It’s no secret to informed movie viewers that Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond is both adored and reviled in almost equal measure. Beautiful, surreal and revoltingly grotesque the film retains the ability to shock with its series of nasty set pieces, while remaining consistently frustrating for its incoherent plotting and inconsistent performances. For patient viewers in the right state of mind, however, The Beyond is the ultimate haunted house nightmare, crafted by a master of the genre working at the height of his powers. We begin at the Seven Doors Hotel in Louisiana way back in 1927, where an accused warlock
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