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RETURN FROM DEATH: FRANKENSTEIN 2000

Ritorno dalla morte

1991 • IT HMDB
January 1, 1991

When a woman is beaten into a coma and saved from being raped by her handyman (Donald O'Brien), the local security force does a cover-up to save the town's reputation and frames the saviour. After he hangs himself, the woman's strange comatose psi-powers revive him from the dead to exact revenge.

Directors

Joe D'Amato

Cast

Donald O'Brien, Cinzia Monreale, Robin Tazusky, Richard Harsh, Dun Dustman, Mark Frank, Mark Quail, Maurice Poli, Massimo Pittarello
Horror

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

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In a small town in the Austrian province, a young woman, assaulted and raped by a group of criminals, falls into a coma. Meanwhile, the woman's dearest friend, an ex-boxer, is killed and his body is taken to the morgue of the hospital where the poor woman is hospitalized. Thanks to her psychic abilities, enhanced by the state of coma, she manages to resurrect the friend and use him to perpetrate a terrible revenge against her attackers. This is the last horror (if we exclude a little-known erotic thriller from 1997 titled "La Iena") directed by Joe D'Amato. The film, starring a decent Donald O'Brien, has more than one nod to Massaccesi's cult movie "Buio Omega": from the setting in an Austrian village, to the presence of Monreale, but it is especially the frequent splatter scenes, including that of a detailed autopsy, that mark the clear parallel with D'Amato's more famous and controversial horror. A decent film that, after a brief presentation at the Fantafestival in Rome, never came out in Italian theaters or on videotape, therefore the only way to find it is to see it broadcast on some local station or in the lineup of some genre festival.