4K UHD Review – The Beyond

My personal introduction to “The Beyond” was in the mid-1990s. Quentin Tarantino, newly exploring his marketplace powers at the time, co-founded Rolling Thunder Pictures, intending to bring influential exploitation movies to art-house audiences, with the 1981 Lucio Fulci offering part of the pack (alongside such oddities as “Switchblade Sisters,” “Mighty Peking Man,” and “Detroit 9000”). “The Beyond” was offered as a midnight show, and it was a memorable moviegoing experience (and one I repeated a few more times), presenting a wholly bizarre Italian horror picture to a slightly groggy, probably inebriated audience, allowing its filmmaking charms to hit in a special way. The endeavor remains unique in its weirdness and low-budget ambition, finding Fulci’s determination to generate a fright fest with the seams showing quite enjoyable to watch. The effort is sloppy at times, unbelievably goofy as well, but there’s something special about this messy presentation of torment and suffering, finding Fulci uniquely motivated to create a bizarre, art-inspired screen nightmare. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com