|
I didn't like The Beyond when I fist saw it (albeit in its cut form) either - and I remember why: it seemed to be badly acted, dubbed, put together, and most damagingly didn't appeal to my sense of teenage cool at the time.
Of course it could just simply be a bad film to some and always remain that way, but assessing it now (based on last viewing about 5 years ago) the almost subversive, sheer anti-cinema of The Beyond (and 80's Italian horror in general) shines on through to command respect. Although the scene is changing now with so-called 'torture-porn' (awful tag!), this is probably due to the damaging self-referential and anti-hero glut of 'safe' horror in the 1990s, when many of us were forced to look outside of Hollywood and the USA in search of more exploitative, less predictable fun.
__________________
|