BEYOND the DARKNESS (dvd) *NEW* and similar items

Brand new factory sealed dvd is Out Of Print (OOP) in all formats. From cameraman turned director Aristide Massaccesi known here as Joe D' Amato. Kieran Canter stars as Frank, a young taxidermist who inherits a vast fortune after the accidental deaths of his parents, and lives in their secluded villa with his plain, inexhaustibly perverse maid/surrogate mother Iris (Franca Stoppi). Iris hopes to become his wife as well, and hires a witch to inflict a voodoo-induced death on Frank's girlfriend Anna (Cinzia Monreale), who dies during a kiss before they can consummate their love. At Anna's funeral, Frank furtively injects her corpse with a chemical and, later that night, exhumes her body, which he preserves and installs in the bed next to his own. The girl who interrupts his activities is tortured, killed and chopped into bits and his new girlfriend helps him dispose of the sludgy remains by pouring them on the rhubarb patch. Frank's creepy idyll is subsequently complicated by a series of other young women who penetrate his sanctuary and discover too much, causing him and Iris to collaborate in a series of over-the-top murders and sickening disposals that stumbles from shock to shock, including more chopping and eye-gouging, until a climactic orgy of gore brings it to a close.