1981 · horror
The Beyond
Directed by Lucio Fulci1h 28m1981
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.
Our read: The Beyond (1981) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, extreme horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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