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I think the Beyond is a great horror film. The story didn't make a lot of sense... but Fulci wasn't worried about that. He just wanted to create these spooky unusual situations.
If you ever get the chance see it in a theater, do it. The extreme closeups on gross decay/ dissolving/ spurting fluids are more like an abstract expressionist painting than a gore film.
Once we had a bunch of friends over for a Fulci zombie trilogy party. For the occasion we invented a zombie movie drinking game. The rules are:
1. When someone takes a long time to figure out that you have to shoot the zombies in the head, take a drink.
2. When someone who already knows that they have to shoot the zombies in the head STILL doesn't shoot them in the head, drink your whole drink.
The worst film for that game is the Bruno Mattei film Hell of the Living Dead AKA Night of the Zombies. You will be drunk within thirty minutes.
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