The Beyond
Director: Lucio Fulci
Year Released: 1981
Rating: 3.0
Going to agree with the euro-horror experts and say that The Beyond, for its many flaws, is probably Fulci's finest achievement – a plethora of mainstream critics think it's laughably awful, but I find it to be great camp. It's one thing to make a dull horror film with only sporadic moments of carnage, but Fulci never runs out of fake blood, and he keeps things moving along, his restless energy preventing complete stagnation. It is undoubtedly his best 'looking' film, with splendid visuals and an unforgettable shot on a bridge with a blind woman and her dog; indeed, this is the picture that captures all of Fulci's past fascinations into one neat package: zombies, eye-gouging, disfigurement, unsettling things taking place in the basement, supernatural goings-on and outright nihilism, captured in the last, and admittedly spooky, final scene.
