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 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