Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

trashgang This is the last in the Casa franchise and it surely shows why. this is really a turkey but somehow you keep watching to see what happens next. It's even so worse that the last shot just before the end credits aren't correct, you know what should happen but don't worry, if you wait until the end credits are over your wish will come true. The acting is so over the top, really wooden and normally flicks with haunted children should be scary but here it's just laughable. Nevertheless, all imaginable effects are used. Mostly the very cheap ones, scary, sigh, lights and smoke, an annoying score, bad make-up. Really, a must see to believe but that's the problem, it hasn't had a proper release and is only available on VHS. It was made in 1990 so for the effects available then this is really a turkey. And each time you think, ahaa the end is coming something new happens. And still I'm glad that I have seen it...

massimoperloni House five, is not the continuation of the other houses. House five, extension for the first time a true fact of property, recognized from the sacred Roman church. The history is draft from the book " the 100 cases of demonic property recognized from the Holy Roman Church of father "Malachia" For the first time in a property film, the splitting of the two children is looked at entirety, l' real spirit and that possessed. An exchange of the two children happens, with the parents and its family goes that mistaking. The child will be saved with exorcism, from a priest who had lost the faith, tormented and scared, from the demon and now, alcoholic victim . This priest will return to the faith, during l' exorcism. It had lost the faith in order to have confessed a modern witch, condemned to the capital punishment on the chair electrical worker, in reality the woman was possessed from a demon between most frightful: Ameth, that it eats the spirits of the children in order to become stronger. (it is in the Bible) to the history appeals to me so much, for the depth. The film is to low cost, but the special effects beautiful because are made as years were made ago, when the computer did not exist. The film is of 1990 and task that would have to be praised who little succeeds with money to make a film that however it scares, thanks to the many ideas of the script and to a good direction. Task is easy to make good films when many money is had. The scene that it has hit to me more, is that of little the child, that it dreams to wake up sluice in a coffin, where, the family sees dead to it, but it is alive, she screams, and she screams, but she feels it to nobody, then encircle it to the witches, making them a magical deceit, in order to steal them spirit. The witches are devout people to Ameth. Much fear and much Gore. The Louisiana still renders more l' atmosphere. To see and to appreciate also for the suspense in the long, from the taste of the past, without those movements of movie-cam, too much fast times and you deprive of sense, within the history and in the turned scene, only used for giving rhythm, to case. The atmospheres thriller the fear, manifest in the waits. For this ballot 10/10. To revalue

Nightgaunt Well, I'm not going to talk much about that movie, cause I agree in most point with the comment by Zantara, but I just had another thing concerning the Title. &The original title "La Casa 5" an the american subtitle just can't beat the german title "Horror House 2". I never saw a movie called "Horror House" in any video-tape library or on TV an no german homepage knows the first part. So if you think calling it House 5 is ridiculous, nope, german video producers beat that by far.

Zantara Xenophobe This review contains some minor SPOILERS, so do not read it if you do not wish to have some points revealed to you. If you came across this title on this site and were like me, you were probably left scratching your head as to how `Beyond Darkness' could be subtitles `House 5.' This movie was made in 1990 and `House IV' was made in 1992. Well, it seems like someone just slapped the `House' label on to try and hide the fact that nothing else about it is interesting. This is nothing like the other `House' movies (though none of them are alike in any way either) and should not be thought of as part of the series. Instead, think of it as just another boring horror movie that you need to avoid. It was, after all, made by the same writer/director that brought us the universally panned `Troll 2.' To be fair, I believe that this movie has positive intentions. But good intentions do not necessarily make a good movie. The movie begins with a priest hoping to hear a woman about to be executed give her soul to God. This woman, who murdered a bunch of children in a house, is either possessed or is simply crazy. It is hard to make that out. She tries to tempt the priest by telling him to repent his religion to learn more about her evil Satanic ideas. He almost does it, and is thus haunted throughout the rest of the film by this guilt. When the woman is put in the electric chair, the priest sets out for the house in question faster than you can say "The Horror Show." Apparently, the house is on the site of some ancient place where witches were once burned at the stake. While he is on his way there, a second priest is moving into the house with his family, and he was given the house by the local head priest, who knows of the evil and deliberately sends the priest and his family there to stop the evil. Huh? Well, they move in and are visited by evil spirits faster than you can say "Amityville Horror." After the first few spooky happenings, one of which would really freak you out if it happened to you (but doesn't freak you out here), you would think the family would take the hint and get out of there faster than you can say "Poltergeist." But no. Then your conflict, when the ghost of the executed woman and her laughable spirit helpers kidnap the priest's son, would not exist. When the first priest arrives, the two holy men join forces and set about to rid the house of evil faster than you can say "The Exorcist." Yada yada yada.There's plenty more other than a standard plot that makes `Beyond Darkness' a lousy movie. First, the special effects are bad. I tend not to stress this sort of thing, but when a script calls for something that a budget just can't handle, it's time to either change the script or not do the movie at all. Most of the effects here are done in smoke-filled rooms to mask their low quality. This, however, just gets really bothersome. And boring. Another annoyance is the abundance of stereotypes. The entire family is so pious that you see right through their one-dimensional characters. And their acting of these stereotypes is really bad. Rarely do filmmakers find good child actors, and here they scraped the bottom of the desperation barrel. The boy playing the son is so horrid that you really hope the witch goes through with the sacrifice. But the worst thing about the film is how slow it all moves. Not once does the pace ever pick up, especially when the priests are battling the evil. I kid you not, I watched the scenes where the priests are walking through the house in fast forward and they were still moving like snails. Thus the only things that this movie has to offer are good intentions. I can get those from watching `House II,' which, unlike this movie, is fun to watch and in no need of renovation. Zantara's score: 2 out of 10.