'...you gotta stop that, or it's going to blow my mind. Man if you don't quit crying, you're gonna have a really bad trip. For Pete's sake, get under the blanket and cool it, will you?'
"Beyond the Door" is pretty much a combination of "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist"--though with none of the style or quality of these films. It's an Italian-made film--with some English speaking actors and some Italians who are dubbed. However, unlike most Italian films, much of this was made in the US.
The film begins with some really silly dialog from Satan as well as some full-frontal nudity that seemed very gratuitous. This is all part of some strange introduction that doesn't make a lot of sense.
The scene now switches to San Francisco and shows a very bizarre set of kids with their mother, played by Juliette Mills. This entire family is weird--with the boy constantly drinking condensed Campbell's Green Pea soup (??) and the sister using some of the most bizarre and inappropriate dialog I've ever heard. Part of it, I am sure, is for shock value and part of it is simply bad writing (see the example at the top of the review). As for the husband, he lives in complete denial, as throughout the film his wife becomes increasingly bizarre and possessed and yet he refuses to get her professional help. All this, apparently, because she carries the spawn of Satan within her.
So is this any good? Well, yes and no. The film is dumb and derivative. The writing, especially the writing, is just terrible. But, no the other hand, I must admit that the special effects for Mills were pretty amazing for 1974. Worth seeing if you have very, very low standards.
"Beyond the Door" is pretty much a combination of "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist"--though with none of the style or quality of these films. It's an Italian-made film--with some English speaking actors and some Italians who are dubbed. However, unlike most Italian films, much of this was made in the US.
The film begins with some really silly dialog from Satan as well as some full-frontal nudity that seemed very gratuitous. This is all part of some strange introduction that doesn't make a lot of sense.
The scene now switches to San Francisco and shows a very bizarre set of kids with their mother, played by Juliette Mills. This entire family is weird--with the boy constantly drinking condensed Campbell's Green Pea soup (??) and the sister using some of the most bizarre and inappropriate dialog I've ever heard. Part of it, I am sure, is for shock value and part of it is simply bad writing (see the example at the top of the review). As for the husband, he lives in complete denial, as throughout the film his wife becomes increasingly bizarre and possessed and yet he refuses to get her professional help. All this, apparently, because she carries the spawn of Satan within her.
So is this any good? Well, yes and no. The film is dumb and derivative. The writing, especially the writing, is just terrible. But, no the other hand, I must admit that the special effects for Mills were pretty amazing for 1974. Worth seeing if you have very, very low standards.