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Lucio “King of the Eyeball Gag” Fulci made his name with a series of gory, gooey horror epics, and The Beyond stands above all as his outre masterpiece. The largely incoherent plot has something to do with a turn-of-the-century curse and a doorway to hell in the cellar of an old New Orleans hotel. Fulci shows his usual sensitivity with wooden acting, clumsy dialogu, and buckets of oozing blood and pus, but don’t let that get in the way of enjoying this mad tale of zombies from hell invading Earth and eating their way through a cast of humans: crucified martyrs, blind visionaries, creepy hotel handymen, befuddled cops, and a plucky pair of heroes desperately fleeing a horde of hungry undead. The blood-red art direction is eerily beautiful, and Fulci’s relentless long takes, punctuated by jolting shock cuts and eruptions of grotesqu violence, create a mood of sheer paranoid horror right down to the final, mind-bending image. And don’t forget the Fulci claim to fame: eyes are gouged out, eaten away, melted with acid, and (shudder) popped out by a spike through the back of the skull. Yech! If you dare ignore such piddling details as narrative logic and let yourself get carried away on the creepy visuals, it’s a deliciously stylish treat, an edgy bit of gothic gore pitched in all its bone-crunching, flesh-ripping, organ-splatting glory. This sadistic, sanguinary hell-spawn tale is for gore-hounds only.
The DVD features chatty but largely jokey commentary by David Warbeck and Catriona MacColl and an alternate German credits sequnce featuring Fulci’s preferred sepia-tinged prologu (but no alternate footage). –Sean Axmaker
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The Beyond was welcome! You have to see daylight this movie! A outstanding performance by Al Cliver & Laura De Marchi make The Beyond a “must run in” movie!
The spectacular cast includes Al Cliver, Laura De Marchi, Giovanni De Nava, Roberto Dell’Acqua, Anthony Flees. This cast just make The Beyond the more overwhelming!
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