The Beyond: All The Colors of the Dark (1972)

While the Satanic Panic didn’t completely enthrall Americans until the 1980s, occult-themed paperbacks and their ensuing film adaptations proliferated throughout the late 1960s into the 1970s. The changing social tide—women’s lib, class struggles, youth subcultures, the fight against censorship in post-war Italy, and Italy’s period of socio-political unrest known as the “Years of Lead”—spurred an anxiety that…