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Originally Posted by realdealblues
The Beyond was in Italian and dubbed into English other than David Warbeck and Catriona MacColl I think. Also, it was Fulci's idea of "Absolute Film" where it doesn't really have a plot per say. His idea was that it should be more like a nightmare where things don't make sense. Example, go in your basement and suddenly you're in some other basement, just like in a dream. The main idea, as he said, is there is a Hotel that sits on one of the Gates Of Hell, there are some people and some living dead and this is what happens. You have to remember the movie was also made for less than the catering budget of most American films at the time. Fulci was a magician who was usually given pretty much nothing to work with and had to pull a rabbit out of his ass to make a movie that most directors couldn't have made anything out of. You're welcome to think it's silly or not very good, but it also helps if you understand more of the background of what Fulci had to work with and what he was trying to achieve at the time. For me it was a very revolutionary film.
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Thx, Realdeal. Yes, that does make more sense, it being meant as a bad dream. I wouldn't have guessed that. I thought a movie like Lenora, was similar, but with much better results. I tend not to give extra points for being low budget, unless I actually liked it over all. As always, it's personal taste. I lost an appreciation for a movie like this around 14 (just when I happened, not saying it's an adult thing). But that does help to know the intent. Still, a movie should stand on it's own; easy enough for the director to indicate it's a dream (in the movie itself, though it may just have escaped me) -- such as the indications of 'dreamish' in Jacobs Ladder, Johny Darko, etc.