Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) circumstances and remote settings to assert power over others. It is widely believed that Conrad drew influence from these characters, as well as Stevenson's plot lines, when writing "Heart of Darkness". In the 1958 loose adaptation for the CBS television anthology series "Playhouse 90" Kurtz was played by Boris Karloff. This version uses the encounter between Marlow and Kurtz as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz's adopted son. Francis Ford Coppola's acclaimed Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now" (1979) centers on the protagonist's mission to find and kill the renegade Colonel Kurtz (played by
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