Stalker (1979 film) of the "Time Out Film Guide" has compared "Stalker" to Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", also released in 1979, and argued that "as a journey to the heart of darkness" "Stalker" looks "a good deal more persuasive than Coppola's." As well, "Slant Magazine" reviewer Nick Schager has praised the film as an "endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness". In Schager's view "Stalker" shows "something akin to the essence of what man is made of: a tangled knot of memories, fears, fantasies, nightmares, paradoxical impulses, and a yearning for something that's simultaneously beyond our reach and yet intrinsic to every one
Beyond the Darkness (film) the film were made by using animal intestines, pig skin and a sheep's heart which were provided by an abattoir. The score of the film was by Goblin, who were recruited by producer Dario Rossetti and included music that would later be re-used in "Contamination" and "Hell of the Living Dead". "Beyond the Darkness" was distributed theatrically in Italy by Eurocopfilms on 15 November 1979. The film grossed a total of 153.7 million Italian lire domestically. Italian film historian Roberto Curti stated that "Beyond the Darkness" performed "rather poorly at the Italian box office". The film has been released in