Heart of Darkness Karloff) as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz's adopted son. The cast includes Inga Swenson and Eartha Kitt. The most famous adaptation is Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 motion picture "Apocalypse Now" based on the screenplay by John Milius, which moves the story from the Congo to Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War. In "Apocalypse Now", Martin Sheen plays Captain Benjamin L. Willard, a US Army Captain assigned to "terminate the command" of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz. Marlon Brando played Kurtz, in one of his most famous roles. A production documentary of the
Beyond the Darkness (film) the coffin Elena awakens, pushes the coffin open, and lets out a blood curdling scream. "Beyond the Darkness" was shot in two weeks in Bressanone and Campo Tures in late June and early July 1979. It is a remake of the film "The Third Eye". Joe D'Amato remade the film as "Beyond the Darkness", using a script actually written by Mino Guerrini's son, Giacomo Guerrini. On working with D'Amato, actress Franc Stoppi recalled him saying on set that "We're making a movie to make people throw up. We must make 'em vomit!" The special effects for the gore scenes in