The Beyond (1981) - Finale and End Credits

[InfiniteWhizBang]

Great ending.

[drwhomasterfan]

Whoa zombi 2 music echoing in the background at the beginning. This looks amazing!

[pdoll96]

I saw this movie years ago in my teens and could never find it on video, dvd or anything. It was called 7 doors of hell or something when I saw it and then I found it here. I was excited because the ending of this movie never left my memory and I wanted to see it again.

[monkeymagoo47]

I like to think this movie is a representation of what italians think actually goes on in louisiana.

[StonedSwede]

Best ending to a movie, ever.

[neworleansguy10]

I'm embarrassed to say that it was set in my hometown.

[fatalboy46]

@neworleansguy10 embarrased, omg i would be proud if the beyond sets in my town

[gpalmamrw]

This looks pretty similar what greeks called Hades and hebrews called Sheol, the Place of the Dead, there is no suffering but neither is pleasure, ectasy or glory, just place for dead souls in a grey and dark non-existence....oh yeah the gory parts of the movie were also cool haha.

[monkeymagoo47]

When you end up in hell, somehow all those zombies don't seem so bad anymore.

[keithdeweese]

@monkeymagoo47 "Your idea intrigues me, and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter."

[wandererlain]

Profondo ending! One of my faves.

[h4b1t]

AND YOU WILL FACE THE SEA OF DARKNESS, AND ALL THEREIN THAT MAY BE EXPLORED

[korporateamerika]

@h4b1t apparently, ain't much to see.

[wandererlain]

@h4b1t Hey, you nicked my comment!

[CaterHatterPillar]

1 person totally got stuck in the Beyond.

[mac12b]

the best thing in this movie is the music by Frizzi

[keithdeweese]

@mac12b The closing music is wonderfully, beautifully OTT.

[keithdeweese]

Evokes deranged ABBA. Love it.

[wandererlain]

AND YOU WILL FACE THE SEA OF DARKNESS AND ALL THEREIN THAT MAY BE EXPLORED

[IntoxicateDead]

Awesome Ending And Catchy Soundtrack...

[shebbs1]

And you will face the Sea of Darkness and all therein that my be explored!

[wandererlain]

@shebbs1 What a beautiful catchy dark line.

[HeathenDeluxe]

So fucking morbid. best ending ever. Trapped in groaning hell for eternity.

[WHATABOUTUS18]

ONE OF THE BEST (HORROR)-MOVIE-ENDINGS EVER!!!

LOVE IT LOVE IT!

[radiohead93]

There is a voice at 2:02 that for some reason always disturbs me and sends shivers down my spine. To this day it still disturbs me and I have to mute it whenever I watch the whole film. Good job fulci, you've truly scared me. Love this movie! Love this ending! Saw for the first time when I was 10 and 7 years later it's still a classic.

[Perversus666]

I did'nt like this film that much but the end is what I'd like to see more often in movies : a really bad ending. No dramatic death, no fucking love story, no positive morale. Just a fucking neverending despair.

[virrepirreboy]

Mycket bra!!!  Skulle vilja ha dessa på orginalspråket :)

[878commando]

love this film.

[Alishondra]

Well.. That sucks :P

[DeleriosoAnormal]

the voice at the end is the guy in the Black Cat

[ThePulpFiction92]

great ending, great movie, great Lucio Fulci: W ITALIA!

[MillaHead]

That's the ending! They're dead! They are in "THE BEYOND"!

[ChevalierAguila]

One of the best endings to a horror movie ever.

[solreavir]

chilling ending and the voiceover just cap its off nicely. The look of despair on the their faces when they realise they are in darkness while in the bowels of hell will haunt you......(low growling voice) foreverrrrrr.......... lol yeah think i'll watch it all the way through now. horror movies work better with bad endings, despair and the unexplained. Dont rational the horror leave mysterious we all fear what we dont understand.

[happypranksgiving]

It's one of the most haunting endings in horror films. John's expression is of pure horror; he was never fully prepared to accept what's happening, and now he's in the midst of it, trapped. Liza on the other hand looks blank; like she's resigned to it, or she expected it. Of course at this point both have turned blind, making their expressions even more haunting.

This and Argento's Inferno are probably the two best nightmares on film you'll find.

[grimreaperhenrik]

So you actually got it on VHS, with Swedish subs?

Hmm...Nice!

[gravelandgrain100]

I prefer COTLD to the Beyond, but this ending is was more-well, just way more than COTLD's ending-which was exasperating!

[leosztlak]

nananana nana nana naa nanananana

[richwicz]

The background which the end credits roll over always wobbles in every version of The Beyond I've seen.

[Kenro200x]

His best ending IMO. House by the Cemetery had an ok one and City of Living Dead was one satisfying ending away from being great. Here he hits every single note, this was his masterpiece.

[PkmnTrainerElite]

I've always loved how Fulci's films always leave the main characters totally fucked.. and that music.

[NazTb0y]

amazing ending--but, I mean, would it have killed him to use more than one backdrop for Hell? I mean, when everything behind them and everything in front of them is the same damn picture, kind of spoils the effect!

[appleman53]

@NazTb0y Dude it was an 80's horror film made on a budget of £400k so ya can't expect some Avatar shit loll, but yeah i get what you mean

[NazTb0y]

@appleman53 well, I'm not looking for Avatar--just something a bit less lazy--i mean is varying the landscape of hell so much to ask for?

[happypranksgiving]

It was meant to be hazy and bleak. The reason they go blind is there's nothing to see; it's a void.

Some have speculated that the reason Hell is covered in unmoving bodies is it was Fulci putting forth a sort of atheistic image, dead bodies are simply dead, the grave is a dark empty place, and upon death, the two main characters simply fade into nothing at the end of the film. Considering it wouldn't have cost any more to have actual zombies attack them, this seems possible.

[1Thompsonmusic]

@happypranksgiving

Shut up you boring prick! This is why I'm leaving youtube, and the internet completely. Fucking boring stupid youtube comments, pity you lot can't just watch the video and that's it. Why bother typing a message which is only read by people you don't even know? You're wasting your own life away typing endless paragraphs. SAD!! I'm quitting. Anyone else want to join me?

[happypranksgiving]

OMG SOMEONE MADE A COMMENT IN THE COMMENTS SECTION THAT NOBODY FORCED ME TO READ BUT I WILL CRY ABOUT FOR A LONGASS PARAGRAPH

[genericmeatunit]

Good ending music. Haunting. I'm inspired to see the rest.

[Silvertrine]

Whats it about? Isnt it obvious? How much clearer can it be? 'You will face the sea of darkness and all therein that there is to be explored". YOU.

[mujuma]

I never understood this ending, but it always stuck out in my mind.

I didn't like this Movie much, it hardly explained anything (example, the Book of Eibon or whatever it was). It had bad effects (mainly because of it's tiny budget), the acting was shit and they all seemed so god damn brain dead.

If someone explained to me what all this was about, I forgot watched it ages ago and wasen't really paying attention...

Just thought it was a overated load of shit :\

[powersoulboy]

Well, it's kinda like the first philosophical zombie film, it might not be quite clear but definitely make you feel something deep, I think that's what good art is all about, I mean Bunuel films or Jodorowsky films still been discussed right now, who knows the real meaning.

What I love about Fulci films is that they were as much about horror as religion, this ending is a good example, a masterpiece in my opinion, really hunting stuff.

[StefPhoenixOoORising]

Yes I think Don't Torture a Ducking is the movie which best exemplifies your statements. While Fulci often said that his latest films are pure style-over-substance films that must be received without reflection, those films also have different types of social criticism, much like his early giallos.

[mujuma]

Yeah, I hired it out because I wanted to understand what all this was about, it attracted me. Also, I thought the Death Scenes were pretty cool too lol.

This last scene always seemed to make me think, and I wondered why did their eyes turn white (blind?) where they were stuck was also the painting that guy who got crucified (well, looked like crucfixion at the beginning).

I'd probably understand all this if I knew what was actually going on.

[MichaelHTillman]

@mujuma Remember the woman that came back, she thought she made it out, and was attacked by the dog, I believe? She was blind - she was from 'the beyond.' I don't know if there's a verse reference, but it was a visual way to say they just went to the same place she had been.

[237th]

@powersoulboy

My interpretation is that, while trying to flee to safety, they wandered through one of the gates of hell and didn't realize it until it was too late.

[NazTb0y]

@powersoulboy I personally don't think this film's been rivaled by anything as far as horror movies go. I can't think of a more perfect ending or undead movie.

[andreaprodan]

In Italy you HAVE to be a Catholic... or you don't make movies. ROME's number one industry is The Vatican, and MOVIES is it's second one!

[Silvertrine]

Not a tragic ending, the characters are experiencing a profound spiritual realization. That is often painful, scary, etc, envigorating. All of which seem to be captured in the final scene.

[dipsymat3000]

Den Film habe ich gesehen, als ich eine ziemlich harte Depri-Phase hatte. Das war nicht gut.

Aber: guter Film, SUPERBER Score, Fabio Frizzi rules.

[SillyPom]

The Beyond was my first excursion into Fulci's visions. And it still creeps the hell out of me. Tragic ending I thought, but fitting because that's what made it true horror for me. The music just adds to it by piling on the pathos. I see the look in the characters' eyes at the end, hear the recitation spoken and just think, "Oh god!" Gets me every time.

[LadyAryun]

I don't really consider it bad per se. As Fulci said himself, there IS hope. They're in Purgatory instead of Hell. This is still one of my favorite movies. I searched high and low until I found a DVD copy. I take every oportunity to make people sit down and watch it!

[Silvertrine]

Sometimes spiritual growth is extremely painful. If you have bad eyesight maybe you see better than people with good eyes. Ever considered that?

[Desideratum73]

the better final of gore film ever.

[scarecrow719]

Lucio Fulci's Best!

[wratchild114]

kick ass ending,fulci rulessss!!!

[luscaslayer]

I read somewhere that Fulci always said the characters were actually escaping from Hell at the end - the misty landscape is the same one the warlock/artist painted at the start, of the film, and it's supposed to be a grim purgatory, a refuge from the violent hell that was engulfing the rest of the town and would have taken them if they had stayed at the hospital.

[rikhorror]

Italian REAL horror fans are proud of their masters. And so I am!

Thanks!

[KokoroNoSama]

Such an amazing ending. I wish fulci made more movies like this. The supernatrual trilogy should have been like this movie. Althou I felt his direction was better in house by the cemetary.

[adey28uk]

The bodies on the floor were naked homeless men who were paid with booze!!!

[Fatzombie1980]

When I was 12 I had dream that my closet was a gateway to hell and I saw monsters and zombies in hell and I fell then I woke up. And I was scared.

[jonamania17]

That's called meth...

[JJedgar]

Fulci was an atheist, so this is - instead of hell- his vision of the realm of death. An obscure beyond where all hope is lost, for the rest of eternity.

What a masterpiece ending!

[CJ076]

Fucli said he was Catholic in one interview I read many years ago.

[Stasi78]

As far as I know, he was an atheist.

[rongrelio]

oh! sublime se parece al chat jajaja

[10deeppurple]

awesome, terrificant!

[mainline6]

I thought zombie 2 / zombie flesh eaters was much much better! For a great looking zombie movie try . thedead-movie official trailer

[xXUrObOrOSXx]

Honestly I didnt understand the ending can someone explain?

[TomtheReaper]

i dont think anyone realy knows, i think the director meant for the entire film to be extremely ambiguous

[Sh0nin]

Well, that last line sounded like a Bible quote, and sea of darkness obviously means hell, so basically they unwittingly walked through a gateway to hell and are now trapped there with no hope, living in the quiet desolation for the rest of eternity ( either until eventually they turn into the demented zombies earlier in the film or until some hell-zombies come and eat them).

[bringeroffunerals]

i think its a h.p lovecraft quote

[dcoleman9550]

lake of fire means hell

[Sh0nin]

Yes, but so does damnation, abaddon, gehenna, tartarus, living death, pandemonium, underworld, sheol, perdition, the abyss

AND the sea of darkness

[nenirouvelliv]

kickass ending!

[psychoguy4]

awesome ending.what an awesome movie,the beyond.fabio frizzi did an awesome job making beautiful music for this movie.you rock fabio frizzi.

[coffycup75]

My favorite ending of ANY film, hands down.

[matheusmarchetti]

One of my favorite endings to a horror film!

[neruni]

@matheusmarchetti

Totally agree!! This ending literally gives me goose bumps and tears run down - it's so tragic! I also drool for the ending of Fulci's Zombie ending of the movie.

[qwertyq1q]

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