The cellar of an old hotel is built on top of the door to the beyond. Bloody zombies roam there. A young woman who is heir of the hotel wants to restaurate it. She is confronted with strange events. A painter has a lethal fall, the plumber vanishes and her friend breaks his neck. When she escapes to the hospital of a friendly doctor she doesn't know what a nightmare is waiting there...
The Beyond probably has one of the most brutal openingscenes i've ever seen. Set somewhere in the 1800's I believe, a group of angry guys armed with torches and iron chains bump into the hotelroom of a loner who apparently discovered a gateway to hell. The loner gets heavily beaten up with the chain and Fulci isn't scared to fully zoom in on the gaping wounds. Then they take him to the cellar where they beat him some more with the chain and then they nail him to the wall hammering some nails into his arms. Still fully on close up with great gore effects. And last but not least, they get some kind of biting acid which they throw on him so he melts away. Truly on of the most violent openingscenes i've ever seen.
Years and years later ''Lisa'' buys the old hotel to renovate it. She hires a plumber to fix the leakage in the basement. The guy is called, I kid you not, plumber Joe. Played by debuting actor Giovanni De Nava who later on only had minor roles in 3 other Italian films. And that's pretty strange as he's pretty damn great, funny and kinda bad-ass as Plumber Joe. Unfortunately his part is pretty short as he accidentally opens the gateway to hell and gets his eye pushed out by a zombie. So now that the gateway to hell is open all kind of zombie creatures come out. This results in some other great gore scene's. There are scene's where a women gets melted by acid, a women gets her head spiked on a nail, a demonic possessed dog mutilates his master, a guy gets his head eaten by spiders and all other kinds of amazing gory displays.
The film flies by due to those cool gore scenes and the amazing soundtrack provided by Italian music maestro Fabio Frizzi. The ending also is a great one. No happy ending right here in this Fulci flick. The ending is dark, creepy and sinister. Just like it should be in a horrorfilm.
Absolutely a must see if you are a Italian horror fan, a Lucio Fulci fan or if you are interested in the work of Lucio Fulci (In that case i'd also strongly recommend Zombi 2). The films is full of Italian gore, brilliant music and a very scarry atmosphere. Definitely one of the best horror movies out there while the first time I saw this film I just thought it was decent and nothing more.
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