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) Beyond the Darkness (film) Beyond the Darkness () is a 1979 Italian horror film directed by Joe D'Amato. It stars Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi and Sam Modesto. Filmed in two weeks in Italy, "Beyond the Darkness" is a remake of the 1966 film "The Third Eye". It was released in Italy to what Italian film historian Roberto Curti described as relatively poor box office, and was re-released in Italy in 1987 as "In quella casa Buio omega" to associate it with the "La casa" film series. "Beyond the Darkness" is about Francesco, an orphan who inherits a house