The Beyond poster

The Beyond

Beyond death...Beyond Evil...Beyond the dreaded gates of hell.

6.9(706)19811h 28m4

New Yorker Liza Merril inherits an old hotel in Louisiana and invests her savings to reopen the place, unaware that the hotel houses the body of a dead painter murdered decades earlier, and that the location is about to become a gateway to Hell.

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Status
Released
Budget
$400K
Box office
$123.8K
Language
Italian
  • hotel
  • experiment
  • new orleans, louisiana
  • hell
  • gore
  • surrealism
  • morgue
  • undead
  • grindhouse
  • zombie
  • gothic horror
  • gothic

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR11 Nov 1983
    • TheatricalNRre-release12 Jun 1998
    • Theatrical (limited)NRNew York Museum of Arts and Design16 Jul 2010
    • Theatrical (limited)NRNew Orleans Film Festival18 Oct 2014
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalX (original rating, cut) 27 Aug 1981
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical18A11 Nov 1983
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical14 Mar 1983
    • Theatrical (limited)NatFilm Festival30 Mar 2003
  • FinlandFI

    • PhysicalK-18DVD premiere17 Aug 2006
    • PremiereK-18Night Visions Film Festival30 Oct 2014
    • TheatricalK-184K restoration19 Jul 2024
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical1614 Oct 1981
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical18(Banned) (original rating)22 Apr 1981
  • GreeceGR

    • Theatrical (limited)Panorama of European Cinema20 Nov 2012
  • Hong KongHK

    • TheatricalIII11 Jul 1981
  • HungaryHU

    • Theatrical5 Apr 2007
  • ItalyIT

    • TheatricalVM1829 Apr 1981
  • JapanJP

    • Physicalvideo premiere28 Aug 1986
    • Theatrical (limited)Tokyo Intenational Zombie Film Festival1 Mar 2011

Frequently asked questions

The Beyond was released on 22 April 1981.

Audience reviews

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    Wuchak

    5/8/2026

    5/10

    **_A New York woman inherits a cursed house outside of New Orleans_** This is southern gothic horror and the second in Lucio Fulci’s unofficial ‘gateways to hell’ trilogy, which all center around a portal to the underworld and include actress Catriona MacColl in three different roles (credited as Katherine MacColl). The first film was “City of the Living Dead” from the year prior, and the third one is “The House b…

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