Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: THE BEYOND
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2022
- Infamous Italian director Lucio Fulci returns to the show with 1981's "The Beyond"
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To those who hate bad things happening to eyeballs: beware!
I hate bad stuff happening to eye balls i rather do cock and ball torcher to Bruce Vilanch
I've been waiting for this one bruh, this one of my all time favorites from fulci zombie is at the top of the list
Aberrations 1997
A good eyeball violation is good for character building. It makes you tough!
Oh well. I'll just listen to "Doctor My Eyes" by Jackson Browne after this flick.
I think Fulci’s loose grip on logic works to his advantage in his horror films as it lends his work a fever dream quality.
Holy crap Brando! I didn’t know you were gonna say “fever dream” too, omglolz
"I've lived in New York my whole life" Says Catriona with her obvious English accent.
Luigi lived in Springfield his whole life and has an Italian accent
@@Giran_0 Luigi's from Springfield, Sicily
@@TheBrandonTenold what? I'm talking about Luigi from the Simpsons
My college cinema series showed this as the second half of a double feature (opposite Shock Waves). The it was around the spider scene where I thought, as Tom Servo once said, "you know what, this movie is a little weird"
"Shock Waves" is an interesting choice. What was the original second feature movie, "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things"?
@@TheBrandonTenold Maybe it was Zombie lake. I often get that one and Shock Waves mixed up. Zombie lake is the one with very few zombies in it, right? Lol
Shock Waves is the one with Peter Cushing.
Zombie Lake has a little girl who aged only eight years in 20+@@Pocketrocket-pj1us
I've had a crap day and a new Brandon's cult movie review is a welcome treat. Who'd have thought Fulci and riffing would be a depression treatment.
RIGHT? Brandon’s rage against “Kenny’s” gives me life !
Fulci: good for what ails ya (unless you hate spiders)
@@TheBrandonTenold Luckiy I've seen the Beyond featured on shows about gore levels in movies, video nasties and italian horror so I knew what was coming. You're doing the good work we all need Mister Tenold.
Always look forward to his reviews! Feel u bro
"Don't make me shoot you everywhere but the head!"
Bravo, Brandon
The actors commentary on the DVD is one of the funniest things you will ever hear.
As a sci fi and horror b-movie enthusiast, growing up in Italy in the 90s (I'm 44), I can't stress enough how difficult it was for us to find these movies back then without the internet! There were literally two specialized shops selling sub par quality vhs copies, so it was easier for us to buy them from London via mail order. It makes so little sense if you think about it, the idea that Italian productions were close to impossible to find in the very country that birthed them! 😅 Thank fuck for fanzines and magazines specialized in splatter, gore and sci fi, otherwise we would have never even heard about them. Kids today have zero clues how easy they have it.
I feel this deep in my soul.
How do you think we got them here in the states? Same way bubba.
Actually it was thanks to Quentin' Tarrantino's rerelease company that I got to see The Beyond in the theatre, back in 98. It was also my first time ever seeing it and it's been my favorite horror film ever since. Thanks QT!
It was easier to buy them from London, in the UK, the country that probably still had them BANNED and get them mailed to you, than in Italy, the country that PRODUCED THE MOVIE?! Where did this movie get played originally, if it wasn't available in Italy? Man, that is strange.
I remember Video Search of Miami and their low-quality $20 tapes, but they were uncut and better than relying on trades. And don't get me started on DVD's and having to damn-near triple dip just to get the right cut of a movie! These days, they're all a click away. Thanks, internet.
I absolutely adore this one. Sure, the story is perfunctory, but when it comes to creepy and haunting visuals and unsettling atmosphere, this one takes the cake.
Absolutely!!! Thank you for recognizing that!! Not many do sadly
@@katelynkoenig848 I can't take things seriously if the story is wonky.
@@everforward5561 funny, I don’t remember asking you.
@@everforward5561 It's not wonky, if anything it's the opposite. It's. . . bare. They don't explain shit, it's mostly up to your interpretation.
And gore effects, don't forget the gore effects ;) Same here and I agree =)
Is it an Italian Horror movie thing to poke out eyeballs?
It's definitely a Fulci thing
1981: "I've lived in New York my whole life, and if there's one thing I've learned not to believe in is ghosts."
1984: "Who you gonna call...?"
Zing! =)
THE EXTERMINATOR!
"We're ready to believe you!"
I've always considered Lucio Fulci to be Italy's version of Don Coscarelli. What his movies lack in plot or sense is made up for in atmosphere and special effects. It leaves you wondering what you just watched, but you're glad that you did.
I love this idea!!!Coscarelli reminds me so much of Italian ambiences. You are so right!
D'ya know what... I never subconsciously linked the two, yet now that you mention it, you might have nailed the reason why I'm a fan of both.
Lucio Fulci's movies are like this from the get-go. "Phantasm" is the way it is because it's a 3 hr movie cut down to 90 minutes.
@@ConstantineFurman and yet, I'm willing to bet that the 3-hour version would have made just as much sense as the 90-minute one.
@@evildoughboy7773 double the time, double the confusion. More bang for your buck.
Can't wait for you to do House by the Cemetary. The Kenny(Bob) jokes are going to be epic!
I'll probably have to start calling them "Bob's" after that movie
@@TheBrandonTenold 🤣🤣🤣
"Bob" also makes a hilarious appearance in A Blade in the Dark as a bullied kid😂😂😂
The soundtrack and cinematography in this one (as like most Fulci films) are just gorgeous.
Don’t you mean… _gore_ geous?
"Shoots zombie torsos multiple times, establishes shooting in the head kills them, proceeds casually pumping zombie torsos w bullets"
It's like Bruno Mattei's "Hell of the Living Dead" all over again!
I'm only five minutes in and you're right about the cinematography, it really does look very beautiful and creepy all at once :=)
God damn it McCabe! If you're gonna keep forgetting to shoot the zombies in the head then I'm gonna stop rooting for you!
I mean at LEAST shoot em' in the eyeball! It's a Fulci movie!
Warbeck said that Fulci made him keep shooting them in the body for more blood effects.
I'm surprised Brandon didn't make a Bruno Mattei joke here!
Reminds me of the Cinema Snob's review!
Indirectly inspired by Brandon, I watched "The Beyond" some time ago. It's bonkers, gory, atmospheric, and I loved it!
Often when a film is made without apparent logic, the individual scenes are also incoherent; whereas with this film it's always clear *what* is happening, it's just there's not much sense to *why* things happen or how they connect with each other.
Esatto perché Fulci descrive un incubo,però se ti piacciono di più le storie lineari puoi sempre vedere i gialli del maestro
Have you seen city of the living dead?
I laughed way too hard at "it's a Fulci movie, so better enjoy some eyeballs while they're still intact".
I LITERALLY REWATCHED THIS LAST NIGHT AND WONDERED IF YOU WERE GONNA CONTINUE THE TRILOGY!
I love Fulci, the surreal atmosphere in his films, but this trilogy in particular is fantastic. The beyond is one of the best horror films ever in my opinion. Beautifully shot and perhaps the most atmospheric film ever. Also, IMO one of the greatest endings ever.
Quite funnily, so did I. I reckon it's Fulci season.
Best horror films ever? Is it fun to watch? Yes. But it ends there. If you can explain what the frig is going on with this thing, sign up for the hunter Huffer kits the government is handing out.
@@fatboy1603 I can explain what's going on in this movie. It's basically "A NIghtmare on Elm Street" but the guy behind the madness DOESN'T want to call attention to himself. In 1927, Schweick discovers one of the gates of hell and how to close it. However, the townspeople gang up on him, thinking him to be a witch (there's no such thing as a warlock. "Warlock" is a Celtic word for "liar") and kill him. So, Schweick takes the attitude of "Okay, I was gonna save you, but then you brutally murdered me, so now I'm gonna open the gates of hell and destroy you all." Schweick is causing everything that happens in the movie to happen out of pure malice. And at the end of the movie, the gates of hell open and our heroes become trapped in it.
Lucio Fulci's best movie, hands down
Fulci films were not really known for their coherent story or logic.
It was all about the atmosphere, music, and fantastic effects and gore.
Scary is how much Catriona MacColl looks like Heather Graham.
"Let's put a happy little Crypt riiiight over here."
Haha "It's YOUR world (forever now)..."
Brandon: An Italian director using his real name? What sorcery is this?
Fulchi: Vinculo.
13:54 One man's "creepy nurses" is another man's "sexy, sexy nurses."
One of the saddest endings of any horror movie. Fulci's view of hell as a bleak wasteland seems more effective than the traditional depiction of raging infernos.
Agree completely! One of the best endings in film history of you ask me. And the desolate wasteland is indeed more effective.
The ending to The House by the Cemetery also had quite a depressing ending. Not as grand as The Beyond but damn it was still a rather depressing ending.
Hilariously, the raging infernos thing is a relatively recent innovation. Most of the older hells WERE bleak desolate wastelands. When people stopped being so concerned about that hell evolved more into 'Well, now you're on fire, asshole, and there's guys stabbing you! THAT scary for you?'. In the old testament Sheol was the underworld, check it out.
Like Canada in the winter. Thank god for central heating.
I wonder if this is where they got the idea for the ending of "The Void."
The ending is what Fulci considers will happen to atheists when they enter the afterlife.
Film editor Bob Murawski, who's BFF's with Sam Raimi, runs a DVD distribution company called Grindhouse Releasing and is the one who restored all the lost and cut footage for the '98 DVD release in the US. He also used a couple of the shots of the spider attack sequence from The Beyond in 2002's Spider-Man.
The footage wasn't "restored." They just got an international print of the film from Italy. They couldn't work from "7 Doors of Death" because it's an entirely different cut of the movie.
And I'm pretty sure it was Sage Stallone's doing that got the movie re-released over here.
As Mike Bracken (The Horror Geek) would say, "The Fulci eye zoom"
A zoom is the least horrible thing that can happen to eyes in a Fulci movie
@@TheBrandonTenold Haha yep, Fulci's cameraman is telling you that eye will soon be no more.
Now I'm really wondering if Brandon will ever review Anthropophagous
At 14:57 Catriona MacColl smiles because David Warbeck was reloading his gun by the barrel.
That was a joke improv by Warbeck because Fulci didn't want him to even bother reloading the gun. And it wound up staying in the movie.
In a movie, if you're inheriting ANYTHING, it's cursed and your immediate circle of friends will all die while you seem mildly concerned about them but absolutely fascinated with the past behind what's clearly an item from Hell.
The fabulous Book of Eibon
aka. Liber Ivonis
aka. Livre d'Eibon
is a magic book (plot vehicle)
created by the author
Clark Ashton Smith
in his story entitled Ubbo-Sathla,
being a contribution story
to the Cthulhu Mythos (created by H.P. Lovecraft).
Supposedly the text was written in ancient Hyperborean
(Hyperborea depicted as the land of Conan, envisioned by Robert E. Howard).
So i guess in a tertiary sense
that makes this film an homage to H.P. Lovecraft through Clark Ashton Smith.
So oki yes that is nice.
Thanks -- I was wondering if anyone else caught the Book of Eibon reference, although I just recalled the title from your basic list of Lovecraftian evil old recluses' rare texts. (Was it Lin Carter who questioned how rare could they be if all those old recluses had a copy?)
A couple of nitpicks here:
1) Smith's Hyperborean is not Howard's Hyperborea. Smith's Hyperborea was ancient Greenland. Howard's Hyperborea was a semicivilized country during Howard's Hyborean Age.
2) Hyperborea was not the land of Conan. Conan was from Cimmeria and became king of Aquilonia. He had a dislike of the Hyperboreans because they captured him in his younger years.
Otherwise good post.
@@TheThejayman32 Nice~! i had no knowing that Smith's Hyperborea was Greenland!
When I rented this back in the day (mid 80s) I and my friends were in complete disbelief at the scene where the window explodes killing Al Cliver. We ran the tape back over and over laughing our asses off. I knew nothing of Lucio Fulci yet but that would quickly change- I knew I'd found a filmmaker after my own heart.
ive never commented here , just wanna say i really dont enjoy horror movies or i guess i never really gotten into them but some how i found you a couple years ago and been watching ever since ... i really enjoy ur take and knowledge on the movies ... just wanted to drop you a line and tell ya to keep up the good work!
Ah, Pippi Longstocking movie. It was quite the travesty. Then again, the books read like they were written by someone on drugs, so quality is in the eye of the beholder.
"eye" of the beholder. I see what you did there...
Absolutely love the visuals here, and yeah, it’s confusing as all can be.
Do forget the music, my god the music is beautifully haunting.
THE BEYOND dvd features audio commentary with MacColl and Warbeck, who was very ill and passed away shortly after recording it. He has some fun at the expense of the fake spiders, and as previously mentioned, points out the scene in the elevator where he tries to load a bullet into the gun barrel, making MacColl smile. MacColl found some of the gore hard to watch.
The best commentary track ever recorded for DVD.
thank goodness he's reviewing this one ive been wanting him to do this one for the longest hopefully he does the whole trilogy
YESS! the best lucio fulci movie! the masterpiece of BEYONDDDD... now we need the last one , The House by the Cemetery
That one's on the back burner.
Yes because remember it's the censors job to protect you from reality🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️ I believe this is the one that ran out of money and doesn't really have an ending. But don't quote me on that.
Aaaah finally another Fulci classick. Do Zombie next!
Okay. Honestly this day just keeps getting better & better. Granted Canadian style but I'm not complaining. Also this guy must love the Three Stooges eyepoke. You know if Moe drove his fingers through Curly & Larry's skull.
I remember this movie being shown on "Billy Bobb's Action Theatre" on WGGT 48. The scene where the pigtails girl sees the lady's face melted by acid and the bloody acid following her haunted me as a kid. Doesn't help when the guy host a horror movie show & cartoon show with same gimmick.
@@steveolou yeah. We didn't have the fancy local hosts back then.
Well, there is your problem, you should not have watched this as a kid, this is not a movie for kids...
Was "Billy Bobb" a local equivalent to Joe Bob?
@@TheBrandonTenold Yes. He was like your southern uncle who would show you cartoons during the afternoons and horror movies on Saturday nights.
I'm really excited to hear your thoughts on this movie it's one of lucio fulcis best in my opinions
I took a tequila shot everytime he said Fulci, now im shitfaced
Oh yeah tarantulas, which the Italians believe that if you got bit by one, you would go into this crazy dance.
Award for Least Convincing Accent to Claim "I've in New York all my life" goes to...
The "Meanwhile in Silent Hill" line, got me.
My favorite Lucio Fulci movie 🥰
I'm convinced Brandon is not aging. I watched some of his videos from years ago, he looks the same. Vampire? 🧛🏻♂️
Nah, we just don't get much sun up here in Canada
This movie has an amazing OST, one of my all time favorites. Some of the songs are really beautiful.
7 Doors to Death finally. I remember buying the box set at the MoVal mall, best thing ever.
I’m surprised that in the 1927 scene the Mob wasn’t after the Black Guy
"Head, @$$hole!!"
Lmao
You are constantly hilarious, Brandon. 😂👍
Yay!!! I love when you do horror!! This is one of my favorite weird Italian movies! Yay!
Wait... she comes from New York and she DOESN'T believe in ghosts?
Such a nice surprise to see you review this one! I saw it in college around 2004, and have loved it ever since! Though it has its moment of cheeze, the overall practical effects, plot, and background score are fantastic, not to mention to the finale!
Really liked this one. Probably my 2nd fav. Fulchi movie, behind Zombie.
I watched The Beyond with my family like two months ago. What a great family movie!
Oh hi Brandon!
The shuffling dead reminded me of a scene in MONSTROUS REGIMENT by Terry Pratchett in which City Watch Commander Sir Samuel Vimes calls in his zombie copper, Reg, to tell them there's a problem with the zombie soldiers in the crypt. Reg asks if they're lurching (he'll sort them out).
They weren’t even proper zombies, there was no embracing of the possibilities offered by life after death.
Remember “Undead yes, unperson no”!
'lurching' dead is a much more British term
@@TheBrandonTenold the "lurching dead" end up in the House of Lords.
Yes been waiting for you to cover this!
16:24
This was supposed to be an atheist's vision of hell. Also there was supposed to be a continuation graphic novel tittled "Escape from The Beyond" but it never came out.
Awesome review man. Always looking forward to these!
Why does the cinematography kinda similar to early resident evil games ? Like the camera angle and set design, like replace the demon plot line with a crazy doctor that hellbent on fiding immortality and you get the best resident evil movie ever made.
1:34 Isn't that the same sound effect that One Must Fall 2097 has in its intro?
It's about time you posted a video!!!!!!!!
Alright! It's been quite a while since Brandon done a review on an Italian movie, a Lucio Fulci movie at that too!
at 6:07
_"...how dare you"_
One of the few channels I watch every episode of, thanks Brandon
Saw this a few years back after your vids helped renew my interest in B and horror flicks. Definitely glad I checked it out. Awesome review as always!
14:55 i like how he tries to reload the gun by putting a bullet down the barrel
I could swear you already did this one but I'm old and my memory is poor
I wonder if it's the German sheperd from Suspiria.
Thank you. I don't mind not having things explained, I like figuring them out for myself. That being said, this looks like it makes enough sense for me.
Thanks B. Was hoping you would get round to this one. Beyond is my favorite Fulci and I know it doesn't make a lick of godd@mn sense but it's beautiful camera work, striking F/X and dream logic are almost if Lucio teamed up with Argento at times. Always a pleasure to see a new episode. 🤟🤠
14:15 Too bad Resident Evil wouldn't come out for another 15 years so he'd know that the magnum blows the zombies' heads clean off in one shot!
Despite being on a budget, they were able to make Great photography/effects/lightning and acting Is good, the film holds up well, Is able to be scary and enjoyable
Really enjoyed watching this for the first time last Halloween. Great to see Brandon review it.
My favorite fulci movie, this is such a treat
Thank you for the great review of Fulci`s masterpiece! I want to give some additional information on the movie and I hope it`s not already included in some of the many comments below.
-- First: the beginning of the movie, which plays in the Twenties, was changed from the original version. It was coloured from it`s original full colour to that orange/red colour which you saw in your version of it and which you showed in your movie-clips. They wanted it to look less bloody and gory. However, the full-colour version exists and is one of the most bloody and brutal sequences I ever saw in a movie. It was included in 1981 in the version dubbed in Germany into German language. The movie -which was later banned and then cut here- first received a very good German version which also included a perfect rendering of those scenes at the beginning of the movie. The scenes are given in a shining full four-coloured picture-quality. You can see every detail! (The scene, in which the warlock is beaten to death with chains resembles somehow
the similar scene in Fulci`s movie "Don`t torture a duckling", in which the woman is killed by use of chains.) I think that colourizing into orange colour was done by the Italians only for those countries where the movie might have censorship-problems as they thought. (It didn`t help anyway.)
--Second: Only for the record: The "Book of Eibon" is -so to speak- the second most important magic book in Lovecraft`s imaginary worlds. (His Necronomicon is Number One.) It was added in the Thirties by fantasy-writer Clark Ashton Smith and Lovecraft himself integrated it into his works. Fulci likes to allude to Lovecraft`s works sometimes, for instance by making use of the city of Dunwich or at least it`s name.
Last thing I noticed: The very last sentence of the movie which was given in the movie-clip in your review has a totally different meaning as the one in the version dubbed into German. In the first german version, which was extremely good and well translated, the sentence is not something like "to explore" that world of the beyond, but it says something -roughly translated- like "you will be absorbed" by the beyond. I have to watch it again. But the ending makes clear that they will have to remain there forever and that there will be no return or hope. One would have to check the Italian version. But "to explore it" sounds much more positive than "to be aborbed into it".
3:43 which Is weird,, for apparently, Fulci worked as a cardiologist prior to becoming a filmaker, so he should have known a lot about health 👍😁
I really love your videos, they very funny and very entertaining. Keep on making more videos man!!
What a great vid!! I was laughing my ass off! Your sarcasm is spot on. Looking forward to your next vid.
4:47
Your right dude. That scene made me throw up all over the floor and laugh. Dude here’s a suggestion do Scott Pilgrim vs the world.
Brandon doesn't do the new stuff, only the much older, more obscure stuff. :)
The book of Eibon?! That's from Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborea, a prehistoric version of Necronomicon
Regarding why he didn't move during the spider attack: poor bastard was paralyzed, but still conscious. Makes me wince just thinking about it.
Best content on CZcams! Always entertaining. Keep up the good work, Brandon!
Always excited when u upload
Makes sense that one of the gates to Hell would be in New Orleans.
Hi! Good video. I'm italian 🇮🇹 but I realized only a few years ago how much this national genre directors have produced in 60s, 70s and 80s, and also influenced the western horror cinema.
Indeed, I think italian entertaing have created so much revolutionary things in this decades that from late 80s have no more things to say and begin to be in crisis.
CONGRATS on 200K+ subs.......WAY TO GO BRANDON!
"...he makes it both beautiful and weirdly creepy" - Louisiana in a nutshell
The Candlemass song Demon's Gate is inspired by this movie. You should do The Sentinel (1977) someday. That movie also has a strange, surreal atmosphere.
That is not to mention Europe's Seven Doors Hotel.
One of Fulci's best movies along with in my opinion New York Ripper
Imo that movie was a bit of a quack
@@magicalpasta5462 lol
Another Lucio Fulchi spectacular…gore, wtf moments creepy, often wacky, generally all over the place & entertaining as hell. Big fan of Italian giallo. Long live horror movies!!!!
I thought Joe the Plumber was the lost MacLean brother for a second there.
No matter what still absolutely love these videos
At 14:55 it appears like he was gonna reload the revolver but it looks like he's trying to insert a bullet directly into the end of the barrel... only the end they come out of!
He keeps forgetting where to shoot the zombies, so it makes sense he doesn't know how to load a gun