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In 1927, a band of angry townsfolk travel deep into the Louisiana Bayou to destroy an Satanic painter named Schweik. In an isolated Gothic hotel basement, they chain-whip, crucify, and shower the warl... read more read more...ock in a flesh-emulsifying liquid. But they are too late. Schweik had already opened one of the seven dread gateways to Hell beneath the eerie hotel. Many years later, Liza (Catriona MacColl) comes to Louisiana to claim her inheritance: Schweik's Seven Doors Hotel. With the help of the hotel's longtime housekeeper and her caretaker son, Liza begins renovations on the property. But their work is plagued by bizarre and supernatural events: a normally sure footed painter falls off a scaffolding, a plumber has his eyes inadvertently poked out, an architect researching the hotel's origins is attacked by a band of blood-sucking tarantulas and, ultimately, the housekeeper is impaled on an unfortunately placed spike.

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Directed by: Lucio Fulci

Release Date: April 22, 1981

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  • DragonEyeMorrison
    October 15, 2011
    DragonEyeMorrison
    Most movie critics are going to tell you that the Beyond has a plot that makes no sense, that the acting is hit-and-miss, that this is wrong, and this and that. What they might not tell you is that the Beyond is one of the most effectively atmospheric horror movies ever made. The... read more truly surreal nightmarish touch from good ol Fulci elevates this into another level. Many horror movies try way too hard these days, they should just come back to this one and study it again and again. This is how you do it, real horror doesn't need explanations, or even motivations. Just a strong sense of the innevitable, which is what The Beyond has.
  • matertenebraum
    April 14, 2011
    matertenebraum
    Louisiana, 1927. A group of men storm a local hotel on the edge of a swamp and burst into a painters named Schweick (Antoine Saint-John) room, who they believe is a warlock. They drag him down to the basement, Schweick warns them that the hotel was built over one of the seven gat... read moreeways to hell, and that only he can protect them from it. They ignore him and brutally beat him and crucify him. Skip forward to 1981. New Yorker Lisa Merril (Katherine MacColl) inherits the now abandoned and run down hotel, and two creepy helpers, the housekeeper Martha (Veronica Lazar) and a general handyman Arthur (Gianpaolo Saccarola). She decides to repair the place and re open it. Unfortunately thing start to turn sour almost immediately, one of the painters falls off his second floor scaffolding. The local plumber Joe (Giovanni De Nava) finds Schweick's rotted corpse behind a wall in the flooded basement, Schweick then gouges Joe's eye out. And Lisa is warned by a blind woman Emily (Sarah Keller) that she is in great danger and must leave. Dr. John McCabe (David Warbeck) and his assistant Dr. Harris (Al Cliver) examine both Joe's and Schweick's corpses. Interested McCabe becomes involved with Lisa and they both start to investigate the strange events. Soon they realize the gateway to hell under the hotel has been opened and zombies are appearing everywhere. Thats the best I can sum the plot up, what plot there is in this film anyway.

    Directed by Lucio Fulci, this was the third of his zombie quartet, starting with Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979), City of the Living Dead (1980), this and finally the House by the Cemetery (1981). I think their all a bit overrated but decent solid horror all the same. Acting is OK and Katherine MacColl makes an attractive damsel in distress. David Warbeck is OK as the hero, and I liked Jill (Maria Pia Marsala) as the freaky possessed kid. The rest of the cast are just there to be killed in various gore soaked ways, nothing more. Antoine Saint-John in the opening sequence is chain whipped, crucified and has acid thrown into his face all in graphic detail. People have their eyes poked out, more faces are melted with acid, a great scene where a woman has her throat torn out and her ear bitten off by her dog, loads of rotting zombies appear, guys are impaled with shards of glass and little girl Jill has the top of her head blown off. Fulci and special effects man Giannetteo De Rossi don't shy away from the red stuff, thats for sure. For the most part the make up effects are impressive, the best being when Jill gets shot in the face, the worst is when Martin Avery (Michele Mirabella) is attacked by spiders. Not only do the spiders make a squeaking noise for some reason, but the fake spiders look awful as does the fake head which they bite and pull apart, Martin's tongue being bitten looks good though, just a shame about the rest of the scene. It has nice clear, crisp and colourful photography by Sergio Salvati. It's main draw back is the script credited to Fulci, Dardando Sacchetti and Giorgio Mariuzzo, it's bizarre, surreal and doesn't really make any sense which is a problem. There are also big lapses in logic, like the end where Warbeck discovers the only way to kill the zombies is to shoot them in the head, but he still insists on shooting them anywhere but their heads. Overall I liked it, it's stylishly made and features plenty of blood, gore and violence. I just wish the story was a little clearer and things didn't just happen for no apparent reason. Certainly worth watching if your a gorehound or horror fan. Make sure you watch one of the various uncut widescreen DVD's that are available, the only way to appreciate it properly in my opinion. Recommended.
  • ariuza1
    January 26, 2011
    ariuza1
    L'Aldila/The Beyond is the film that brought interest in the cinema of Lucio Fulci. I became a big fan of his work after watching this movie. Have seen a good portion of his films since. And this film is also the reason us fans dub him as the "Italian Miyazaki".

    L'Aldila was p... read moreart of a trilogy called the 7 gates trilogy. This started with The Gates of Hell(1980), continued with this film, and was to end with The Beyond 2. Unfortunately, this trilogy would never be completed. This is a shame because I would have loved to see that film to know if it was good as the first two movies of the trilogy. The original intentions of The Beyond are different from the final results. This was because of budget and time restrictions. I wonder how much better the pic might have been with a modest budget and a little more time.

    The make up effects is one of the film's best features. Despite the low budget, Giannetto De Rossi's effects are spectacular. The effects are done with flair and pizazz. Giannetto De Rossi did his best when working with Fulci. The effects for the death of Joe the Plumber are very good. The best effects in the film is the scene involving the young girl near the end.

    The cinematography is spliced with atmosphere and style. Sergio Salvalti contributes to the film's gothic flavour. The cinematography contains a dreamish flow that makes the film beautiful. The score is one of my favourites for a horror film. The score fits perfectly with the scenes in the film. As good as anything done for Argento by Goblin.

    The Beyond is an 'Absolute Film' where image and sound are the most important part of a film. On the making of this, Fulci once said, ("My idea was to make an absolute film, with all the horrors of the world. Its a plotless film, there's no logic to it, just a succession of images"). This is something that people who hate the film don't and will never understand. Many people do not like this because of its nonlinear structure. He also said, "In Italy we make films based on pure themes, without a plot and The Beyond like Inferno refuses conventions...people who blame the The Beyond for its lack of story don't understand that it's a film of images, which must be received without any reflection". Receiving a movie like this without any reflection is a hard thing for many film goers to do.

    The works of Antonin Artoud and H.P Lovecraft play a major influence on The Beyond. Fulci was inspired by this controversial French artist. The ideas of Artoud are present in most of Fulci's work. Schweick the painter bears a little resemblence to Antonin Artoud. Artoud was the founder of "The Theater of Cruelty" which talked to "Restore to the theater a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigor and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based on must be understood". This idea can be applied to The Cinema and this film.

    The comment "Violence is Italian Art" by Fulci is relative to the movie and the history of Italian art. Its one of the few films where atmosphere and gore mix well together. Has good moments of spirital horror. The atmosphere is eerie and terrifying. The gory set pieces are satisfying. The surreal atmosphere and bloody imagery is what makes the film a classic.

    The Beyond will never be a mainstream favourite because its not for everyone. The themes are well written by Dardano Sacchetti. Catriona MacColl and David Warbeck are very good in the roles of the heroine and hero. Veronica Lazar from Inferno(1980) is sinister as Martha. The director did a great job with the little resources that he had to work with.

    The ending will haunt your dreams for days to come even though we can't tell if it is a happy ending or not.....

    I think by the end is that it's "Dreamlike" and wired as hell but still it's his best.
  • FilmFanatik
    December 26, 2010
    FilmFanatik
    A grotesque and intense piece of celluloid from one of the kings of Italian gore. The plot outline itself doesn't really make a whole lot of sense and the acting is only so-so, but it doesn't really matter. Atmosphere, effects and presentation are all in fine Fulci form.
  • webalina
    December 4, 2010
    webalina
    I finally have been initiated into the gruesome world of Lucio Fulci. This film was by turns a little scary, VERY disgusting and eventually laughable. The murders were so over the top (crucifixion, acid to the face, tarantulas who eat people!?!) and so obviously fake that the cre... read moreepiness was finally overridden by snickering. There were lots of other problems, but my ultimate problem with the film is that if you're going to make a movie about gateways to hell, there should be a little more hell in it. But for what it is, I guess it wasn't bad. OH, and an open note to Mr. Fulci...PEOPLE DON'T HAVE BASEMENTS IN NEW ORLEANS! New Orleans is below sea level. They don't even bury their dead underground!
  • TheDudeLebowski65
    November 14, 2010
    TheDudeLebowski65
    Lucio Fulci's atmospheric Horror masterpiece remains one of the best films that the Godfather Of Gore has directed. The Beyond is Fulci at his peak and delivers an unrelenting assault of blood and gore. The Beyond features some of the best sequences of gore of the Maestro's caree... read morer. The story as well is very terrifying and is unique. Of all the Lucio Fulci films that I have seen, The Beyond has the best, most detailed story that Fulci has ever written. Many people have said that they were confused by the story, but it's the type of story that you need to pay close attention to get. The reason the film can be a bit crazy and confusing is because The Beyond has a surrealistic nightmarish story. The film does tend to go off the deep end at times, but one thing to keep in mind is that this is a work by Lucio Fulci, everything he has previously done has been over the top. The Beyond is one of his most solid, most confident films. The thing that makes this film so haunting and terrifying is the surrealistic nature and essence of the film. The Beyond is the culmination of Fulci's talents, this is his most confident work. He's made another horror film after this, The House By The Cemetery, but that film doesn't come close to this terrifying masterwork of surrealistic Horror. This film features the best gore effects of Fulci's great career and the setting for the story is terrific. A haunted Hotel in Louisiana is the seventh gateway to hell? how inventive can you get? Don't believe the critics, all of them don't get a superb work of horror like this. They just don't see what is so great about it, I can tell you that this is one terrific and well told horror film with great gore effects that all horror fans should watch. Fulci masterfully combines many previous horror themes to create something very interesting and terrifying on screen. One of the best Italian Horror films.
  • DrBenway
    April 29, 2010
    DrBenway
    I won't pretend to be a card carrying member of Fulci's Die Hard Fan Club, but I've seen enough of his films to say that this is a nice achievement. The film is like a black magic pop-up book with creepy images and dense atmosphere. As far as the acting and suspense go...well,... read more it's a Fulci film. If you want suspense, rent an Argento film. Fulci is here to deliver gore in a skillful way. He works on a very abstract level that positions itself over narrative logic.

    Included is a good old fashioned moody score, complete with a bleak ending to remind the viewer they are watching a horror film, in the true sense of the genre. Avoid the butchered R-rated version of this film entitled "Seven Doors of Death", which has much of the gore edited out or you'll end up watching a Fulci film for the wrong reasons.

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  • ythelastman89
    January 28, 2010
    ythelastman89
    I think it's actually Lucio Fulci's best shot film. However, it is still completely crazy and ridiculous like all of his other films. The eye gouging trademark is in there, bizarre spider killings and a zombie killing rampage at the end to ensure you that you're getting the full ... read moregrind-house experience. I think most of Fulci's work is, to me, the ultimate b-movie collection. None of his movies make sense and they always have pointless moments of violence and nudity. This particular film is almost as odd as Zombi 2, if not more so.
  • puffchunk
    October 16, 2009
    puffchunk
    This is how horror movies should be!
  • adammahler1
    August 20, 2009
    adammahler1
    another Tarantino pick, the cinematography & atmosphere are great; some parts are really bad; the whole thing is hypnotically disgusting

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Critic Reviews

Dennis Schwartz
July 2, 2011
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Senseless and plotless horror pic, that's filled with a series of tableaux gimmicky sadistic gore. Full Review

Tim Brayton
August 30, 2010
Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

The masterpiece of the great Italian horror director Lucio Fulci. Full Review

Fernando F. Croce
November 15, 2009
Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

While reviewers complain about dialogue and plot, Fulci does his best work in nauseous moods and textures Full Review

Steve Biodrowski
September 6, 2008
Steve Biodrowski, Cinefantastique

Lucio Fulci's undead epics, with their over-the-top depictions of graphic violence, fall squarely into this splatter category, or so it seems, at first. Actually, there is a little something more goin... Full Review

Staci Layne Wilson
February 20, 2006
Staci Layne Wilson, About.com

Fulci's signature grand-gugnal gore drips in almost every scene. Full Review

Nick Schager
September 3, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

Atmosphere alone can't keep this creaky pseudo-zombie flick from rapidly decaying into confusing, derivative tedium. Full Review

Ken Hanke
December 10, 2003
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Fulci opus with inexplicable cult following.

Ed Gonzalez
November 5, 2002
Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

Even by Argento standards, Fulci's film is nonsensical to the point of distraction. Full Review

Ed Gonzalez
May 4, 2001
Ed Gonzalez, Apollo Guide

It's never clear what's happening, where the characters are running to, why corpses are hooked up to EKG machines and why "imaginary" characters are prone to the sufferings of the flesh. Full Review

Bob Graham
January 1, 2000
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle

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