Beyond the Darkness (film)

Beyond the Darkness
Italian film poster by Renato Casaro [1]
Italian	Buio Omega
Directed by	Joe D'Amato
Screenplay by	Ottavio Fabbri[2]
Story by	Giacomo Guerrini[2]
Based on	The Third Eye by Mino Guerrini Piero Regnoli
Produced by	Dario Rossetti Ermanno Donati[2]
Starring	Kieran Canter Cinzia Monreale Franca Stoppi Sam Modesto
Cinematography	Joe D'Amato[2]
Edited by	Ornella Micheli[2]
Music by	Goblin[2]
Production company	D.R. Per le Comunicazioni di Massa[2]
Release date	15 November 1979 (1979-11-15) (Italy)
Running time	94 minutes[2]
Country	Italy[2]
Language	Italian
Box office	₤153.7 million

Beyond the Darkness (Italian: Buio Omega, lit. 'Dark Omega') is a 1979 Italian exploitation horror film directed by Joe D'Amato. It follows Francesco Koch (Kieran Canter), an orphaned taxidermist who inherits a house in the woods where he lives with his housekeeper Iris (Franca Stoppi), who is determined to become the new owner. After Iris kills his girlfriend Anna (Cinzia Monreale) with a voodoo curse, Francesco steals her corpse from the local cemetery. He then commits murders connected to his enduring passion for her. A local undertaker (Sam Modesto) investigates and meets Teodora (also Monreale), Anna's twin sister.

Filmed in two weeks in South Tyrol, Beyond the Darkness is a remake of the 1966 film The Third Eye. It was released in Italy to what Italian film historian Roberto Curti described as relatively poor box office, and was re-released in Italy in 1987 as In quella casa Buio omega to associate it with the La casa film series.