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Beyond the Ferocious Flash Majin Vegeta Max Lv SA Lv Rarity Type Cost ID 150 1/6 10 Apr 2017 12 Jun 2017 Type Ki+3 and HP, ATK& DEF+90% Final Impact (12-17 Ki) Final Explosion (18+ Ki) Causes mega-colossal damage with a rare chance to stun the enemy1 Causes colossal damage to all. Radix: Beyond the Void is a 2.5D First-person shooter with behind-person front view, developed by Neural Storm Entertainment and published by Epic MegaGames for DOS in 1995. In the 22nd century, humanity has achieved world peace. The United Earth Space Alliance (UESA) was able to fully concentrate on space exploration.

Beyond the Dead End, Dangers in the Debris, Working Together Again, and Saying Goodbye are quests in Chapter 9, ', in. While and travel through on their way to escort Cloud back to, they hit a dead end.WalkthroughA vending machine and a bench can be found; the 'Cosmo Canyon' track can be purchased, along with many previously available equipment. Use the bench to heal HP/MP and proceed to the next quest,Head back from the vending machine to look for a ladder leading down to a lower level.

Are fought here, best defeated with ranged attacks from and spells. Take the ladder down and head through the sewers on the lower level then open a door. Before opening it, equip the on Cloud or Aerith.After opening the door and a short cutscene, the bandits, and are fought. These are simple boss battles that can be defeated with normal abilities, though and can deal with them swiftly. Their only threatening attack is their ability to stun Cloud or Aerith if they are trapped in their electric mines; avoid this, and the fight should be simple.Once the bandits are defeated, proceed forward, using the small gap, and proceed through a linear path then take a ladder upwards. On the other side, are fought along with a.

Defeat the bandits first to remove the threat of being stunned, and focus on the sweeper's right and left arms to it, then lay into it with normal attacks.After this, use the console to control the arms located here, which can be switched between using. Use the closer arm to move a container to a slot further right (marked by yellow), then use the further arm to move the container further left and stack it on top of the previous container. Next, switch back to the closer arm and move the stacked container to a slot further right, in front of a tunnel, and move the arm back to the bottom end to give Aerith a lift onto the container near the tunnel, allowing her to pick up the. Pick the container on the right back up and stack it back onto the left container, drop Aerith onto it with the closer arm, then switch to the further arm and give her a lift to the spot on the right.

Run down and climb the ladder she dropped for a short cutscene.After this, run to the right and use a ladder upwards. A few more bandits are fought ahead, which can be dispatched with spells.

Run forward through the gap and hold to give Aerith a thumbs up, then head forward to the Evergreen Park. After the cutscene, follow Aerith and approach her for another cutscene; once it ends, talk to her and agree to go to the Sector 7 slums, at which point a cutscene commences.

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Contents.Plot At 's Seven Doors Hotel in 1927, a murders an artist named Schweick, whom they believe to be a. Schweick was in the middle of finishing a grotesque painting, which is seen as part of a seance and evidence of the mob's belief.

Since Schweick was killed while the painting was being completed, this counts as a human sacrifice and one of the Seven Doors of Death opens, allowing the dead to cross into the world of the living.In 1981, Liza Merrill, a young woman from, inherits the hotel and plans to re-open it. Her renovation work activates the hell portal, and she contends with increasingly strange incidents. Larry, a painter, falls off his rig after seeing a white-eyed woman and is badly injured, coughing up blood and babbling about her eyes.

John McCabe arrives to take the injured man to the hospital, and offers Liza some sympathy. The bell for room 36 rings, and Liza dismisses it as malfunctioning. A plumber named Joe investigates flooding in the cellar and a demonic hand gouges out his eye. His body and another are later discovered by a hotel maid, Martha.Liza encounters a woman named Emily, who warns that reopening the hotel would be a mistake. Joe's wife Mary-Anne and their daughter Jill arrive at the hospital morgue to claim Joe's corpse.

After tending to her late husband's corpse, Mary-Anne screams in terror which causes her to fall to the floor; Jill finds her mother lying on the floor unconscious, her face burned by acid that toppled over from the impact. As she tries to flee, Jill encounters a corpse coming back to life. Meanwhile, Liza meets with Dr. John McCabe and they exchange their life stories over dinner. Liza admits her multiple failed careers, and how reopening the hotel will fulfill her hopes for success. McCabe talks about his experience as a doctor giving him a better grasp of reality, and led to his atheism.

He then receives a phone call informing her of Mary-Anne's death. After the funerals, it's revealed that Jill has become a ghoul. Later, Liza encounters Emily at the hotel.

Emily tells Liza the story of Schweick, and warns her to not enter Room 36. The bell rings again, and Liza notes how terrified Emily becomes afterwards. When Emily examines Schweick's painting, she begins to bleed and flees the hotel. Liza attempts to go after Emily, but notices that her own footsteps are audible, while those of Emily and her Dicky are not.Liza ignores Emily's advice and investigates Room 36. She discovers an ancient book titled and sees Schweick's corpse nailed to the bathroom wall.

She flees the room in terror, but is stopped by John. She takes him to Room 36, but both the corpse and the book are gone. Liza describes her fearful encounters with Emily, but John insists that Emily is not real. While in town, Liza spots a copy of Eibon in the window of a book store, but when she rushes in to grab it, a different book is in its place. The shop owner says the book has been there for years, prompting Liza to remark to John that perhaps it is all in her head. At the hotel, a worker named Arthur attempts to repair the same leak as Joe, but is killed off-screen by ghouls.Liza's friend Martin Avery visits the public library to find the hotel's revealing a large unknown space in the center.

He becomes curious but is struck by a sudden force and falls from a ladder, resulting in paralysis. Spiders appear out of nowhere and swarm over his body, ravaging his face and killing him. Back at the hotel, Martha is cleaning the bathroom in Room 36 when Joe's animated corpse emerges from the bathtub.

Joe pushes her head into one of the exposed nails where Schweick's corpse was earlier, killing her and gouging one of her eyes. Later, the walking corpses of Schweik, Joe, Mary-Anne, Martin and Arthur invade Emily's house due to her warning Liza about the impending doom.

She orders them to leave her alone, and insists she will not return with Schweick. She commands Dicky to attack the corpses, and they are scared away. Dicky turns on Emily immediately after, tearing out her throat and ripping off her ear.At the hotel, spirits terrorize Liza while John breaks into Emily's house—which appears to have been abandoned for years—and finds Eibon. Liza suffers a mental breakdown when Arthur's corpse tries to kill her, and the bell rings when she tries to escape. John returns to the hotel and patronizes Liza, accusing her of placing the book in the house and making up everything to get to him. His final decision to disregard her fears is when he spitefully reads the book, and learns the hotel is a gateway to Hell.

A sudden force roars and bleeds all over them, making them flee. Schweick's painting bleeds, and an unseen force says 'And you will face the sea of darkness, and all therein that may be explored'.The blood-soaked pair retreat to the hospital, which is empty. John tries to think of some logical answer for the events, but the hospital is suddenly overrun by zombies. Liza is attacked by Larry's corpse, but John gets a gun out of his desk and they escape, only to become separated. Harris and Jill are found still alive, but Harris is killed by flying shards of glass.

Liza, John and Jill try to flee, but are confronted by Schweick's corpse. No matter how many times he is shot by John, he continues his pursuit. Jill attacks Liza and is killed by John.Escaping the zombies, John and Liza rush down a set of stairs but find themselves back in the basement of the hotel. John notes how impossible the entire ordeal is, but has no choice but to accept them to be real. They move forward through the flooded labyrinth and stumble into a supernatural wasteland—the same landscape in Schweick's painting, which turns out to be Hell itself.

No matter which direction they travel, they find themselves back at their starting point. They are ultimately blinded just like Emily, succumb to the darkness, and disappear.Cast. as Liza Merril (as Katherine MacColl). as Dr.

John McCabe. as Emily (as Sarah Keller). as Schweick. Giovanni De Nava as Zombie Schweick. as Martha. Larry Ray as Larry (as Anthony Flees).

as Dr. Harris. as Martin Avery. Gianpaolo Saccarola as Arthur.

Maria Pia Marsala as Jill. as Mary-Anne. Tonino Pulci as Joe the Plumber (uncredited). as Librarian (uncredited)Pictorialist interpretations and themes John Thonen of noted The Beyond as having 'a story structure akin to that of an advanced fever.' Film scholar Wheeler Dixon similarly notes this element, writing the 'slight framing narrative is merely the excuse for Fulci to stage a series of macabre, distressing set pieces.'

While the film's narrative format has been noted for these features, writer Bill Gibron suggests the film has a subtext of ', witchcraft, mob justice—and perhaps the key to almost all Fulci narratives—revenge' at its core.The concept of 'the beyond,' which the characters Liza and John enter in the films' final sequence, is interpreted by film writer Meagan Navarro as a statement on 'the concept of.' Fulci himself was a lapsed Catholic, and previous films of his such as (1972) had dealt with corruption among clergy.A prominent theme identified by film scholar Phillip L.

Simpson is that of as a result of exposure to evil, specifically tied to the Book of Eibon: 'The book, like many other (in)famous 'evil' books found in literature and cinema, is a physical, written record of valuable occult knowledge that attempts to codify—accompanied by dire warnings that careless or ignorant deployment of that power will result in horrific consequences—what is otherwise usually represented as literally 'unseeable.' Simpson interprets the film's 'pervasive images of blindness and eye mutilation' as being directly consequential to characters' exposure to the book. Simpson points out that only Schweick, the warlock lynched in the film's 1927 prologue, and Emily, a ' who transcends temporality,' possess the 'necessary sight' to interpret the contents of the book. Production Development and pre-production Producer noted that on his previous collaboration with Fulci, (1979), they had aspired to make 'a comic book movie. that is, instead of being scared, people would laugh when they saw these zombies.' Instead, audiences largely responded with fear, prompting them to make a straightforward horror film. After making (1980), Fulci sought to make a follow-up film as part of a with the 'Gates of Hell' being a unifying theme. Simpson describes the trilogy as being loosely 'connected by the trope of hapless mortals literally living on top of an entrance to Hell and then inadvertently falling into it.'

The hotel is an excuse, the characters are an excuse—what counted was the weaving of pure emotions.– Dardano Sacchetti on the arbitrary nature of the film's settingThe base concept for The Beyond was devised by Fulci, Giorgio Mariuzzo,. A poster designed by was produced based solely on the in hopes of selling the film to international markets, and the film's title was chosen based on a conversation between Fulci and De Angellis. De Angelis recalled Fulci discussing the film's concept with him: 'So he's telling me this story about a couple moving into a house, where underneath is hell.

And I was like, 'What does this mean?' . there weren't any dead people, maybe killed. No, there was hell under that house!' And he said 'the beyond.'

And when I heard 'The Beyond,' that was already the title.' After receiving De Angellis's approval, Fulci requested that Sacchetti begin writing a full screenplay based on the brief treatment they had completed. According to De Angellis, much of the plot was devised based on vague ideas Fulci had for various death scenes, as well as several key words that he felt unified his vision. Some elements of the screenplay were derived in an arbitrary manner, such as the design of the Eibon symbol, which Fulci based on the shape of a trivial amateur his daughter had gotten on her arm.Sacchetti's conception of the 'beyond' was based on his own ruminations on death, and the 'suffering of being born condemned to death. of being born to be erased.' Sacchetti sought to depict the beyond as a hell full of dead souls, an otherworld existing 'outside of.' Originally, the film's final sequence in which the characters enter the 'beyond' was meant to take place at an, where the two main characters, now dead, are able to enjoy themselves in a 'great amusement park of life.'

Due to logistical restrictions, however, this was unable to be filmed, and the existing final sequence—in which the characters enter a vast desert landscape full of corpses—was devised by Sacchetti 'on the spur of the moment.' In an interview, Fulci gave the film's budget as 580 million, half the amount that De Angelis had originally allotted to it. Casting Although Fulci originally intended to cast Zombi 2 star as Liza Merrill, English actress was chosen after having worked with him previously on City of the Living Dead. She would go on to appear in the subsequent final film of Fulci's 'Gates of Hell' trilogy, The House by the Cemetery, as well. MacColl would later deem The Beyond to be her personal favorite film of the trilogy, stating that she remains drawn to the 'decadent Italian macabre poetry' that she feels the film exudes.was cast as Dr.

John McCabe after he and Fulci became friends during the making of (1981). Originally, the roles of Joe the Plumber and Professor Harris were to be played by and, respectively, but they were replaced by two of Fulci's friends, stage actor Tonino Pulci and Zombi 2 co-star, whom the director affectionately nicknamed 'Tufus'.

Partway during the shoot, French actor, who played the doomed painter Schweick, was replaced by Giovanni De Nava, who played the 'zombified' version of the character; De Nava is sometimes mistakenly credited for playing Joe.For the role of the ghostly Emily, was originally considered, but Casini turned down the role as she did not want to wear the blinding she would have been required to wear. Fulci instead cast actress and model, who had previously starred in his (1978). Monreale was drawn to the film as she felt Fulci's concept was 'well written and full of mystery,' and she had enjoyed her time working with him previously. The historic Otis House in (top as seen in film; bottom in 2008) served as the main setting for the film.The majority of The Beyond was filmed on location in late 1980 in, Louisiana, as well as the outlying cities of,.

Larry Ray, a New Orleans resident and member of the Louisiana Film Commission, was hired to help Fulci scout locations. While scouting, Fulci took a liking to Ray and hired him as a production manager and producer's assistant. Within New Orleans proper, filming was completed in the district, as well as on the campus of. The funeral sequence in the graveyard was shot at the.The historic Otis House near, located within the, served as the Seven Doors Hotel. During filming, the production designers aged the home's exteriors by spraying the siding with water and dark dye, as well as throwing cement and sand on the floors to make it appear dusty and dilapidated. According to Ray, the sand damaged the original wood floors, and the production had to pay the State of Louisiana to restore them once filming wrapped.

The sequence in which Liza meets Emily on the bridge was shot on the, while Emily's house was the same New Orleans residence used in 's (1978).To achieve the film's stark visual style, cinematographer photographed the New Orleans exteriors using 'warm colors' in hope of capturing the 'sun, the heat, and the jazz' of the city. Salvati contrasted the urban New Orleans settings with the 'cooler' interiors of the hotel, which often feature cool blue, orange, and violet lighting.According to Ray, Fulci had no official shooting script present while filming The Beyond, only a treatment that ran three pages in length:The early concept script outline was only three pages with a story quite different from the one of the final movie. Fulci was always finding new ideas. Let me give you an example.

100 miles (160 km) from the Otis House that we used as the exterior of the Hotel of the story there was a long and narrow lake. We had been given the authorisation to shoot the exterior as well as interior of this historic house.

Lucio Fulci or Sergio Salvati had the idea to use the lake for the scene with the boats loaded with the angry mob with torches. This produced beautiful reflections on the water and smoke machines provided the perfect atmosphere. In the end, lots of these scenes were dreamed up on the spot and added as a combined work between Fulci, David Pash and the crew.The majority of the cast were speakers, while Fulci spoke.

Due to the language barrier, much of Fulci's direction was done with 'miming, making faces and moving his body in order to make the actors understand what he wanted of them.' As he was a fluent Italian speaker, Ray served as Fulci's translator and interpreter throughout the shoot.After filming had completed in the United States, additional photography took place at De Paolis Studios in, primarily consisting of the special effects-intensive scenes. Among these were the interior shots of the film's opening sequence featuring the mob murder, as well as interior replicas of Emily's home. Some additional sequences featuring Emily's dog were also shot in Rome, which required the production to find a lookalike in Italy.

According to MacColl, the film's end sequence, in which she and Warbeck's characters enter 'the beyond,' was completed on their last day of shooting, on 22 December 1980. The sequence was shot on an empty soundstage which had leftover sand from a previous film, and random civilians were hired off the street to appear as inanimate corpses lying in the sand. The sand was dampened with water, which, through evaporation, resulted in the natural fog effect present in the film.

Special effects. The white contact lenses worn by several of the actors (Cinzia Monreale pictured) rendered the performers completely blind.The special effects in The Beyond were achieved via practical methods, and have been noted by scholars as Fulci's 'signature violent set pieces.' The majority of the special effects-intensive scenes were filmed on sound stages in Italy. Monreale recalled her time spent on set during the effects preparation as the most 'intense,' due to elaborate setups and hours spent properly achieving Fulci's desired visual outcome. Among these for Monreale was her character's violent death sequence, in which she is viciously mauled by her dog.

To achieve the effect, the head of a fake dog was crafted, as well as a layered prosthetic neck which the dog tears open with its teeth. This sequence alone took around three days to complete, with the dummy dog being manually. On set, Fulci jokingly referred to the fake dog head as 'Puppola.' The white contact lenses worn by several actors in the film were made of glass and hand-painted with multiple shades of. They were described by both MacColl and Warbeck as being very uncomfortable; MacColl recalled that after completing the film's finale sequence, both she and Warbeck had difficulty removing them from their eyes. The lenses also obscured the wearer's vision, rendering them completely or nearly-completely blind. Monreale expressed that wearing the lenses was extremely difficult for her; all of her scenes except one required her to wear them, and she had to rely on the film's makeup artist, Maurizio Trani, for assistance navigating the sets.

To minimize discomfort, Trani would regularly remove the lenses from the actors' eyes and disinfect them between takes.One of the film's more elaborate special effects sequences was the death scene of Martin Avery, who is attacked by a horde of tarantula spiders. According to Trani, crafting the sequence was 'complicated,' but 'proved to be simpler than expected.' Special effects designer Giannetto DeRossi created half of a prosthetic mouth for the actor, Michele Mirabella, from latex and a he obtained from his dentist. While some of the spiders were real, the ones filmed biting at Avery's mouth and face were fake, and controlled with handheld clamps. Close-up shots of Mirabella's real mouth were intercut with ones of his false mouth (including close-ups of a fake tongue) as it is bitten by the spiders, resulting in a seamless image of the attack.The special effects during the film's first morgue scene in which a bottle of is poured over the face of Mary-Anne were created by effects artist Germano Natali. To achieve the melting effect of the face, real was dumped over a cast of the actress's face, which was made of a mixture of wax and; sulfuric acid dissolves the latter substance.

A similar dummy head was created to achieve the effect of the character of Joe's eyeball being gouged.The of Schweick, shown in the opening sequence, was also achieved via practical methods: holes were cut for Saint-John to conceal his forearms behind the cross, while dummy forearms filled with fake blood reservoirs were attached to the front of the cross. Two additional holes were cut at the ends of the dummy forearms, through which DeRossi inserted his own hands. The result appears as two seamless arms, and allowed for the crucifixion to look authentic, as the hands were motile and could writhe in reaction. Trani's hands appear onscreen as the nailer who completes the crucifixion. Music Fulci commissioned composer to complete a musical score for the film. Commenting on writing the score, Frizzi said: 'The distinctive aim of the film's soundtrack was to achieve an old goal of mine.

I wanted to combine two different instrumental forms I had always loved: the band and the orchestra. When I started writing music some years before, I had learned to combine these two sounds; but for many reasons, the roles of strings and wind instruments were mainly created by keyboards. This time I decided to get serious.' The score features various instruments, including and, as well as orchestral and choral arrangements. Reviewers noted that as the film progresses toward its conclusion, 'Frizzi's score also darkens, growing heavy, underlining the inescapable fate of the characters.' In 2016, Rolling Stone ranked Frizzi's score the 11th-best horror film score of all time. Chris Alexander of also ranked the film's main theme, 'Voci Dal Nulla' (English: 'Voices from the Void'), one of the greatest horror film themes ever composed.

In 1981, the score was released in Italy on through Beat Records Company. On October 30, 2015, the independent record label Death Waltz issued the remastered score on vinyl. A version had been released previously in 2001 by Dagored Records. Grindhouse Releasing now includes the soundtrack with the Blu-ray release in the USA.On October 17, 2019, Eibon Press announced that Grindhouse Releasing had discovered the original recordings of the score for the US 7 Doors of Death cut, and they had collaborated to release a limited-edition CD with a adaptation of the film.The Beyond track listingAll tracks are written by Fabio Frizzi. Verso L'ignoto'3:572.'

Voci Dal Nulla'2:563.' Suono Aperto'1:234.'

Sequenza Coro E Orchestra'4:325.' Oltre la Soglia'4:026.' Voci Dal Nulla'4:267.'

Suono Aperto'3:588.' Voci Dal Nulla'4:179.' Giro Di Blues'2:1910.' Verso L'ignoto'3:2211.' Sequenza Ritmica E Tema'4:227 Doors of Death track listingAll tracks are written by Mitch & Ira Yuspeh. Seven Doors of Death'4:392.' Liza Theme'3:293.'

Seven Doors March'5:264.' Emily's Theme'2:075.' Seven Doors Strings'0:576.' Joe the Plumber'3:458.' Liza's Theme Reprise'3:139.' Liza Alone'2:1811.'

The Hospital'3:1212.' End Titles Theme'4:2613.' The Swamp (Bonus Track w/FX)'5:5614.' Seven Doors (Alternative Bonus Track)'4:42Reception and legacy Theatrical distribution The Beyond was released theatrically in Italy on 29 April 1981, where it grossed 747,615,662 lire on its initial run; film historian Roberto Curti described this as 'OK business', noting that while this gross was less than that of Fulci's earlier horror films, the film was widely distributed in other countries, and was especially successful in Spain. In England, the film had difficulty with censors. The passed it with an demanding several cuts and subsequently included it on the list.

It would not be released in the United Kingdom uncut until 2001 on home video. In Germany, the film was released under the title Die Geisterstadt der Zombies ( transl. The Ghost Town of Zombies). The German theatrical version was the only version of the film in which the pre-credit sequence was printed in color; in the Italian and international versions, the sequence was printed in.

In the United States, the film was released and marketed under the title 7 Doors of DeathThe Beyond did not see a U.S. Release until 1983, when it was acquired for theatrical distribution by Terry Levine of Aquarius Releasing, a New York City-based distributor who had previously handled regional distribution for 's (1978). Levine purchased the U.S.

Distribution rights for around $35,000, and spent an additional $10,000 on additional post-production work, which included replacing Frizzi's music with a new score by Mitch and Ira Yuspeh, as well as truncating it by several minutes in order to achieve an R-rating. Aquarius released this alternate version of the film in the United States on 11 November 1983 under the title 7 Doors of Death. According to Levine, the title change was a result of his belief that the original title was too nebulous, and that the film's 'Seven Doors' plot device was a more interesting narrative hook that would intrigue audiences. To promote this release, Levine screened the film for and, the respective co-writer and director of (1974), who granted laudatory quotes about the film to be used in television and print advertisements.

Most of the cast and crew names for this version were also ' to appeal to U.S. Audiences, with Fulci being credited as 'Louis Fuller'. 7 Doors of Death was a commercial success, grossing $455,652 during its first week of release; Levine estimated that the film turned him a profit of roughly $700,000.The uncut version of The Beyond was not made commercially available in the U.S. Until after Fulci's death in 1996. Following the director's passing, the North American distribution rights to the film were acquired by and for their company, which partnered with and Jerry Martinez's and 's Cowboy Booking International to re-release the film through a series of that began in, and five other locations on 12 June 1998, followed by a national roll-out. Remarking on Rolling Thunder's stake in the film, Cowboy Vice-President John Vanco noted that 'Fulci is one of Tarantino and Martinez's favorite directors', and the pair 'wanted to have someone with a little more kind of midnight movie specialized kind of background to help distribute the film'. By July 26, the re-release had made $123,843 at the box office.

Murawski's ownership of The Beyond's U.S. Rights proved useful while editing 's transformation scene in 's (2002): due to a lack of money to create original footage, he inserted a brief shot of a spider from Martin's death scene into the sequence, along with footage from Raimi's (1990). Grindhouse gave the film a second theatrical re-release in North America to celebrate its 24th anniversary, starting on 9 February 2015 at the in, and ending on 27 March 2015 in the in,. Critical response Contemporaneous. People who blame The Beyond for its lack of story have not understood that it's a film of images, which must be received without any reflection.

They say it is very difficult to interpret such a film, but it is very easy to interpret a film with threads: Any idiot can understand Molinaro's, or even Carpenter's, while The Beyond or Argento's are absolute films.– Lucio Fulci on The Beyond 's receptionUpon the film's 1983 release in the United States as 7 Doors of Death, critic of the deemed the film visually 'elegant,' but noted: 'as a thriller of the occult it's overly familiar, just another rotting-flesh ghoul parade.' Bill Kelley of the similarly praised the film's visual elements, including the sepia prologue, but added: 'The problem is, whenever someone in the film is trying to act, the camera is recording something that's really not worth seeing,' ultimately classing it as a 'Z-grade horror movie.' The 's Bill O'Connor criticized the plot for a lack of coherence, writing: 'People get killed all over the hotel.

Then, after they're killed, they get ugly. We never know why they get killed or why they get ugly, which leads me to suspect that maybe this is an art film. At the end of the movie, the dead walk. Then the people leave the movie theater.

They look just like the dead people who walked out of the morgue. Maybe this is not an art movie. Maybe this is a documentary.' Tim Pulleine ( ) stated that the film allows for 'two or three visually striking passages-and granting that, from onwards, narrative concision has not been the strong suit for Italian horror movies—the film is still completely undone by its wildly disorganized plot.' The review also critiqued the dub, noting its 'sheer ineptitude'. Retrospective Upon its 1998 re-release, critic deemed it a film 'filled with bad dialogue' and criticized it for having an incoherent plot.

In 2000, he included the film in a book of his 'most-hated' movies.On the, The Beyond holds a 67% approval rating based on 21 critic reviews, with an of 6.46/10. Called the film a 'surreal and bloody horror epic' and labeled it 'Italian horror at its nightmarish extreme'., alternatively, called it 'a shamelessly artless horror movie whose senseless story—a girl inherits a spooky, seedy hotel which just happens to have one of the seven doors of Hell in its cellar—is merely an excuse for a poorly connected series of sadistic tableaux of torture and gore.'

Critic wrote in Horror Films of 1980s: 'Fulci's films may be dread-filled excursions into surrealism and dream imagery, but in the real world, they don't hang together, and The Beyond is Exhibit A.' A similar sentiment is echoed by Bill Gibron of, who wrote of the film in 2007:The Beyond is an incoherent, chaotic combination of Italian terror and monster movie grave robbing that is almost saved by its bleak, atmospheric ending. It is a wretched gore fest sprinkled with wonderfully evocative touches.

It has more potential than dozens of past and present Hollywood horror films, yet finds ways to squander and squelch each and every golden gruesome opportunity. It's a movie that gets better with multiple viewings, familiarity lessening the startling goofiness of some of the dialogue and dubbing.

It is a film that is far more effective in recollection than it is as an actual viewing experience. It would probably work best as a silent movie, stripped of the illogical scripting, stupendously redundant -in-training soundtrack drones, and obtuse aural cues.In the years since its release, The Beyond has acquired a. Time Out London conducted a poll with several authors, directors, actors and critics who have worked within the horror genre to vote for their top horror films. As of 1 October 2019, The Beyond placed at number 64 on their top 100 list. Film critic Steven Jay Schneider ranked the film number 71 in his book 101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die (2009). Home video On 10 October 2000, co-distributed the film in collaboration with on in both a limited-edition tin-box set, and a standard DVD. Both releases featured the fully uncut 89-minute version of the film.

There were only 20,000 limited-edition sets released for purchase. The limited-edition set was packaged in a tin box with alternative cover artwork, including an informative booklet on the film's production as well as various miniature poster replications.

The same year, Diamond Entertainment released a DVD edition bearing the 7 Doors of Death, which in spite of its usage of the US release title, is uncut at 89 minutes and sourced from the film's laserdisc.A version of the film was released in Australia on 20 November 2013. Grindhouse Releasing, the film's North American distributor, released the film in 2015 on Blu-ray in the United States, featuring two Blu-ray discs as well as a soundtrack. The distributors also wanted to restore the '7 Doors' version, but the original print of this is assumed to be lost.

As of 2019, the '7 Doors' alternative score prints were discovered, and are in the process of restoration. '7 Doors' trailers, TV spots and an interview with Aquarius owner Terry Levene explaining the 'Americanization' process was included as special features instead. Levene also stated he's very content with the original version being praised and preserved, and admitted he only made the '7 Doors' version as a way to gain American interest. As of 2018, a cut version of the film available for streaming via under the 7 Doors of Death title runs approximately 84 minutes. References.

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