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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovDoes it make any sense? Nope. Does this detract from the film? Not at all. It's classic Italian Grand Guignol at its most disturbing; a car crash, autopsy, and disembowelment all wrapped up in a nice, soggy package.
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghClassic Italian splatter directed by Lucio Fulci, reviled and adored in equal proportions by Euro-horror fans.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonYou know the drill: Seven gates of hell. The walking dead. Blood and spurting eyeballs. Strictly for horror mavens hungry for kitsch. [03 Jul 1998]
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittThere's more than enough gruesomeness to keep hard-core horror fans screaming, but others should stay a million miles away - or 2 million, if spiders make you squirm. [12 Jun 1998, p.B2]
- 50New York PostNew York PostIf you can stomach the lavish gore, The Beyond also treats you to a three-ring circus of atrocious acting, loopy dialogue, a cheesy wah-wah guitar and synthesizer score and endless jump-out-at-you shocks. [12 Jun 1998, p.053]
- 42The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe Beyond's first half-hour or so is extremely entertaining, alternating between genuinely frightening, gory shocks and hilariously awkward, atonal acting. After a while, however, it becomes as dull as its repetitive Italian prog-rock soundtrack, neither good nor bad enough to hold your attention for long.
- 38Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezEven by Argento standards, Fulci’s film is nonsensical to the point of distraction.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamSan Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamThe thriller is populated by the usual dimwits who stumble into horrific situations and don't have the good sense to leave, and it tries to pass off some of the sorriest excuses for zombies ever seen.
- 20Time OutTime OutA shamelessly artless horror movie whose senseless story - a girl inherits a spooky, seedy hotel which just happens to have one of the Seven Doors of Hell in its cellar - is merely an excuse for a poorly connected series of sadistic tableaux of torture and gore.
- 12Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt's the kind of movie that alternates stupefyingly lame dialogue with special effects scenes in which quicklime dissolves corpses and tarantulas eat lips and eyeballs.