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The Beyond

1981 · 88 min

A surreal, nightmarish descent into a hellish hotel where logic dissolves and dread saturates every frame.

Directed by
Lucio Fulci
Genres
Horror
Starring
Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale
Tagline
Beyond death...Beyond Evil...Beyond the dreaded gates of hell.
Overview
New Yorker Liza Merril inherits an old hotel in Louisiana and invests her savings to reopen the place, unaware that the hotel houses the body of a dead painter murdered decades earlier, and that the location is about to become a gateway to Hell.

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Directed by
Lucio Fulci
Genres
Horror
Starring
Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale
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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • death
  • madness
  • survival
  • faith
  • isolation
Places
  • single country house
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror9
Humour1
Realism3
Romance1
Tension8
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Genres
horror
Directed by
Lucio Fulci
Written by
Lucio Fulci, Giorgio Mariuzzo, Dardano Sacchetti
Starring
Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale, Antoine Saint-John, Veronica Lazăr, Larry Ray, Al Cliver, Michele Mirabella
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
88 min
Country
Italy
Languages
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