"THE ROOM NEXT DOOR" (aka La Stanza Accanto)  is a film about a lawyer who returns to a Iowa town where he must face his past.  The lawyer, Martin Yakobowsky, played by Mark Benninghoffen, realizes that many years ago the murder of his girlfriend and her friends sentenced an innocent man to death for the crime. He begins to investigate and discovers a horrifying truth about himself. The film was written by Pupi Avati and Directed by Fabrizio Laurenti. Produced by Antonio Avati and Aurelio DeLaurentis. Also appearing in the cast of this Duea Film was Mary Sellers and Coralina-Cataldi-Tassoni.

Having the opportunity to work in the sound department on another Avati film was too good an offer to pass up for me - especially a horror film.


         
              Original Distributor Promotional booklet for The Room Next Door.


   


                
                 The camera slate for The Room Next Door - Note the Italian title
                 on the slate "La Stanza Accanto."




                  
                   The Nurse in the film was played by actress Coralina-Cataldi-Tossani.
                    If you are a horror fan then you will recognize her from several
                    Dario Argento films (Opera, Demons 2, and Phantom of the Opera).
                    She also hosted the Giallo Italian tv show with Argento.



                   
                    Jeff Carney, on left with boom mic, during filming of The Room 
                    Next Door at Largomarcinos in Moline, Illinois.      


                                    
                                     Filming in small rooms can lead to putting the
                                     sound mixer in strange places - Here Chat Gunter
                                     finds himself recording out of a bathroom stall. 
                                     Who says you can't multi task!


                                    
                                    The Sound Department recording out of an
                                    elevator.


                         
                          The Duea Film Sound Department - From left Jeff Carney,
                          Chat Gunter, and Raffaele DeLuca.


                         
                          Actor Mark Benninghoffen, with his back to the camera on the left,
                          and Mary Sellers (in white sitting to the left of the camera) wait as
                          filming is about to begin on the climatic scene.

                          
                         
                                                    The Climatic scene - the attack!


                         
                                                   Filming a scene in a cemetery.

     
                        
.                       Chat Gunter, Sound Mixer, listens carefully as filming is about to begin.


                        
                       A tape measure is stretched from the camera lense to the actress
                       to get an exact measurement for the camera focus.



                       
                       Antonio Avati (far left in blue shirt) and Director Fabrizio Laurenti (far right)
                       wait to shoot the scene as cinematographer Cesare Bastelli takes a 
                       light reading in front of the actors.


                      
                                      Sound Mixer Chat Gunter waits for filming to begin.