The Beyond is a 1981 Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci. It is considered by some horror film fans to be one of the best movies made by the Italian director. The second film in Fulci's unofficial Gates of Hell trilogy , The Beyond has gained a cult following over the decades, in part because of the film's gore-filled murder sequences, which had been heavily censored when the film was originally released in the United States in 1983. In 1927, Louisiana's Seven Doors Hotel is the scene of a vicious murder as a lynch mob crucifies and pours quicklime upon an artist named Schweick, whom... they believe to be a warlock. The artist's murder opens one of the seven doors of death, which exist throughout the world and allow the dead to cross into the world of the living. Several decades later, a young woman from New York inherits the hotel and plans to re-open it for business.
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| Release date: | April 29, 1981 |
| Directed by: | Lucio Fulci |
| Runtime: | 87 Minutes |
| Producer: | Fabrizio De Angelis |
| Editor: | Vincenzo Tomassi |
| Music by: | Fabio Frizzi |
| Cinematography: | Sergio Salvati |
| Screenplay by: | Dardano Sacchetti, Giorgio Mariuzzo, Lucio Fulci |
| Estimated budget: | $400,000 |