1981 ‘...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà’ Directed by Lucio Fulci
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Catriona MacColl David Warbeck Cinzia Monreale Antoine Saint-John Veronica Lazăr Larry Ray Al Cliver Michele Mirabella Giampaolo Saccarola Maria Pia Marsala Laura De Marchi Calogero Azzaretto Ottaviano Dell'Acqua Roberto Dell'Acqua Lucio Fulci Gilberto Galimberti T. David Pash Tonino Pulci Dardano Sacchetti Amedeo Salamon Sergio Salvati Fernando Arcangeli Armando Tortorici
L'aldilà, Terror nas Trevas, Hotel der Verdoemden, 7 Doors of Death, A Casa do Além, Седмата порта на ада, Rædslernes hotel, I evdomi pyli tis Kolaseos, ビヨンド, Las siete puertas del infierno, Las 7 puertas del infierno, Hotel siedmiu bram, As Sete Portas do Inferno, Geisterstadt der Zombies, Über dem Jenseits, Eibon - Die 7 Tore des Schreckens, Brána do záhrobí, Sedmera vrata pakla, Η 7η Πύλη της Κολάσεως, E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà, Woodoo - Rædslernes Hotel, Die Geisterstadt der Zombies, Η Έβδομη Πύλη της Κολάσεως, El más allá, L'Au-Delà, A pokol hét kapuja, 비욘드, Siedem bram piekieł, Седьмые врата ада, Şeytanın Günü, 鬼驱人
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The Beyond is a hauntingly bizarre slice of weirdo Fulci that leaves us, the viewer, catatonic with an expertly orchestrated journey into the nether regions of chaotic hopelessness... a southern gothic menagerie equal parts disturbing and out there mind boggling—A surrealistic nightmare carnival of doom.
Everything about this nutso movie is perfect for me: The bridge, the sweaty/swampy humidity that cowers over the whole production, the worker falling to his death, fucking spiders, the score, sepia toned basement chaos intro, hospital zombie shootout, the mind-bending finale, and death hotel USA’s hell basement—EVERYTHING... even the cleverly deceptive sluggish pacing that pops up here and there... purposeful if you ask me... only helping the dreamy surreal Fulci logic. Masterpiece if you ask me.
I’ve watched…
The second this movie starts it's already too late. Every moment seems off, wrong, dreadful. Scenes hazily slide into each other and even the spaces between spaces break down. Hell is a steady leak. Doom is slow but inexorable.
Forgive the anachronistic comparison, but this is Fulci's PRINCE OF DARKNESS.
This movie is simply obsessed with squishing people’s eyeballs out of their heads like a Panic Pete stress toy. Lucio Fulci was horrified by the human body, which he depicts here as a wet, mostly hollow container of tendons made of chewing gum and packed with almost magenta blood that shoots out of you like a t-shirt cannon if you so much as scratch yourself. The gore is beautiful and Fulci presents it to you like a cat bringing you a mole. Gruesome but almost sweet. But by the tenth mole you begin to have some questions about the situation with your yard.
There’s a mystery here about a doorway to hell but the characters are constantly and brutally punished…
Fear is a strong emotion, I recall as a teenager walking the curvy serpentine road that led to my home one afternoon when out of no where a speeding car came barreling round the blind corner barely missed penetrating my flesh with its grill! Eyes growing ever wider.. I pretty much had that startled look of a deer caught in the headlights down pat! Left me breathless, the pounding of my heart was mind numbingly loud! Even as I succumbed whole heartedly to the fear that gripped me I couldn't help noticing that I had never felt so alive!
Some people watch these kind of films because they are devoid of all emotions and watch films hoping to trigger that…
"ATTACK DICKY! ATTACK!!!!"
Logic? Fuck logic! The Beyond defies logic, and with that delirious defiance, the feeling is as woozy and nightmarish as can be. Wounds burst with sickly substances, blood flows like a rollicking river after a storm, and the makeup designs are just terrific. Lucio Fulci's southern splatter flick, just like many hallmarks within the Italian horror genre, is flawed in regards to its characterizations and its hilarious English dubbing. It doesn't bother me, especially when the imagery is so eerily lush and the sounds are disgustingly primal. The Beyond is simply a mesmerizing horror tale, and I can't recommend it enough.
Oh, and those fucking spiders. It's some of the goofiest shit I've ever seen in a movie. Fulci, you were a man of wonders.
In 1980, Dario Argento made an ambitious, messy, gory, over-the-top, slightly incoherent pseudo-demonic horror film titled Inferno, the second part of a spiritual trilogy. A year later, Lucio Fulci said “oh fuck you bro, I can top that”, and made a more outrageous version of pretty much the exact same thing, titled The Beyond.
There’s a hotel, a cursed book, meaningless symbolism, blind people, prophecies, and probably a bunch of other stuff that I’m forgetting, all piled into one big excuse to make random, gloriously gory set pieces. Narratively and stylistically, Fulci just kind of throws shit at the wall and hopes that some of it sticks, but this film is still chock full of enough eyeball-gouging, face-melting, spider-devouring, glass-impaling,…
"i'm a doctor, i won't accept irrational explanations."
what if our pictorial perception of hell was not just real, but tangible? it breathed, it bled, it oozed, it smelled, it had textures your senses didn't even know they could recognize? it would probably feel like this movie.
Hard to pick the best part of this movie between: guy gets face eaten by tarantulas, seeing eye dog rips out blind woman's throat, or girl who looks like the Wendy from Wendy's getting her head fully exploded like a pumpkin. Gore masterclass here. This Fulci guy sure had a thing for eyeballs getting destroyed.
Beyond death… Beyond Evil… Beyond the dreaded gates of hell.
Through the Gates of Hell they came… from The Beyond.
Another classic horror/exploitation film that I was finally allowed to see. Thanks to grindhouse releasing! After I was finally able to catch up on the grindhouse classic ,,Thriller: A Cruel Picture’’ yesterday. Thanks to vinegar syndrome. Both films make me very happy and extremely satisfy my taste of film.
It took 10 days for my copy of ,,The Beyond’’ to be delivered to me from the USA, via Sweden and Holland to Germany. Today the treasure was in my mailbox. And my fan heart almost exploded with joy.
Everything just fits together perfectly here. The soundtrack, the effects, the atmosphere,…
Hooptober 8.0, pt.7- In which Ethan goes looking for a book on black magic but accidentally finds Gilles Deleuze instead
6/6 Countries (Australia, Belgium, UK, USA, Japan, Italy) (COMPLETE)
5/8- Decades (1980s, 2010s, 1960s, 1990s, 1970s)
2/4- Films from 1981
1/2- Haunted House Films
6th Lucio Fulci (after Don't Torture a Duckling, A Cat in the Brain, The House by the Cemetery, The Black Cat and City of the Living Dead, followed by A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Manhattan Baby, Murder-Rock: Dancing Death and The Psychic)
Dardano Sacchetti, the primary screenwriter of The Beyond, once opined that the Seven Doors Hotel ‘is an excuse, the characters are an excuse—what counted was the weaving of pure emotions’,…
There is no fire, there is no brimstone. It is not tangible and it is not a place. Hell is a mystic infection, left benign behind a gate of clay. A crude mausoleum of black magic marked only with the symbol of Eibon and containing the swirling pulse of an evil purity clinging to a destroyed corpse defiled by liasons of metal and blood inside the open flesh of gaping wounds, preserved in solidified lime.
"Jesus Christ is the answer" reads the numberplate as the truck pulls into the old hotel. It won't ever be seen again.
The symbol is unearthed in the flood as the false wall is purposefully felled, revealing a hidden tunnel that leads to the end.…
