History Film / TheBeyond

* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Book of Eibon.

[[caption-width-right:300: Making the Hellmouth a place of fear and terror long before Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer came along]]

* {{Corpsing}}: [=MacColl=] grins at Warbeck's above mentioned gun joke.

* BewareOfViciousDog: The haunted hotel manages to turn the blind woman's dog against her and rips her throat open.

* DefiniteArticleTitle

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The entire town vanishes and is presumed dead. Liza and John try to flee the zombies, but they make the mistake of going into the basement, thus entering the Gate, and being trapped in the Beyond forever.]]

* OminousLatinChanting: The main theme has shades of this, but it's actually more like "Ethereal Italian Chanting Vocals That Sound Like Actual Zombies with Driving Guitar and Pan Flute Harmony." And it's ''[[SugarWiki/CrowningMusicOfAwesome incredible.]]''

* SickeningCrunch: Numerous, but they all sound like someone crunching potato chips.
** The foley work for the tarantulas deserves special mention- their every step sounds like grinding metal, and it's ''[[NightmareFuel absolutely unnerving.]]''

* TheTheTitle

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The entire town vanishes and is presumed dead. Liza and McCabe try to flee the zombies, but they make the mistake of going into the basement, thus entering the Gate, and being trapped in the Beyond forever.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The entire town vanishes and is presumed dead. Liza and Richard try to flee the zombies, but they make the mistake of going into the basement, thus entering the Gate, and being trapped in the Beyond forever.]]

* FacialHorror: Somebody meets her end when corrosive acid falls on her face. In the usual Fulci fashion, it slowly shows off every detail of the acid's damage.

!!This film provides examples of:

* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: As the story goes, they were added solely due to ExecutiveMeddling.

* LovecraftOnFilm: Actually, Clark Ashton Smith on Film.

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%%* ExploitationFilm

''E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà '' (lit. ''And you will live in terror! The afterlife''), known in English as ''The Beyond'' or ''Seven Doors of Death'', is a 1981 [[SurrealHorror surrealist]] [[ExploitationFilm exploitation]] horror film directed by Creator/LucioFulci, loosely based on the works of Creator/HPLovecraft and Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith.

* BottomlessMagazines: Subverted; knowing that people would question his character shooting what appeared to be unlimited ammo from his gun, David Warbeck stealthily did some improv during in one scene (in the elevator of the hospital) where he reloads his gun... [[ArtisticLicense by dropping ammunition straight down the barrel]] (a lateral move, so far as realism goes).

''E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà '', known in English as ''The Beyond'' or ''Seven Doors of Death'', is a 1981 [[SurrealHorror surrealist]] [[ExploitationFilm exploitation]] horror film directed by Creator/LucioFulci, loosely based on the works of Creator/HPLovecraft and Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith.

Set in [[TheBigEasy Louisiana]], the film opens in 1927 with a painter named Schweick painting a vision of Hell in the basement of the Seven Doors Hotel when a lynch mob breaks in and murders him with quicklime, believing him to be a warlock. Shifting to the "present day", a young woman from New York named Liza Merril (Catriona Maccoll) has inherited the hotel and is renovating it. The activities of the contractors open the [[HellGate Gate of Hell]] the hotel is built over. Mysterious deaths and incidents ensue, with Liza and a local doctor encountering a mysterious blind girl who wants them to leave the hotel, a mystic tome called the Book of Eibon that supposedly contains the answers to the nightmare at hand, [[SpidersAreScary face eating tarantulas]], Schweick's ghoul, and eventually the rising dead. It ends with the two passing into the afterlife, which is [[TheNothingAfterDeath depicted as a blank gray wasteland littered with corpses]].

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[[caption-width-right:338: Making the Hellmouth a place of fear and terror long before Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer came along]]

'''''E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà ''''', known in English as '''''The Beyond''''' or '''''Seven Doors of Death''''' is a 1981 [[SurrealHorror surrealist]] [[ExploitationFilm exploitation]] horror film directed by Creator/LucioFulci, loosely based on the works of Creator/HPLovecraft and Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith.

%%* TheBigEasy

* EyeScream: The film features two eye gouging scenes, first done by hand coming from a hole on a wall.

%%* MindScrew

%%* SurrealHorror

* DownerEnding: Everyone sadly succumbs to the horrors of the house.

* BoomHeadshot: Dr. [=McCabe=] manages to get a couple of headshots at some zombies. And then he has to shoot a ghoul that grabbed Liza's face. Dear '''GOD'', the results. [[http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com/bgh/files/promos/fulci%20lives%201.jpg Click through with extreme caution...]]
* BottomlessMagazines: Subverted; knowing that people would question his character shooting what appeared to be unlimited ammo from his gun, Creator/DavidWarbeck stealthily did some improv during in one scene (in the elevator of the hospital) where he reloads his gun... [[ArtisticLicense by dropping ammunition straight down the barrel]] (a lateral move, so far as realism goes).