Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Thehibikiew Not even bad in a good way

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

kanadianboy-ali10 I watched this growing up in the late 80's, my uncle was a huge horror buff and I watched this one shortly after Exorcist when I was around 12 or 13, its really a mash-up of all the classics (Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby and some Omen) all my favorites, YES its a bit cheesy the dubbed English is hilarious at times especially the kids and their potty mouths. I loved the premise of the film, it had some haunting scores and just something mysterious about it, very nostalgic old school Italian horror, one of my personal faves... if you are willing to sacrifice a bit on the cheesy dialogues and story line, fans of Italian horror and films like Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby will enjoy this one, give it a shot...

headnotfound This movie came out in 1974, a year after The Exorcist exploded in theatres. The resounding effects of The Exorcist's success are very apparent in this movie. I was shocked to see the blatant similarities! I thought ripping off movies was a 90s disease, but no...The plot is very simple - Jessica Barrett (Juliet Mills) is a San Francisco housewife to a record dealer husband Robert (Gabriele Lavia). They have two foul-mouthed children who call their parents by their first names. The daughter is especially interesting to watch, especially if you get a bad-dubbed copy like I did, and you hear her throw out curse words like a sailor.Beautiful Jessica finds out she has a bun in the oven, despite not missing a day of her birth control pills. The happy couple's excitement for the new baby are short-lived, as Jessica begins vomiting blood and her health quickly declines *(much like Mrs. Woodhouses in Rosemary's Baby). Jessica begins to turn into someone else, hardly recognizable by her loved ones. She starts murdering fish for pleasure, slaps her potty-mouthed daughter, and gives a long and awkward kiss to her young son (I believe this was meant to be a foreshadowing for the 'surprise' ending, but instead the kiss came off as really creepy and icky). Soon, she is in full possessed-Reagan make-up, and her head starts turning around.One of Jessica's past lover Dimitiri (played by a coolly evil-looking Richard Johnson, no relation to the blues guitar player who sold his soul) shows up out of nowhere. We first hear of him in the very beginning of the movie, where it is made clear that he has died in a car accident, and is bargaining with the devil for a couple of more years of life. The devil says that he might give him a couple of years, but will only consider it if he does one thing - "rip the baby out of that woman." So later on, Dimitri shows up and proclaims to be the only one that can help Jessica from her dilemma. He insists that 'she must have that baby!' even in the beginning of the movie, the devil tells him to rip it out of her (which I guess means 'to deliver it'). Dimitri finds out that the devil was just using him with no intention of letting him live, so he starts pounding away at Jessica's stomach in an effort kill the unborn demon. And when Jessica finally does have the baby, it turns out to have no mouth. Low and behold, her young son is now possessed. What was the point of the devil impregnating Jessica if it was just going to die? Besides the fact that this movie is a definite Exorcist clone (with some Rosemary's Baby overtones), and besides the fact that Juliet Mills looks like an aged Kirsten Dunst at times, I dug this movie.

chicagopoetry Finally, after years of searching, I found a copy of the long lost gem, Beyond the Door. Even better, I found the longer, director's cut released under the title The Devil Within Her, which has everything from the original chopped up version that I first saw when I was eight years old, but it made a bit more sense with all the additional footage--I'm pretty sure the version I saw forty years ago as a kid didn't have a woman floating in mid-air begging someone to rip the fetus out of her vagina! Wow. No, this is NOT an Exorcist ripoff any more than Friday the 13th is a Halloween ripoff. It's just a movie about satanic possession. What do you want a movie about satanic possession to look like, Lassie? Of course it's going to look like The Exorcist. And with all the lame Exorcist ripoffs being produced today, you should be glad to see something original from the day and something NOT politically correct. Beyond the Door was one of my absolute favorite movies growing up. It scared that bejesus out me and today, when I finally got a chance to watch it again, of course it didn't scare me as much as it did when I was a child, but I still found it scary as all hell and an absolute blast to watch. And it's funny. It's camp. Unintentionally camp, which is important. If you are a movie buff do yourself a favor and give this one a screening before Quentin Tarantino makes an absolute joke out of it or something. Beyond the Door is the ULTIMATE low budget schlocker.

Jonny_Numb Though director Ovidio Assontis unconvincingly argues otherwise, "Beyond the Door" is a blatant rip-off of "The Exorcist" that actually has more in common with the incoherence and dullness of Lucio Fulci's "Manhattan Baby" (still a vastly superior film by comparison). Beautiful San Franciscan housewife Juliet Mills (TV's "Passions"), in between juggling dinner dates with her record-producer husband (Dario Argento regular Gabriele Lavia) and ignoring the freakish behavior of her obnoxious children (one likes to drink pea soup through a straw--har har), finds time to get impregnated by the Devil himself. What follows is a largely unexciting, vastly confusing exercise in futility and cheap, avant-garde camera tricks to convince the viewer that, yes, something IS actually going on. Turns out Mills' Satanist ex ("Zombie"'s Richard Johnson) spurned Old Scratch, who now wants to claim the poor bastard's soul for all eternity (or something); his only option (as it's repeated several times) is to see that Rosemary has her baby! Meanwhile, random scenes set to soul music exist only to pad out the needlessly distended run time (109 minutes under the "Devil Within Her" cut), but my patience with "Beyond the Door" has run out. Avoid it.