Cinema
The Beyond
...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà
Lucio Fulci · 1981
Synopsis
In 1927, a mob lynches a painter in a hotel in New Orleans. In 1981, Liza Merrill inherits the hotel and sets about renovating it in order to reopen it. Accidents multiply during the work: a workman falls from a scaffold, and a plumber discovers a walled-up passage beneath the building.
Context
The screenplay is by Dardano Sacchetti, Giorgio Mariuzzo and Lucio Fulci, from a story by Sacchetti; the music is by Fabio Frizzi. Catriona MacColl plays Liza and David Warbeck Dr McCabe. The film was shot on location in Louisiana, and at the De Paolis studios in Rome. Released in the United States in 1983 in a cut version, it was distributed there in its full version in 1998 by Grindhouse Releasing, with Quentin Tarantino's company.
Who it is for
A little under an hour and a half. A horror film with very bloody deaths, for a knowing audience.
Prizes and reception
Restored in 4K, it was reissued in an American box set in 2025, then in France in 2026 by Le Chat qui fume.
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