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The Beyond
2001
A young woman from New York named Liza (Katherine MacColl) inherits a Louisiana motel that has been unoccupied for nearly 60 years. While restoring the old building, many of the workers meet mysterious and untimely deaths, each more ill-fated than the next. Furthermore, Liza is visited by a blind specter named Emily (Sarah .. Read more
| Starring | Katherine MacColl, David Warbeck, Sarah Keller, Antoine Saint John |
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| Director | Lucio Fulci |
| Genres | Horror |
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The Beyond
A young woman from New York named Liza (Katherine MacColl) inherits a Louisiana motel that has been unoccupied for nearly 60 years. While restoring the old building, many of the workers meet mysterious and untimely deaths, each more ill-fated than the next. Furthermore, Liza is visited by a blind specter named Emily (Sarah Keller) who lectures from a 4,000-year-old book of collected prophecies that explains the motel is situated above one of seven portals to hell. As her sanity dwindles, Liza finds some much-needed stability in a local doctor named John McCabe (David Warbeck), who is determined to find a rational explanation for the recent state of affairs. Nevertheless, the protagonists are led through a maze of bizarre confrontations with beings beyond the realm of the living, and into an apocalyptic world of unknown horrors.
THE BEYOND is at once the quintessential Lucio Fulci film and a staple in the overall Italian horror genre. The director's epic masterpiece is a blend of atmospheric surrealism and nightmarish visions (a grisly tarantula attack, flesh-melting acid spills, a softball-sized gun blast through the skull of a young zombified girl, and an eyeball impaling or two) that are definitely unsuitable for those with weak stomachs.
| Starring | Katherine MacColl, David Warbeck, Sarah Keller, Antoine Saint John, Veronica Lazar |
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| Director | Lucio Fulci |
| Studio | STARLITE GROUP |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 23 mins |
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| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 13 Oct 2003 Production year: 2001 |
| Format | DVD |
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19 out of 22 people found this review helpful
Beyond Excellence
May I introduce you to one of the most flat-out insane Italian horror/gore movies to come down the pike. For sheer audacity, this one has no equals (or at least darn few).
The Beyond is the beguilingly simple story of a cute little hotel in the deep South (Southern Louisiana, that is; NOT Southern Italy!) whose basement has an inconvenient little doorway to hell where undead warlocks, zombies, tarantulas and other creepy crawlies lurk to entomb man in darkness, death, despair and other such "D" words.
I tell you, almost wall-to-wall gore FX permeate this film and the blood-drenched sensibilities of director Lucio Fulci make every scene a nail-biter, gut-wrencher, heart-stopper and probably will involve sundry other parts of your body, as well.
Actors MacColl and Warbeck do their stalwart best fighting the undead and let's face it: if you've seen the very end of this film, can you seriously be scared by anything else in life?
Take my advice, kids: rent this movie, buy this movie, do anything you must to get a hold of this film. If you love blood, guts and quicklime, get The Beyond NOW!
Five blood-soaked stars for this beauty. -
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9 out of 13 people found this review helpful
You got to take your Italian with a pinch of salt . . .
Primo Fulciburger stacked with classic ingredients. Inappropriate but insanely cool Fabio Frizzi score, obsessive zoom lens usage, gratuitous Ready Brek gore, zombies, handyman doing Peter Lorre impersonation, brain wave machine, blind girl killed by own guide dog, ginger pigtailed orphan whose head explodes, eyeball gougings (by finger, spider and nail), and a terrific ending with an ace vision of Hell. Katherine MacColl supplies the cheese while David Warbeck thickly slices the ham.
All totally ludicrous of course but so's life. I first saw this on pirate video donkeys ago in what seems like another world, when everything was banned and copies were unwatchable. Thank God for Vipco, although it's a shame this isn't in the proper full widescreen. -
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The Beyond
A young woman from New York named Liza (Katherine MacColl) inherits a Louisiana motel that has been unoccupied for nearly 60 years. While restoring the old building, many of the workers meet mysterious and untimely deaths, each more ill-fated than the next. Furthermore, Liza is visited by a blind ...
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