After surviving a car accident John Savage is on his way home but is instead he is beginning to have strange encounters with a funeral hearse and an unknown beautiful woman (Sandi Schultz) appearing out of nowhere but who seem to know him. He drives around a bit but gets lost in the country and has several near-fatal incidents. He is almost shot by a hunter in the forest, he almost drives off a broken bridge and he is almost steered off the road by the funeral car that seem to follow him. As if this wasn't delirious enough, the coffin in the funeral car seem to have his name on it. By now Savage is completely lost and out of his mind. What does all this mean exactly? Why is his name on the damn coffin?

Door To Silence isn't as bad as its reputation has it to be. It's just that it doesn't look like an Italian film at all. It plays like any ordinary American lowbudget chiller, which is a compliment I think. The story, essentially told in real time, is nothing special, though. It's just a guy who's dead but doesn't know it yet. Sort of like a Twilight Zone episode, only about an hour too long. John Savage mostly drives around in his car looking confused but is getting absolutely nowhere. It's a tired performance by a tired actor, but somehow it adds to the deliriously dull tone of the rest of the film (and if you're watching it with an Italian soundtrack it gets even more delirious), made complete by a bizarre jazz score by Franco Piana. It's all competently done, but it could have been done by anyone. And of course, it isn't any Lucio Fulci movie like we want Fulci movies to be. There are no excessive gore effects, no zombies (if you don't count the sleepwalking Savage) and not much atmosphere to speak of. I still hold Voices From Beyond as the last "real" Fulci flick (although that one was still pretty foggy as well). Door To Silence is mostly for completists only.