Michael Ledo A hotel in Louisiana is built upon one of the seven gates of hell. It was walled up in 1927 and was real;eased later in 1981. This was supposed to be satanic, but the zombie like walking dead would classify this as a zombie film. I was rather bored with the film.The restoration was excellent, which allowed us to know how horribly dubbed it was. Not worth a rental.

Fella_shibby I saw this first on a VHS in the late 80s titled as Seven doors of death. The VHS guy told me that it was a rare copy. Revisited recently on a blu ray. The film may be frustrating to some viewers because it does not follow a linear path. The movie starts in 1927 Louisiana hotel where v get to see an angry mob, some arriving in boats while others in cars. Yeehaw! They torture n kill a painter, crucifying him on the wall. The blood which comes out from his hand resembles dirty muddy water. Fast forward, a girl from New York inherits this hotel n she starts renovation. How she inherits this hotel no explanation given. A painter falls off after he sees a girl with the creepiest contact lenses. Later we see the new owner of the hotel driving on a seemingly endless bridge to nowhere n the same creepy lenses blind girl standing with her dog on the bridge. A plumber goes to repair the mysterious flooding in the basement n there is the most nastiest eye popping scene. Later the bodies of the plumber n the painter (who's now a decayed n dead zombie) r moved to the morgue where the doc puts ECG machine on the zombie. Crazy science! The painters wife comes to dress the body for funeral n she sees something which we don't get to see n she screams n v get to c an open jar of acid (who keeps an open jar of acid) kept on top of a shelf which is shaking n slowly the acid is dropping on the mothers face, while the daughter who entered hearing the scream tries to escape the acidic froth which goes on like a wave. Cut back to the funeral n we get to see the daughter of the plumber too turned blind with similar creepy lenses. A contractor goes to the city hall to retrieve some old plans of the hotel n he falls down the ladder n is attacked by tarantulas n they do eat his eyeballs. Whats the eyeball obsession? Now the original blind girl who's been dismissed as a ghost or someone who doesn't exist, is attacked by her dog. Who was she is never explained. Do we care? Nope. In the end v get to c hordes of slow walking zombies. The doc keeps on firing, sometimes on the head n sometimes on other body parts. Maybe his aim wasn't that good or else how can he not know about shooting the zombies on the head. The best part is that without reloading the gun, he keeps on firing. One very good scene of a head-shot. Superb effects there. The ending is done surprisingly well and offers a nice little final touch of horror. The doc n the owner r trapped in the painting. Technically, Salvati did a good job with the cinematography. Germano Natali did some stunning special effects. All in all the director Lucio fulci did a terrific job with the lil resources he had to work with.

Brian L This is probably my favorite horror movie of all time, and that stacks up against the pure genius of stuff like Phantasm, Evil Dead, Phenomenon and Dead Alive or any Romero. We have "Shocktoberfest" at my place every year over several nights, and I remember it being the 2008 election season when we watched The Beyond (like we do just about every year). We were totally blown away by John McCain and Joe the Plumber being in the same movie from 1981!!! Well, it's actually "John McCabe" but being that close to the election we could only hear "McCain," and our heads probably weren't on completely straight. Fulci is a master and transcends space-time to bring us the ultimate in fear and gore.

MartinHafer "The Beyond" is a film that will offer lots and lots of frights even though it is a bit scant on plot. This makes it a perfect film to watch to scare yourself and your friends without needing to worry about following exactly what's happening. This is NOT a criticism--it really isn't. And, sometimes you want to see a film that is one thrill after another.A young woman inherits a hotel in New Orleans--a city that is reputed to be very haunted. However, this place makes EVERY haunted place in the city put together seem like paradise! This is because everyone around the woman keeps dying horrible deaths--very bloody and horrible deaths. They are absolutely horrific--such as a dog tearing out someone's throat as blood goes shooting everywhere! However, and this is important, while very bloody and intense, the special effects are not as realistic as movies today. This is a GOOD thing, as the film would have simply been nauseating and disgusting--but instead, you could laugh off the deaths. Now by 1981 standards, they were not bad at all--something that works very well when seen today.So is it worth seeing? Absolutely. As I said above, if you are just looking to be scared it's very good. But I didn't give it an even higher score because a few scenes were a bit cheesy (such as the obviously fake tarantulas used in one death). I also thought the guy helping the lady at the end was an idiot. Even though EVERY head shot killed the zombies, he kept shooting them in the chest with no effect! And these were really, really, really slow zombies and he could have easily used 1 bullet per zombie! What a knucklehead! So, remember--if you are being attacked by zombies, conserve your bullets and concentrate only on head shots!