Beyond the Door II (1977) on Netflix
Dora Baldini, her son Marco and her new husband Bruno move into the house she once shared with Carlo, her first husband. Marco is drawn to the basement, and his personality changes.
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- IMDb6.2/105,513 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes63%
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Plot summary
Dora Baldini moves back into her former home, the house from her first marriage to Carlo. Marco, her seven-year-old son, and Bruno Baldini, her new husband, come with her. Carlo, an abusive heroin addict, was believed to have ended his life at sea; his boat was found adrift. Dora suffered a nervous breakdown after it, was placed in psychiatric care, and electroshock treatments left her memory of that time broken. Bruno is a commercial airline pilot and is often away, leaving Dora alone with Marco. Dora pleads with Bruno to leave the house, but he ignores her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Beyond the Door II (1977)
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- Mario Bava let his son Lamberto Bava direct some scenes of Shock himself, working from Mario's storyboards; Lamberto's official credit for directing reads only "Collaboration to the direction".
- One of Shock's promotional posters used artwork adapted without credit from William Teason's cover design for Popular Library's paperback edition of the Shirley Jackson novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
- The score for Shock was the last recording by the group Libra, whose line-up was guitarist Carlo Pennisi, keyboardist Alessandro Centofanti, bassist Dino Cappa and drummer Walter Martino, before the band broke up later that year.
- In 1973, when Mario Bava did pre-production work on the script that became Shock, Mimsy Farmer did a screen test for the leading part, but the project was shelved.
- Shock was the last theatrical feature Mario Bava directed before he died of a heart attack in 1980.
- Mario Bava let his son Lamberto direct some scenes of Shock based on Mario's storyboards; Lamberto's official credit was "Collaboration to the direction".
- In 1973, Mario Bava did pre-production on the original script for Shock and Mimsy Farmer did a screen test for the leading part, but the project was shelved.
- After failed or unfinished films including Rabid Dogs and Baby Kong, Lamberto Bava kept pushing his father Mario into new film work, which led to Shock.
