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The Beyond, 1981

Starring: Katherine MacColl, David Warbeck

Directed by: Lucio Fulci

Written by: Dardano Sacchetti

Language: Italian, English

Country: Italy

Runtime: 87 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:6.8

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The Beyond can be described as bleak, atmospheric, and scary. The plot revolves around a mercy killing, a supernatural romance, and a plague. The main genres are foreign, thriller, and horror. In terms of style, The Beyond is surreal and is gory. In approach, it is serious. It is set, at least in part, in a haunted house and in a hotel. The Beyond is located in Louisiana. It takes place in the 1980s.

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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 4000-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.