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Pretty much any time you
watch a Fulci movie, you are definitely guaranteed a few things off
the bat. Slow pacing, horrible dubbed voices, almost zero amount of a
storyline, and easily some of the coolest unflinching gore scenes
you’ll ever see! The Beyond (also known as "Seven Doors of
Death") is one of Fulci’s “zombie period” films from the early
eighties. I could go into great details on the storyline, but honestly
when you watch a Fulci film, all you really want to see is the
carnage! Essentially this film is standard Fulci fare; someone
unleashes the evils of hell onto New Orleans, so zombies and spiders
run rampant with colorful results—until some brave soul faces the
demons and saves mankind. <Yawn>... Isn’t that just nice? Now bring on
the GORE!
Well... this one unlucky family just happened to have good ol’ pop
ravaged by some zombies and now they have to go identify the body in
the morgue. However, while the kid waits outside, mom gets the hell
scared out of her by some zombies and spiders in the morgue and passes
out.
Then, just as the kid
walks into the room after hearing all the commotion of evil, she sees
some of those evil giant spiders knock over a big ol` vat of acid that
just happened to be placed on the edge of a shelf without a lid. Yep,
that's exactly how I would safely store a jug o' acid... wouldn't you?
Of course, it’s at this
point that Fulci does his trademark of the overdramatic "close-up of
the eyes" shot. Showing this twisted Pippi Longstocking-looking kid’s
disgusted face up waaaay too close! I think I could see her pores! Is
that close enough for you, Fulci?
What she is seeing is
her passed out mom’s face getting completely eaten away by the acid
that is spilling into it! While this animation is great looking, it
happens very fast. The real scene of her face melting away takes
FOREVER to watch all of the decay take place. It’s long, but
extremely cool...
Ugh, I don’t know what’s
better looking at rotting zombies and women with their faces being
slowly melted away by acid or having to stare at Pippi some more!
Either way, thanks for the nightmares Fulci!
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