The Beyond (1981)

AKA: 7 Doors Of Death

My rating - 7.5/10

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A young woman inherits a hotel in Louisiana but when people start dying and strange things happen it becomes clear the hotel couid be situated on a gateway to hell!.

Part of Lucio Fulci's supernatural zombie trilogy The Beyond is often cited as being his best movie. If I was going to put the trilogy in order of personal choice then it would be City Of The Living Dead, The Beyond then The House By The Cemetery. Saying that they're all great and I often binge watch all three anyway.

Once again Katherine MacColl is the star, as with the other two, and this time she's joined by the late, great David Warbeck plus many other Italian actors fans will easily recognize from many other great Italian horror films. The gore is great and plentyful and we're treated to faces being melted, two scenes of eye abuse, a dog ripping a womans throat out, a long drawn out spider attack and a young girl having the front of her face blown off. The effects are excellent as always, well, except for the pipe cleaner spiders. They really don't look good!.

The score is great, the acting is good too. I first saw this at the cinema and the downbeat, surreal ending stuck with me for days. This is another Fulci movie I highly recommend to anyone who hasn't seen it before.

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