Verdict
Summary
It’s sort of an Agatha Christie-type whodunit with a distinctly gore and sex-driven pallet, featuring some typically gory scenes and lots of sex and nudity sprinkled throughout. It’s not an especially pleasant or “fun” movie, but for Fulci fans, it’s a late-era treat, putting a particularly pat sense of closure to his career.
Plot:
A patriarch hated by his family dies, leaving his will contested.
Review:
Giorgio (Duilio Del Prete) is a despised man who dies, leaving his family members itching to grab ahold of his estate. His wife (Bettina Giovanni) has trauma and vivid nightmares about the death of her son, who may or may not have been Giorgio’s. His brother and sister in law have reasons to have murdered Giorgio, while his grown daughter Rosy (Karina Huff) might have been the only one to have loved her father, despite his faults. With his considerable will contested, an autopsy is performed to rule out foul play, and while waiting for the results, we discover just how despicable Giorgio’s family (and to some extent, Giorgio as well) are, but the kicker is that while Giorgio is being prepared for burial and eventually laid to rest in the grave, we hear him desperately trying to implore to Rosy to figure out who killed him. When the autopsy results come back in ruling his death as homicide by the long-term effects of ingesting glass particulates, the investigation begins as to who (could be more than one) killed him.
The second-to-last film gore maestro Lucio Fulci directed, Voices From Beyond has the knowing feel of encroaching doom and death permeating from its every pore. It’s sort of an Agatha Christie-type whodunit with a distinctly gore and sex-driven pallet, featuring some typically gory scenes and lots of sex and nudity sprinkled throughout. It’s not an especially pleasant or “fun” movie, but for Fulci fans, it’s a late-era treat, putting a particularly pat sense of closure to his career.
Severin brings Voices From Beyond to 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray in a newly issued edition that also contains the CD soundtrack by Stelvio Cipriani. The transfer is vivid and strong, upgrading previous editions in a way that blows them all out of the water. The package comes with a slipcover and bonus interviews (one is an audio interview with Fulci), and a trailer.
