Above the afterlife

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Movie
German title Above the afterlife
Original title E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1981
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK Unchecked, confiscated nationwide
Rod
Director Lucio Fulci
script Dardano Sacchetti
Giorgio Mariuzzo
Lucio Fulci
production Fabrizio De Angelis
music Fabio Frizzi
camera Sergio Salvati
cut Vincenzo Tomassi
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
A zombie hung on the bell rope

Successor  →
The house on the cemetery wall

Beyond the afterlife (Original: ... E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà ), also known as The Ghost Town of Zombies , is a horror film with splatter elements by Lucio Fulci from 1981.

action

The film begins with a group of men breaking into a hotel in Louisiana and bloodily beating the painter Schweick, who was just working on a picture, and crucifying him on a wall. Then it is covered with unslaked lime . On the wall you can see a sign, a cross with a bow. A woman in the house reads a type of prophecy from the Book of Eibon during these acts .

The film continues 54 years later with the discussion about the renovation of this very house. Lisa inherited the house and now wants to use it as a hotel again. As she is going into the house with Martin, a painter falls from the scaffolding, a face with two white eyes looking at it from a window. They call a doctor and Martin discovers a picture. When he wants to free it from cobwebs, the guest bell begins to ring, it was pressed in room 36.

A plumber enters the house and looks in the submerged basement for the damage. He knocks a hole in the wall from which the water comes out. In the room behind it you can see the cross with the bow. The plumber goes through the hole and then the wall partially dissolves. When he wants to see what's behind, he is killed by a hand from the hole.

Meanwhile, Lisa is driving into town. On the way there, she is stopped by a blind woman with a dog who is standing in the middle of the road. She introduces herself as Emily and advises Lisa to give up the hotel again. In the meantime, Martha, one of Lisa's employees, discovered the body of the plumber Joe, along with another person who had been dead for some time. Both bodies are taken to the hospital laboratory. The plumber's wife enters the laboratory with the dead while the daughter waits outside. The latter hears screams and sees her mother lying on the floor as she is doused with sulfuric acid . When she tries to run away, more undead await them at the door.

When Lisa comes home from a meeting, Emily is already waiting for her. She asks why she didn't take her advice, then tells her that the house was built on one of the Seven Gates of Terror. Emily says that they are not alone in the house when she touches the painter's picture, the bell rings from room 36. She says that this was the room of the crucified painter. When she takes her hands off the picture, they are bloody, whereupon she escapes from the house.

Lisa wants to get to the bottom of the matter and goes to room 36. There she discovers the book Eibon , in an adjoining room she sees the corpse of the crucified Schweick hanging. When she goes into the room with the doctor John shortly afterwards, however, the corpse has disappeared. Meanwhile, Martin goes to the town hall to get the construction plans. When he discovers something interesting in the blueprint, he is so frightened by lightning that he falls off the ladder. Lying injured on the ground, he is killed by bites from approaching tarantulas.

John enters Emily's house and finds that nobody lives there. For this he discovers the book Eibon there . Meanwhile, Martha cleans room 36 in Lisa's house and is killed by the dead plumber who gets out of a bathtub. In the hospital, John discovers the cross with the bow on the arm of the dead Schweick. Meanwhile, Emily is visited by the dead. Her dog defends her, but kills her after contact with the dead. Lisa is attacked by Artur in the basement and escapes him, at the entrance to the house she meets John. You don't believe this, but you will learn better than to be splattered with blood in the cellar and thunderstorm.

They go to the hospital in the hope that they will get an answer to the events there, but initially they do not meet anyone there. John finds a revolver in a desk. Behind Lisa, the wall breaks apart and many zombies appear. They pull Lisa up to them, but John shoots a few and escapes with her. While Lisa comes across the plumber's daughter in the hospital laboratory, John meets a doctor. However, this one is killed when a window shatters. In the elevator, John finds Lisa and the plumber's daughter, but through the corridors blocked by zombies they are forced to go back to the laboratory. The corpses in the laboratory have also come to life. When they want to go through another door, the body of the dead painter stands in the way. She also attacks the plumber's daughter and is shot. John and Lisa manage to escape through a door again, but suddenly they find themselves in the basement of the hotel. As they walk on, they finally come to Schweick's painting, in whose otherworldly landscape they are from now on trapped. The prophecy is read again and the film ends.

Reviews

“An occult horror film based on well-known models. Sometimes it is aesthetically appealing and atmospheric, but extremely ambiguous because of its flat concessions to the fascist behavioral patterns of many zombie films and its cruelty in itself. "

- Lexicon of international film :

“In the same way, all the formal components in Fulci's film lead an almost uncanny life of their own, which transforms a completely weird horror story, whose characters mostly behave like fools, into an immensely atmospheric journey into a comic strip parallel dimension that manages the feat consciously integrating the artificial presentation of circus attractions in the context of a classic ghost story and its traditional horror moments. ... And the funniest thing: It works! In a very strange way, admittedly, but it is difficult to escape the mysterious charm of the film, which is clearly beyond (L'aldilà) of involuntary humor. It is as if Alice had ended up in an asylum instead of going to Wonderland, and not all the people she meets there are nice ... [...] The film's artificial Gothic circus is also reflected in the music of Fabio Frizzi, theirs Choir continuously voiced: “Do-ve sor-ge cre-a-tu-ra?” - what a line, what music! Sergio Salvati's camera work in Fulci productions always stands for zooms and depth of field gimmicks in large quantities; so here too, the film is hyperactive. "

- Christian Keßler :

Others

  • The myth about the book Eibon or Liber Ivoni s is based on Clark Ashton Smith and was later adopted by HP Lovecraft .
  • The song Seven Doors Hotel (written by Joey Tempest ) by the Swedish rock band Europe was inspired by the film. It was the band's first single, released in 1983.
  • The song Demons Gate by the Swedish doom metal band Candlemass is also based on the film.
  • The American death metal band Necrophagia recorded a song with a music video called And you will Live in Terror , which can be found in the bonus material on the film's DVD.
  • The corpses lying next to each other in the film location, in which John and Lisa get into the picture of the painter, were used by the German dark metal band Eisregen as CD cover for the album Leichenlager .
  • The German metal band Eisblut sings about this film in the song Über dem Jenseits from the album Schlachtwerk .
  • The Swiss group Brandhärd used parts of the film's music in their piece Noochbrand . The piece is considered an important classic of Swiss hip-hop .
  • The British D'n'B DJ High Contrast also used part of the violin piece from the film in his song Everything's different for his album Tough Guys Don't Dance .

DVD releases in Germany

  • Label: Astro (Lucio Fulci Collection); December 25, 2000 (DVD "Beyond the Beyond")
  • Label: X-Rated (New Line Edition), 2002 (DVD "Über dem Jenseits") (Cut)
  • Label: Laser Paradise (Blood Edition); (DVD "The Beyond")
  • Label: Laser Paradise (Lucio Fulci Collection); 2004 (DVD "The ghost town of zombies")

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Indexes / seizures for this title
  2. ↑ Above the hereafter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ for the cinema series “Buio Omega” on filmzentrale.com
  4. ^ Audio commentary by Leif Edling on Epicus Doomicus Metallicus , bonus CD, Peaceville Records 2011

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