Halloween Month continues here at Balladeer’s Blog with this look at three notorious – but not necessarily all that good – horror films from iconic Italian director Lucio Fulci.
As always, because I review everything from mild horror films to extreme, I will give notice to Fulci newcomers that his movies are known for very, very graphic violence and stomach-turning special effects. If that’s not your type of horror, avoid reading anything below the “continue reading” line.
THE BEYOND (1981) – A woman inherits The Seven Doors Hotel, a run-down inn outside New Orleans in the Louisiana countryside. It was once the site of an infamous murder in the 1920s and supernatural activities break out as our heroine Liza Merrill (Katherine MacColl) tries to refurbish the place.
The 1927 slaying involved an outraged mob forcing their way into the hotel, dragging the artist and occultist Schweik down to the basement. Once there they killed him in three graphic stages for practicing Black Magic.
Meanwhile, a soon to be blind woman reads The Book of Eibon and foresees a time when the hotel may be used to unleash nightmarish forces from the beyond. Continue reading
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