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Originally posted by Tat2
If you look at the film for what it is; a very low budget "B" movie. Fulci and Argento have a knack for creating SFX that are more inline with the bigger budget films of the same era. They don't spent the money on highly paid actors, locations etc, but do produce effective movies.
If you try to compare movies such as Seven Doors of Death with big budget movies like The Exorcist you will almost always be unhappy. It took me awhile to accept the Italian movies, thinking they were all bad, because I would always compare them to the bigger budget, U.S. made movies.
I finally figured out that I was missing a big part of good horror by excluding what I automatically thought was terrrible movies if they were Italian.
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This is why I compared it to Zombi 2 so much. They're in the same sub-genre, league, whatever you want to call it, so there's no bullshit excuse for Seven Doors of Death/The Beyond to be so bad when Zombi 2 is so good.
Although, the "you can't compare it to big-budget movies" line doesn't hold up so well anymore anyways.