locked. The second time he is nearly frozen to death. He lies near death with a fever and as she searches the drawers for a thermometer, she finds her panties ripped to shreds. Just then, Marco begins to mumble in a fever then jumps up shouting "I fooled you!" and runs out to play smashing a picture of Bruno and his Mother on the way. Dora chases him outside and trips on the rake Marco was playing with and sees the decayed hands emerging from the ground, clawing at her bloody ankles. Back in his cellar, Marco cuts Bruno out of the photo. When Bruno puts him to bed that night, we discover that Marco is no longer afraid of the dark. Dora's visions become increasingly more intense, her windows are bricked up like the wall in the cellar, the decayed hand tries to cut her with a carpet knife, and the carpet knife itself flies around the room after her. Marco telekinetically causes the strap on the steel blinds to snap, nearly decapitating Dora. By pushing his swing, Marco causes Bruno's plane to lose control. As Marco continues to stress his mother, a delivery man brings seven roses with a note. His mother smashes him across the face although he denies writing it. Marco is sent to Dora's former psychiatrist. His drawings indicate he could be suffering rejection, particularly from the security of his mother's bed or womb. At home Marco slits a dolls throat which causes his ,other to cut her hand telekinetically. The piano plays and appears to have blood on it, only a rose petal. Dora searches frantically for Marco When she finally finds him, he hands her a new drawing of her with a bloody knife over Carlo's body and asks "Why did you kill papa?" Convinced she killed her husband and is losing her mind and dreadfully afraid of her son, Dora  Marco. Bruno takes a pickax to the bricked up cellar wall</B></div> <div> <B>In the finale, Dora must overcome her fear or succumb to her past.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>