Seven Doors of Death
 

I just found Lucio Fulci's Seven Doors of Death (AKA as "E Tu Vivrai Nel Terrore - L'Aldila') on DVD for $6.99. this is the first time that I've seen it for sale and the first time that I've heard of it. I bought it because it was directed by Fulci so I couldn't loose. Anyone ever see it? :confused:

I thought that was just another title for The Beyond?

It is.
Its the US censored version.

Seen it. Liked it! :D

uncensored ?

i have the anchor bay tin .. doesnt look like it could possibly be censored.

christ i wish i could have paid $6.99 for mine !

I´ve got "the byond". There is a man (zombie) with a bad makeup effect on the cover.

Copied it. It sucks

I wanna see it again now.

I´ll be back! :cool: :)

i took a lot of flack for alluding to that same thing ..

I found that it was all over the place - like a patchwork kilt ..

I love italian zombie horror but this just rubbed me the wrong way.

People will say it isnt supposed to make sense (it's surreal baby!) and it's style over substance .. etc ... and although there are a lot of films that are more style than smart - this one didnt do it for me ...

ordered the thing on DVD, paid 25.99 for it. The cheapest movie on dvd i have ever bought was Sleepaway camp and The House by the Cemetary. Each was 4.99

yeah there is a cheap version of House by the Cemetary out .. the cover looks like a photocopy .. that the one ?

I bought it but soon upgraded when i found the anchor bay version (it has some extras) havent done a picture comparrison though ..


the anchor bay ver. is widescreen as well..

Fair enough. :)

I think i like this one, because it´s not a zombie movie as much as a movie about hell rising from below a house. thats a nice theme, i think.

There is absolutely no doubt that all Fulci´s movies are B-movies. But sometimes that just dosn´t matter, like the case is with "The beyond". :D

I bought it for 9.99 at Best Buy. It even has a commentary .

I like it, it's not my favorite from Italy, though. Argento kicks Fulci's ass any day.

Pleeeeeease.....

It's not all bad. Like most supernatural-style Euro horror movies from that era, it had good cinematography. But since most did have that, it doesn't count for much. The acting was bad, the dubbing was bad, the writing was bad, the makeup was bad, the plot made no sense, the deaths were contrived and went on forever (and too often predictable. I called that the dog would kill the blind chick the second it walked back into frame in that scene), the male lead was completely useless except for looking like the love child of Sean Bean and Henry Fonda, and the ending was stupid. This had neither style nor substance. And that was just the censored version. I can't see any possible way that seeing more of that movie would make me like it any more.

It's even more annoying because Fulci is a good director. He's better than this shit. There are some fantastic shots in Zombi 2.

i'd have to agree with that.

his pictures flow a hell of a lot better.

The version of House by the Cemetary that i have is distributed by a company called "Legacy". No special features or anything, just scene index and interactive menu.

Why does the zombies in Fulci´s movies always have to walk slower than slowmotion? Does anybody (except for Fulci, i guess) find that scary?:confused:

From IMDB

Also Known As:
Aldilà, L'
And You Will Live in Terror: The Afterlife
Seven Doors of Death (USA) (censored version)
The Beyond

I think it's that, especially in Fulci and other Italian zombie movies, no matter how slow they are, and no matter how many you kill, there are always hundreds more. So, as slow as they are, there's no way of escaping. Knowing something that slow is going to eat you alive is a bit unnerving, yeah. And if you're in a Fulci movie, something that slow IS going to eat you alive.

Sounds about right..

that ... or a combination of real and fake tarantulas.

No, they'll just eat the glue and latex

Yeah i own it but i bought the anchorbay release (The Beyond) alot better pic. quality and and not censored

I think I have that version as well. The picture is rather nice.

I just watched it. The one I bought is a widescreen edition and a Diamond release. It wasn't bad, but I have seen better. You could easily see the fake tarantulas against the real ones, and the close ups of faces being disfigured was quite obviously fake, but there were some good scenes.

I would have perferred the uncensored version, but for 7 bucks, who can bitch? Its a good addition to a gore hounds movie collection.

did it have the 2 'eyeball scenes' ?
one being a zombie thumb gouging .. and the other being a nail in the back of the head ?

Yeah. I liked both of those scenes! I thought the first death scene with the Worlock and the scourging with the chain and subsequent use of the quick-lime was rather good also.

what was cut out then ???

At the risk of sounding redundant, I again have to draw a comparison between this and Zombi 2. The Beyond has 2 eyeball scenes, which is at least 1 too many and neither one of them are done right. It's just "eyeball gets gouged one way or another, check out the gorey and shitty effects". The eye isn't just gouged and it's over, sure. It's gouged for a little bit.
However, Zombi 2 has 1 eyeball scene. This one is done right. The eyeball is going through the shard of wood. You know that the second the shard of wood is anywhere near the eye. But Fulci makes you sit and wait for it. And THEN they gouge the eye nice and slow like.

Maybe if I'd seen more than 2 Fulci movies I could compare The Beyond to something besides Zombi 2.

again, i concur completely

some folks thing The Beyond is his best though ...

and some folks have sex with children, doesn't mean it makes a good movie

what if the children are good looking 18 year old girls ?

18 = not children

i'm old... 30 seems like children to me :)

I have no idea.

If you´ve seen 2 Fulci movies and didn´t like them, you don´t need to see anymore (Maybe "City of the dead"). They are all the same...

I´m not a big Fulci fan, but i like him better than Argento. They are both B-movie directors, in my eyes, but their prefered genres are very different indeed. Fulci is into zombies and Argento is into Slashers (always a psyco running around killing girls).
I just like zombie movies better than slashers... :)

Fair enough. But I give Argento a lot more credit as a director. His movies are good. And all look and sound spectacular. I just think of Fulci as a shock director, whereas Argento brings you into some weird twisted , cool looking, fairy tale.

Fulci hardly directed any Zombie films.

And only *1* is a pure zombie film ("Zombi 2")

"City" has teleporting zombies, as does "The Beyond" and whether Fraudstein in "House" is a Zombie is still open to debate.

In his short period of prime creativity (with his regualr top notch crew with him) he was far from a hack and even in the cut n paste, copycat World of Italian horror of that period, his films are normally of far higher techniccal and artistic quality than most other films of that ilk (compare "Burial Ground" say to Fulci's zombie films..It's fun for sure, but it's nowhere near the techinal and visual standard of Fulci's films).

And the Giallo influence 9or total emmersion) of Argento's films mean they have actually very little in common with the traditional, very American, 'Slasher' sub-genre.
Even the best 'Slashers' are stripped down in content and style compared to Argento's flamoyant take on the psycho killer..

i havent yet been able to lay my hands on the Argento boigraphy which i would love to read .. I'm betting he'll cite Hitchcock as a major influence.