Beyond the Door (1974)
- Original title
- Chi sei?
- Directed by
- Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli, Ovidio G. Assonitis
- Genre
- horror film
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 5.2 of 10 from 67 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A pregnant housewife in San Francisco begins acting strangely and becomes demonically possessed. The story follows her deteriorating condition as her family and a priest try to help her.
tensecreepydisturbingslow-buildingsupernaturalmoodypsychologically intense
What happens
Beyond the Door (Italian: Chi sei?, lit. 'Who are you?', also released as The Devil Within Her) is a 1974 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis and Roberto D'Ettore Piazzoli, starring Juliet Mills, Gabriele Lavia, and Richard Johnson. The plot follows a San Francisco housewife (Mills) who becomes demonically possessed in the midst of a pregnancy. Beyond the Door opened in the United States in May 1975, and became a major commercial success, grossing approximately $15 million. Critical reaction to the film was largely negative, with numerous critics deeming it an imitation of The Exorcist (1973). That film's distributor, Warner Bros., filed a lawsuit against the production company behind Beyond the Door, claiming copyright infringement. A settlement was ultimately reached in 1979. This would be the first entry into the Beyond the Door trilogy in the United States as Mario Bava's Shock (1977) was re-titled Beyond the Door II and branded as a sequel, though it has no relation to the 1974 film other than the presence of actor David Colin Jr. A second sequel, Beyond the Door III, was also released in 1989, though it too bears no relation to the previous two films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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