Seven Doors of Death (3-D)

Starring:Al Cliver, Laura De Marchi, Giovanni De Nava, Roberto Dell'Acqua, Anthony Flees, Gilberto Galimberti, Veronica Lazar, Catriona MacColl, Maria Pia Marsala, Michele Mirabella, Cinzia Monreale, Gianpaolo Saccarola, Dardano Sacchetti, Antoine Saint-John, Sergio Salvati, Giorgio Trestini, David Warbeck
Studio: Sling Shot
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Lucio "King of the Eyeball Gag" Fulci made his name with a series of gory, gooey horror epics, and The Beyond stands above all as his outré masterpiece. The largely incoherent plot has something to do with a turn-of-the-century curse and a doorway to hell in the cellar of an old New Orleans hotel. Fulci shows his usual sensitivity with wooden acting, clumsy dialogue, and buckets of oozing blood and pus, but don't let that get in the way of enjoying this mad tale of zombies from hell invading Earth and eating their way through a cast of humans: crucified martyrs, blind visionaries, creepy hotel handymen, befuddled cops, and a plucky pair of heroes desperately fleeing a horde of hungry undead. The blood-red art direction is eerily beautiful, and Fulci's relentless long takes, punctuated by jolting shock cuts and eruptions of grotesque violence, create a mood of sheer paranoid horror right down to the final, mind-bending image. And don't forget the Fulci claim to fame: eyes are gouged out, eaten away, melted with acid, and (shudder) popped out by a spike through the back of the skull. Yech! If you dare ignore such piddling details as narrative logic and let yourself get carried away on the creepy visuals, it's a deliciously stylish treat, an edgy bit of gothic gore pitched in all its bone-crunching, flesh-ripping, organ-splatting glory. This sadistic, sanguinary hell-spawn tale is for gore-hounds only.

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Lucio "King of the Eyeball Gag" Fulci made his name with a series of gory, gooey horror epics, and The Beyond stands above all as his outré masterpiece. The largely incoherent plot has something to do with a turn-of-the-century curse and a doorway to hell in the cellar of an old New Orleans hotel. Fulci shows his usual sensitivity with wooden acting, clumsy dialogue, and buckets of oozing blood and pus, but don't let that get in the way of enjoying this mad tale of zombies from hell invading Earth and eating their way through a cast of humans: crucified martyrs, blind visionaries, creepy hotel handymen, befuddled cops, and a plucky pair of heroes desperately fleeing a horde of hungry undead. The blood-red art direction is eerily beautiful, and Fulci's relentless long takes, punctuated by jolting shock cuts and eruptions of grotesque violence, create a mood of sheer paranoid horror right down to the final, mind-bending image. And don't forget the Fulci claim to fame: eyes are gouged out, eaten away, melted with acid, and (shudder) popped out by a spike through the back of the skull. Yech! If you dare ignore such piddling details as narrative logic and let yourself get carried away on the creepy visuals, it's a deliciously stylish treat, an edgy bit of gothic gore pitched in all its bone-crunching, flesh-ripping, organ-splatting glory. This sadistic, sanguinary hell-spawn tale is for gore-hounds only.

Customer Reviews:

Cult indeed.......2007-05-13

Getting the obvious out of the way, this is a movie for B Horror splatter fans, not for mainstream horror audiences. This movie, like Fulci's other films, places emphasis on graphic depiction of gore material, while paying little to no attention to plot, script, or acting. He definitely succeeds in giving zombie fans what they want, however if you expect anything more you will be disappointed. The script was particularly bad, and not in a cheesy-but-good B movie sort of way, but riddled with inconsistencies and occasionally just plain dumb. Like for example in the hospital scene with all the zombies it's obvious that the only way to take them down is to shoot them in the head, yet the guy wastes 3-4 bullets on a single zombie, gets it with a headshot, and then repeats the same pattern numerous times. Sure enough he runs out of bullets sooner than he wishes to. Acting is pretty bad too, not very credible at all. You have the typical protagonist who's seeing things others aren't, and of course those things aren't there when someone else checks it out, yet the character doesn't sound convincing at all when she's trying to explain that those things really are there and it's not her imagination. You can almost tell someone told her what to say just minutes before and she's struggling to remember. To summarize, this movie is underdeveloped but thrives on its gore factor which is fairly elevated all things taken into consideration. Don't leave this one out of your zombie film collection.

Worthwhile Italian Classic.......2007-04-11

The Beyond opens with what has become one of my favorite scenes. A strange man is painting pictures of Hell on a canvas in room 36 of an old Louisana hotel. The year is 1927 and the mans name is Sweik. The natives of the town believe that Sweik is placing a curse on thier village through his drawings and what follows is a typical southern stereotype. A lynch mob storms the hotel and constrains Sweik as he is finishing one of his paintings.

The mob then drags him down a spiral staircase into the basement where he meets his fate in the form of being crucified against a wall and then drenched in flesh eating acid. All while that typical annoying as hell gaillo music is playing in the backgound. Kathrine MacColl inherits the hotel where Shiek meet his unfortunate and horrible demise some six odd years later.

The hotel has all sorts of strange occurances, not the least of which is the consistant flooding in the basement. As she is preparing to open the hotel the flooding in the basement starts to present a real problem, thus she calls in a plumber. Joe the Plumber (yes that is the characters actual name) is called in to fix the issue. What he finds is far more serious than leaky pipe...

The reason that this film works is because of it's take no prisoners presentation. Fulci knows what we want to see, and he more than delivers. It works on the same principle that John Carpenter's 'The Fog' works, the events are presented with no context. You never really know why this guy has no head, or why that lady just got an acid bath. Nor do you care. Fulci doesn't raise any questions and he certainly doesn't answer any, but hey, thats ok with me.

Pathetically funny.......2007-03-19

This movie must be praised, but not for the "gory scenes" or "horrifying horror", but simply because IT IS DAMN FUNNY!

It has so many flaws, holes in the script and bad acting that I just couldn't stop laughing.

If you like big, big comedies, you MUST watch Lucio Fulci's movies... Trust me: it is DAMN FUN mock all his Z-quality movies

Fulci lives!.......2007-03-02

I watched this last night for first time after I've been trying to find it for months and absolutely loved it.I will probably watch it again today.This movie is dark,atmospheric and the N.O.L.A setting is great.I can understand why some "pop-horror" fans might not like it,a lot of the story is not explained and stuff just seems to happen out of nowhere but thats the feel Fulci was going for and why I love it.This movie is brutal ,unrelenting and Fulci's goriest.FULCI LIVES!

This movie is awesome.......2007-02-27

If you like flicks like Blood Sucking Freaks, Necromatik, Sinful Dwarf, May, Devil's Rejects, zombie movies, or other goodies of this nature then you'll love this film. This movie shows everything, every bit of gore, with tons of attention paid to detail of the violence. Most of the really intense scenes (there are lots of them) come out of nowhere, and are well worth it when they do. Made by the same guy who made the Italian movie Zombie, but this film blows that one away. Not for the mild horror fan, this one's for us serious disturbing-movie-loving freaks only. If you're a sick and twisted horror fan, don't pass this one up, it will not disappoint. This movie is awesome.

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Read A Book........... Any Book!!!

Seven Doors of Death
Starring: Chick Chandler , June Clyde , George Meeker , Michael Raffetto , and Gregory Gaye
Director: Elmer Clifton
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0000D1FGV
Release Date: 2003-11-18

Customer Reviews:

Read A Book........... Any Book!!!.......2003-10-28

This movie actually put the fish in my aquarium to sleep! It has no plot, point, or reason to be for sale. Trust me save you 5 bucks!

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Product Description

From Italian schlock-horror master Lucio Fulci (THE BEYOND, THE GATES OF HELL), starring Jennifer O'Neill (SUMMER OF '42) as a clairvoyant who experiences frightening premonitions about a murder she believes to be in the past. Her investigations lead her to Italy, where she learns in a surprise twist that what she envisioned was in the future.

Customer Reviews:

how much?.......2007-02-12

$199.95 for a Lucio Fulci's DVD?

O.K. I want two.

Average customer rating:

Cult indeed
Worthwhile Italian Classic
Pathetically funny
Fulci lives!
This movie is awesome

Seven Doors of Death (3-D)
Starring: Al Cliver , Laura De Marchi , Giovanni De Nava , Roberto Dell'Acqua , and Anthony Flees
Manufacturer: Sling Shot
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Customer Reviews:

Cult indeed.......2007-05-13

Worthwhile Italian Classic.......2007-04-11

Pathetically funny.......2007-03-19

Fulci lives!.......2007-03-02

This movie is awesome.......2007-02-27

The Beyond / Seven Doors of Death PAL DVD

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The Beyond / Seven Doors of Death PAL DVD
Director: Lucio Fulci
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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English Dolby Digital 2.0
2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen

ASIN: B000REG4QI

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The seven dreaded gateways to hell are concealed in seven cursed places... And from the day the gates of hell are opened, the dead will walk the earth.

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Seven Doors of Death
Starring: Al Cliver , Laura de Marchi , Sarah Keller , Veronica Lazar , and Katherine MacColl
Director: Lucio Fulci
Manufacturer: Sling Shot
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Release Date: 2003-12-31

The Ultimate 3-D Horror Classics (The Little Shop of Horrors / Night of the Living Dead / Seven Doors of Death)

Average customer rating:

Some Explanations
Not real 3-D
the other reviewers speak the truth...
Not 3D, this is criminal
Great system, but the movies ARE NOT IN 3-D !!!!!

The Ultimate 3-D Horror Classics (The Little Shop of Horrors / Night of the Living Dead / Seven Doors of Death)
Starring: Classic 3d Horror Collection
Manufacturer: Sling Shot
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00007KK4A
Release Date: 2003-04-29

Customer Reviews:

Some Explanations.......2007-06-13

There's been a lot of grousing about the fact that these movies "aren't in 3D". That's what I thought, too, until I realized that they looked so lousy that something actually had to be wrong.
So, I went back to the instructions (which are weak to say the least) and discovered something I don't think these other buyers have.
You're supposed to test the equipment before you just dive in and watch the 3D versions of these DVDs.
There's a 'left eye/right eye' test, that really needs to be done first. What happened when I tried it, was that I discovered that my channels were reversed.
Okay.
What to do next?
The little junction/ amplifier box they include, has a "mode" button on it. You press it once and it reverses the projection, making the right and left eyes come out in the proper order.
The result is, the flicker is gone (mostly) and the movies are in 3D.
It's not terrific 3D, but it is stable and there's a depth that makes these old classics really come alive.
I must admit, I'm a real glutton for 3D, and having "Night Of The Living Dead" shown using the process, added greatly to the enjoyment for me. Plus it was cheap thrills: my copy of this set cost a mere $11.98 (your price may vary).
So I'm recommending this, with reservations, because a 3d version of any of these flicks is unlikely to ever come around again, and this is already out-of-print. Plus, the glasses look way cool.

Not real 3-D.......2005-11-14

The only depth of any kind that you see might be a small section of the room floor or grass. Otherwise, no depth at all. These movies are NOT 3-D, and it is a complete ripoff.

The 3-D system that comes with it really works with real field-sequential movies, but you might as well buy the system with real 3-D movies (IMAX collection). Don't buy this! Even with real 3-D movies, the 3-D is good, but there is a lot of flicker.

the other reviewers speak the truth..........2005-08-18

...these three films are not in real 3D. Some 3D elements were added, like computer-generated blood spatters or shards of flying glass, but these were not part of the original film (all three films are public-domain, so they can do whatever they wish with the prints).

However, the system that comes with this box set is very impressive when used with true 3D films (i.e., IMAX films Alien Encounter, Haunted Castle, etc. or 3D DVDs of 50s/80s flicks like Creature From the Black Lagoon, dial M for Murder, House of Wax, Jaws 3D, etc.).

I would recommend the Imax pack over this (also available at Amazon)--those films were filmed in "true 3D". Also, there is another 3D box set with just one movie: The Creeps. This is a more recent release and the DVD with this set is in true 3D and very good 3D at that.

Other movies you should pick up for this system are "SpyKids 3D: The Extreme 3D Edition (HQFS)" [make sure you get the HQFS version] and "3D Transitions". Santa vs. the Snowman is pretty good, too. These are probably the best of the titles out there for this system, other than the underground releases found on various auction sites (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came From Outer Space, etc.).

Not 3D, this is criminal.......2005-05-01

These are not real 3D films, this should be made a criminal offence to con the public with this sort of rubbish, glasses perfect, films 2D and will always be 2D, so make sure you are buying real 3D movies when looking for 3D DVD's.

Great system, but the movies ARE NOT IN 3-D !!!!!.......2003-01-23

First, you'll get a nice 3-D system and some great glasses that provide an excellent 3-D effect when watching 3-D movies. However, THE MOVIES IN THIS SET ARE NOT 3-D! They were shot as flat, standard movies, and these DVDs are still the same, flat versions, except processed so that these glasses are required to view them. They claim they are converted to 3-D but don't be fooled for a moment. It is outrageous that with hundreds of real 3-D movies out there, these people are pulling this hoax, especially when they also sell real 3-D stuff. This will result in making the public very angry. Avoid this set and buy the IMAX or HORROR ones instead.

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[18 Feature Films] Seven Doors to Death, Hot Rod Girl, Blonde Savage, They Made Me a Criminal, Silver Horde, Bird of Paradise, Outpost in Morocco, Renfrew of the Royal Mounted, Dark Room, Aerialist, Return of Michael Campion, Peter Hurok's Store Part 1 & 2, Goodbye Grandpa, Where Are They?, Executioner, Explorer, Encounter

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