The sequel craze of the Seventies has here reached the point of certifiability: this movie has nothing whatever to do with the original Beyond the Door, but for marketing reasons it is smarter to pretend otherwise. Cult director Mario Bava, an unpretentious surrealist, creates a nasty atmosphere with a haunted suburban house, a vengeful ghost, a series of nightmares, and a telekinetic seven-year-old whose amorous impulses toward his mother ("A big boy like you, and you still want to sleep with your mama!") are re-directed into murderous ones. It is mostly pretty diffuse and dull, but it gets quite intense at the finish -- especially a perfectly angled and expertly timed shot in a hallway that enables a tiny tot to change right before your eyes into his father's ghost and, in the process, make you leap right out of your socks. With Daria Nicolodi. (1977) — Duncan Shepherd
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