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Post by classichorrorfan on Oct 17, 2023 6:17:20 GMT -5
"Beyond The Door" is an Italian horror film from the 1970s that is one of the films that the makers of "The Exorcist" tried to sue, but did not get a case against them because this film is not similar enough. Its idea is more like "The Exorcist" meets "Rosemary's Baby." There are a few head turning scenes in there like the famous one in "The Exorcist," but it does tell an original story that is different from most. It begins with a voice-over playing the devil, saying he will not appear in the movie, but will be an important factor in the story. He then said he used to be portrayed, drawn, and sculpted in many different ways over the milleniums, but now he is lucky just to even be mentioned. He then says he has adapted to that new rule and is still making his share of appearances in different ways from before. The story then opens with a man protecting a lady from a demon trying to possess her, then driving off in his car with the devil's voice telling him all he had to do was to let him possess the lady, but since he denied the devil's will, the devil will now deny him. His car's tires then come loose and wobbly will driving on a narrow windy road on a cliff before skidding off the road and over the cliff with an ocean below. The picture then freezes with the devil's voice saying he can have one more chance if he can get another lady to become pregnant with the devil's child and to make sure the child is born. The story then passes to a young married couple with two small children driving home with the little girl having a lot of vulgar and profane but humorous dialogue. It then turns that the mother is pregnant, but the father denies them going far enough to make another baby, and she is also on the pill. She had the test done twice to confirm that she is pregnant with a third child on the way. The man at the beginning pursues an spies on the married couple until eventually approaching the husband, saying that the wife needs his help and he is the only one who can help her, and the child must be born. The husband thinks the other man is nuts at first, and tells him to stop following him, but then the wife starts acting and talking all crazy, as if she were possessed, including the head twists and similar yacking to the famous scenes in "The Exorcist." The story then takes countless amounts of twists, turns, and eye opening shocking scenes to make it intense and keeping interest all the way through. This should not disappoint those into "The Exorcist," "Rosemary's Baby," "The Omen," and the like.
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