10 Foreign Language Horror Films Hollywood Doesn't Have The Balls To Remake

Language: Italian

One of the most prolific Italian filmmakers of all time with over 200 pictures to his name, Joe D'Amato contributed to a number of different genres in his lifetime, having written and directed everything from spagehtti westerns and war movies to swashbucklers and fantasy flicks. Despite his varied input, he is still most-known for his unforgiving exploitation films such as 1979's Beyond The Darkness.

The film follows the perverse exploits of taxidermist Frank Wyler, who loses his mind after the sudden death of his fiancee. Unbeknown to Frank, his partner was killed by his voodoo practising maid in an act of jealousy. While he takes comfort from his maid in the form of erotic lactation, he admits that he isn't ready to let his love go and decides to exhume her corpse, disembowel it and stuff it in awfully graphic fashion.

His dead fiancee's corpse becomes a fixture of Frank's home, continuing to share his bed, even when he invites unsuspecting new women into it. Those women are dispatched in typical Euro-gore fashion, with one unlucky victim having her throat torn out and eaten.

The gore on show isn't necessarily the problem here as far as a potential US remake is concerned (although it would take a brave studio to match it scene for scene), the issue is the idea of necrophilia, a taboo that indie filmmakers in the west dare to touch on from time to time but is rarely even alluded to in Hollywood, where risks of such a disgusting nature are rarely worth taking.