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The Beyond

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The Beyond	comment	E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà (lit. And you will live in terror! The afterlife), known in English as The Beyond or 7 Doors of Death, is a 1981 surrealist exploitation horror film directed by Lucio Fulci, loosely based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.Set in Louisiana, the film opens in 1927 with a painter named Schweick painting a vision of Hell in the basement of the Seven Doors Hotel when a lynch mob breaks in and murders him with quicklime, believing him to be a warlock. Shifting to the "present day", a young woman from New York named Liza Merril (Catriona Maccoll) has inherited the hotel and is renovating it. The activities of the contractors open the Gate of Hell the hotel is built over. Mysterious deaths and incidents ensue, with Liza and a local doctor encountering a mysterious blind girl who wants them to leave the hotel, a mystic tome called the Book of Eibon that supposedly contains the answers to the nightmare at hand, face-eating tarantulas, Schweick's ghoul, and eventually the rising dead. It ends with the two passing into the afterlife, which is depicted as a blank gray wasteland littered with corpses.The film is one of four films by Lucio Fulci involving zombies, and the second film in his unofficial Gates of Hell trilogy (the others being City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery). The plot is quite muddled and incoherent, with little explanation offered for anything at the end. Fulci said himself that he did not intend for it to be coherent; it was merely supposed to be a succession of surrealist images.Though he originally intended it to be a Haunted House film, executives insisted he add zombies to make it more profitable due to zombie movies being the rage at the time. The film has since became a cult classic for its surrealist imagery, and for the Gorn that got it on Britain's infamous Video Nasties list.Not to be confused with From Beyond.
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The Beyond / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Lucio Fulci appears as a librarian right before the spider kill.
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The Beyond / int_1c21e3fb	type	The Place
The Beyond / int_1c21e3fb	comment	The Place: The title refers to the afterlife in this setting.
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The Beyond / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
The Beyond / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: The main theme has shades of this.
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The Beyond / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Beyond / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The Blackest Heart Media graphic novel, released in 1999 expands upon the backstories of the characters. In particular, Plumber Joe is a child molester who was also carrying on an affair with Martha. Also, Liza's backstory is explained as well.
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The Beyond / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Beyond / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The entire town vanishes and is presumed dead. Liza and John try to flee the zombies, but a door in the hospital leads them to the hotel basement, thus entering the Gate, and being trapped in the Beyond forever.
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The Beyond / int_637b6123	type	Sickening "Crunch!"
The Beyond / int_637b6123	comment	Sickening "Crunch!": Numerous, but they all sound like someone crunching potato chips. The foley work for the tarantulas deserves special mention- their every step sounds like grinding metal.
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The Beyond / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
The Beyond / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: Joe's wife meets her end when corrosive acid falls on her face. In the usual Fulci fashion, it slowly shows off every detail of the acid's damage.
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The Beyond / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
The Beyond / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: Probably the best way to explain what the heck's going on.
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The Beyond / int_72d31973	type	Surreal Horror
The Beyond / int_72d31973	comment	Surreal Horror: Fulci himself said that he wanted the film to be a series of surreal happenings with little connection.
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The Beyond / int_80c45784	type	Beware of Vicious Dog
The Beyond / int_80c45784	comment	Beware of Vicious Dog: The haunted hotel manages to turn the blind woman's dog against her and tears her ear off and rips her throat open.
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The Beyond / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
The Beyond / int_815556aa	comment	Tome of Eldritch Lore: Not the Necronomicon, for once, but instead Clark Ashton Smith's Book of Eibon.
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The Beyond / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
The Beyond / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: Where exactly the two remaining survivors end up in is hard to say.
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The Beyond / int_8e9cf84e	comment	"Blind Idiot" Translation: There's a sign saying "DO NOT ENTRY."
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The Beyond / int_95864e13	type	B-Movie
The Beyond / int_95864e13	comment	B-Movie: Fulci, cheesy acting, zombies, and gore aplenty. Yup, it fits.
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The Beyond / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
The Beyond / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The hotel basement, which contains one of seven gates to hell. Gets even more eldritch in the final minutes, when a door in the hospital leads to the hotel basement, miles away.
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The Beyond / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Beyond / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: The film features three eye gouging scenes: a hand coming from a hole on a wall, a victim shoved into an embedded nail that impales her eye, and a tarantula that pulls off the top layer of the eye from somebody's face.
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The Beyond / int_ac4cc68d	type	HellGate
The Beyond / int_ac4cc68d	comment	Hell Gate: One is accidentally opened, causing the house to slowly become cursed.
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The Beyond / int_b1c9f316	type	The Big Easy
The Beyond / int_b1c9f316	comment	The Big Easy: The haunted hotel was built somewhere in Louisiana.
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The Beyond / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
The Beyond / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Subverted; knowing that people would question his character shooting what appeared to be unlimited ammo from his gun, David Warbeck stealthily did some improv during in one scene (in the elevator of the hospital) where he reloads his gun... by dropping ammunition straight down the barrel (a lateral move, so far as realism goes, but he was doing it as a gag).
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The Beyond / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Beyond / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Carnivorous spiders, walking ghouls, sudden noises, growing acid pools, a gateway to Hell... what kind of haunted hotel is this!?
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The Beyond / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
The Beyond / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Dr. McCabe manages to get a couple of headshots at some zombies. And then he has to shoot a ghoul that grabbed Liza's face. Dear GOD, the results. Click through with extreme caution...◊
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The Beyond / int_c92bd7ed	type	Spiders Are Scary
The Beyond / int_c92bd7ed	comment	Spiders Are Scary: A bunch of demonic tarantulas appear out of nowhere and proceed to eat an unconscious man's face.
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The Beyond / int_cb643ebb	type	Everything's Deader with Zombies
The Beyond / int_cb643ebb	comment	Everything's Deader with Zombies: As the story goes, they were added solely due to Executive Meddling.
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The Beyond / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Beyond / int_d57f4a99	comment	The Nothing After Death: Fulci said the corpse-laden gray wasteland might be how the afterlife would appear to an atheist.
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The Beyond / int_d7c81cd3	type	Exploitation Film
The Beyond / int_d7c81cd3	comment	Exploitation Film: The only thing it's missing to be a proper video nasty is some gratuitous nudity for no reason.
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The Beyond / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
The Beyond / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: It's what's in front of the camera when Lucio Fulci's behind the camera.
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