Beyond (1981)

Editor's Note 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.

	Sarah Keller
	Antoine Saint-John
	Veronica Lazar
	Katherine MacColl
	David Warbeck
	Sergio Salvati - Director of Photography
	Vincenzo Tomassi - Editor
	Dardano Sacchetti - Screenwriter
	Fabrizio De Angelis - Producer
	Fabio Frizzi - Composer
	Lucio Fulci - Screenwriter
	Giorgio Mariuzzo - Screenwriter
	Lucio Fulci - Director

Sight and Sound
"[Memorable for] scenes of violence and surrealism, but also for Fulci's original depiction of New Orleans, Fabio Frizzi's haunting score and Sergio Salvati's baroque scope cinematography." 05/01/2011

Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "Set in a Louisiana hotel hiding a gateway to hell, Lucio Fulci's shocker soon abandons narrative coherence for an assault on the senses." 06/01/2011