![]() I’m not sure what made the choice to be to bring MacColl back instead, but I’m glad she is here. Actually, he wanted to go back to his Zombie star, Tisa Farrow. However, she was not Fulci’s first choice. MacColl would go on to say this was definitely her favorite of the three movies. She’s inherited this Louisiana hotel that happens to be pretty much where the titular beyond rests under. This isn’t just the second of the Gates of Hell trilogy, but it’s also the second of the Catriona MacColl trilogy of Fulci flicks too. When De Angelis was trying to figure out what that weird shit is, Fulci just kind of blurted out “the beyond!” De Angelis probably felt like that hit him like a ton of bricks because that sounded like a pretty bitchin’ title. Fulci was talking about people buying this house and finding out that it sits atop some weird shit. That just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? However, the title everyone likes, The Beyond, just basically came about in regular ol’ conversation between Fulci and De Angelis. In Italy, the title translates literally to And You Will Live in Terror! The Afterlife. The existence of the various gates to the underworld and to all sorts of horrors was the ultimate unifying thread in an otherwise loosely connected trilogy of films on a thematic level. ![]() Right away, they set out to make another horror film, and Fulci had this trilogy concerning different people in different areas all unknowingly living above a literal gate to hell. The very next collaboration toward that end was City of the Living Dead. However, when it was received with fear, the duo decided to actually turn their attentions toward making a real, straightforward horror flick. He says the goal was to make people laugh and feel giddy excitement when they saw the zombies. De Angelis claims that the original plan on that 1979 masterpiece was to make something of a comic book movie. Let’s first go back in time a couple years to Fulci’s production of Zombie with producer Fabrizio De Angelis. So, buckle up and prepare for this week’s dose of B-Movie Enema! Now it’s time to get to what most would usually list as the best of the trio, The Beyond. I’ve already knocked out the first chapter, City of the Living Dead, last month. Now, this is the Italian stuff I look forward to covering.Īfter taking on Hercules twice in a row, now I get to return to the warm embrace of Lucio Fulci with his Gates of Hell trilogy.
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