Trivia / The Beyond

• Completely Different Title:
  • Original title: ...And You Will Live in Terror! The Afterlife
  • English: The Beyond or Seven Doors of Death
  • Brazil: Dark Terror
  • Bulgaria: The Seventh Gate of Hell
  • Denmark: Hotel of Horrors
  • Germany: The Ghost Town of Zombies and Eibon: The 7 Gates of Terror
  • The Netherlands: Hotel of Doom
  • Poland: Hotel of the Seven Gates and Seven gates of Hell
• Died During Production: David Warbeck had written a screenplay for a sequel to the film but his death put an end to it ever seeing the light of day. Blackest Heart Media DID buy the rights to make a comic adaptation of the script, but went out of business before production of it began.
• Executive Meddling: The film was supposed to be a straight-up surrealistic gore film about a haunted hotel where people die horribly. Lucio Fulci's distributors demanded a zombie shoot-out, hence the side trip to the hospital in the third act and the twist that the hotel's vast basement is connected to EVERY major building in town.
• Fake American: Par for the course for an Italian horror film. Catriona MacColl is English, David Warbeck was a New Zealander expat residing in the UK, Antoine Saint-John is French, Veronica Lazar was Romanian, and the remaining are Italian. The only real American in the cast was Larry Ray, a former journalist and then-head of the Louisiana Film Commission who acted as the production's on-location liaison and the go-to translator; being the only fluently bilingual member of the production.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The film was extremely popular on the Euro-Horror tape trading scene, thanks to fans who ripped the uncut version off of an uber-rare laser disc version of it.
• No Export for You: The uncut version was widely unavailable in the US for a long time.
• Shrug of God: Don't expect the creators to explain any of the film's infamous incongruities. As far as Lucio Fulci was concerned, it was never intended to make any sense.
• Throw It In!: The brief scene of David Warbeck's character "reloading" his revolver was done as a joke that got left in the take; note the actress cracking a smile at his improv.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Lucio Fulci had Zombi 2 star as Tisa Farrow in mind for the lead, but she had left acting at that point.
  • The original ending for the movie featured The Beyond being a great amusement park where everyone who had died was enjoying themselves, having fun being dead. This idea was deemed too expensive to shoot on the scale Fulci wanted, so the ending in the film was cobbled together late in the game.

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