Yeah, it came almost immediately after "The Exorcist" and seems to be commonly chocked-up as just another entry in the "demon" craze of the time - along with "Rosemary's Baby", "Abby", and "The Omen" - but you cannot help but fall for "Beyond the Door"'s kick ass Italian charm. Rosemary was carrying Satan's offspring and birthed an evil child for a cult of old wackadoos. Damien WAS the son of Satan and had a few inventive methods of killing off folks. Regan was just a girl spouting non-lady-like expletives and pea soup spew. Jessica Barrett, however, is pregnant with a demonic child AND horribly possessed by a violent tempered entity AND is haunted by the trapped spirit of an ex-lover! Oh, and that's not all, boys and girls! She turns on her loving hubby and snot-nosed, brat kids, eats her own puke - dolls come to life, Juliet Mills flashes the ol cooch, locks lips with a toddler and hilarious street performers hastle a defenseless "square" simply walking down the sidewalk for an extended amount of time...
That pretty much sums it up. Actually, I liked this thing MORE than "The Exorcist". Fans of Italian horror and demonic possession should definitely grab ahold of "Beyond the Door"...
Yeah, it came almost immediately after "The Exorcist" and seems to be commonly chocked-up as just another entry in the "demon" craze of the time - along with "Rosemary's Baby", "Abby", and "The Omen" - but you cannot help but fall for "Beyond the Door"'s kick ass Italian charm. Rosemary was carrying Satan's offspring and birthed an evil child for a cult of old wackadoos. Damien WAS the son of Satan and had a few inventive methods of killing off folks. Regan was just a girl spouting non-lady-like expletives and pea soup spew. Jessica Barrett, however, is pregnant with a demonic child AND horribly possessed by a violent tempered entity AND is haunted by the trapped spirit of an ex-lover! Oh, and that's not all, boys and girls! She turns on her loving hubby and snot-nosed, brat kids, eats her own puke - dolls come to life, Juliet Mills flashes the ol cooch, locks lips with a toddler and hilarious street performers hastle a defenseless "square" simply walking down the sidewalk for an extended amount of time...
