Monday, August 29, 2011

Oltretomba N. 277: L’Inferno può attendere (Hell Can Wait), published in October, 1984




Cleveland, Ohio. A group of surgeons fail to save the life of a badly beaten man, but somehow, without moving his lips, he still speaks. He claims that while his body is dead, his will is stronger than death. Then he starts spouting obscenities, apparently fantasizing about violenting someone.



Meanwhile a taxi driver suddenly rapes his customer...



...and then dies mysteriously.


This pattern of rape and death keeps repeating itself, and no one knows why, until one night a butcher shoves a salami into his customer.


Nurse Joan hears about this, and remembers the corpse describing a similar act earlier. The dead man has been identified as Peter Kinney, a notorious sex maniac, which raises a terrible question: what if he's not fantasizing at all, what if his undying will is possessing other people?



Joan explains her theory to professor Emerson, but Kinney possesses him and kills her.



Later Kinney is buried, but that resolves nothing. "I'll never stop! NEVERRRR..." he screams from the grave.



The End.

4 comments:

Phantom of Pulp said...

Ah, the significance of a salami in solving sex crimes can not be underrated. Another stunning piece of work, Jaako. I never tire of this material.

Jaakko said...

Thanks :)
What kills me is the title, "Hell can Wait". Is it just my imagination or does the rapist look a little like Warren Beatty?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077663/

Phantom of Pulp said...

Warren Beatty in a couple of pics, but Peter Sellars (from STRANGELOVE) in another. HELL CAN WAIT? For what?

Jaakko said...

For his soul?