appears to Stacey in a dream. The couple make love, and Stacey gradually begins to lose her grip on reality. After examining her, doctor Pete Postlethwaite is astonished to find her pregnant. Everyone assumes the child was conceived before Mark’s death, but we know otherwise. When the baby is delivered, nightmarish events mushroom for Stacey, and she realizes that Mark’s clinging ghost wants to pull her out of this world and into the next through their son.
SHOCK (aka BEYOND THE DOOR II), 1979, 92 min. Mario Bava’s last feature film revisits themes first explored in KILL, BABY, KILL and WHIP AND THE BODY as Daria Nicolodi and her child are haunted by the ghost of her first husband, a drug addict.