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BURIED ALIVE

ALSO KNOWN AS: Beyond The Darkness, Blue Holocaust.

(1979, Italy)

DIRECTED BY: Joe D'Amato (Aristide Massaccesi).

Beginning with a voodoo style death of a woman, Buried Alive would set itself up and deliver to its audience what may be the most gory and brutal Italian horror film ever made. We follow a taxidermist who wishes to make his dead lover into a real trophy. Her lover then exhumes her body and removes her entrails in a most graphic and hideous display. He is caught by a young woman and she is soon tortured, killed and then chopped up and made into fertilizer. The lover then stuffs her and turns her into a wild taxidermy project for his weird sexual appetite. The film pretty much goes from shocking to very shocking. With its infamous scenes of evisceration, torture, cremation and all out grossness this film is only recommended to those with strong stomachs. What may have been an attempt to display necropheliac passions is instead nothing more then all out exploitation designed to gross out its audience and set new standards in total vileness. Something for those who felt Nekromantik was missing something, like a plot!

Review by: Losman

Email: losman@express-news.net

BURIED ALIVE

ALSO KNOWN AS: Beyond The Darkness, Blue Holocaust.

(1979, Italy)

DIRECTED BY: Joe D'Amato (Aristide Massaccesi).

One of D'Amato's most well known gore thrillers is a spin on Psycho with a Norman Bates like character who does taxidermy for a hobby. He also likes stuffing female corpses to use as companions. His name is Frank and he lives in a mortuary like house with a blast furnace and all the right tools for dealing with corpses. His female companion and himself kidnap live victims then dissect them and so fourth.

Quite entertaining film has some nasty realistic effects especially during one scene where Frank eviscerates a girl. There are close-ups of the guts getting cut and hauled out (a real body was used I believe but I'm not exactly sure). There is also a fair amount of nudity which you can expect from a Joe D'Amato offering. One of his better movies to be sure but to be honest the ending stinks. It reminds me of how Pieces ended off. Great Goblin score helps this along as well.

Rating: 3 ½ Skulls

Review by: Richard J. Taylor

Email: rtaylor@roadrunner.nf.net

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