Beyond the Door III

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Craig W. @CJWolfe27 Jul 18, 2025 This was pretty bad See more Dec 29, 2021 visual delight! a classic satan's bride story with shlocky kills and a sweet ending. top notch practicals for a 3. See more Jan 22, 2017 A group of students take a trip to Eastern Europe with their professor to witness a sacred pagan ritual, but quickly learn that their professor indents for them to be sacrificed at said ritual. The professor also takes a special interest in one virginal co-ed, since a virgin sacrifice is something special for bringing Satan to life. Most of the film takes place on a possessed train and includes a lot of low budget gore, which is kind of fun if that's your sort of thing. The story however is pretty still when the main suspense of the film involved whether the virginal co-ed will have sex before Satan returns to take over the world. This film is by no means a good horror film, but for fans of cheap Italian horror, it does have some appealing elements. There is some vivid color photography, quirky European settings, and there's also some kind of fun use of low budget miniature sets. I enjoyed this film, which actually bears no connection to the first two "Beyond the Door" films, but I would not recommend it for anyone who's not a fan of Euro Horror. See more Nov 30, 2012 American tourists and the Yogaslavian rail road vs. Satan and followers. Love those miniture shots. "SHE'S NOT A VIRGIN!"-Old Woman (Olga Poznatoz) See more Feb 15, 2012 Beyond the Door III (Jeff Kwitny, 1989) Beyond the Door III, also released under its original title Amok Train, has as much to do with the first two Beyond the Door movies as Zombie 5: Killing Birds has to do with Dawn of the Dead... in other words, not a damn thing. What it is, and what gives it the rather limited appeal it has, is an attempt by two Americans, LA director Jeff Kwitny (Lightning in a Bottle) and Sheila Goldberg (who, perhaps not coincidentally, co-wrote the script for Killing Birds with director Claudio Lattanzi), to make a supernatural giallo. The end result doesn't work too well, but you've got to admire the gumption, no? Plot: a college professor and some of her charges head off into the wilds of Eastern Europe for their comparative religion class (note: I'm extrapolating there, it could just as easily be an archeology class. Or sociology. Or calculus, in a particularly weird school.), where they hook up with ultra-creepy Professor Andromolek (Walking Tall's Bo Svenson). Andromolek takes them even father from civilization, to a small village in the middle of nowhere where everyone bunks down for the night in preparation for some sort of ancient religious ritual the next day. Problem is, it's kind of like getting invited to dinner by cannibals; you never know if you're a guest or the main course. One of the students, Beverly Mr. Baseball's Mary Kohnert), is a virgin, and the village folks are planning on sacrificing her to conjure up the devil. Where does the train come into all this, you ask? Some of the escaping students stumble upon a track and hop the train, which is full of all sorts of weirdos who make the villagers look positively friendly in comparison... While this is certainly not deathless cinema, it's hard to deny its influence on things that have popped up since; the 2008 torture-porn flick Train seems to be almost a direct descendant of the second half of this movie, for example. And while it's full of the usual silliness one expects from bad low-budget cinema (awful acting, murky camerawork, fubling direction, script full of plot holes, etc.), it's hard to deny the film is entertaining on some levels. Stupid, yes, but entertaining. If you're a fan of the Satanic-panic films of the eighties, this is going to be right up your alley, and were I you I would definitely check it out. The rest of you, maybe not so much unless you're familiar enough with movies like it to know what you're getting into. ** See more Jul 29, 2011 Unless you just really love trains, I don't see much sense in watching this. Possibly if you are drinking with friends, then it might be acceptable to watch and joke about but aside from laughing at it's not really worth it. I thought this was gonna be better then it was. The only thing I liked about it was the train was alive, which just reminded me of Stephen Kings monorail Blain(which was the only reason I kept watching the movie). I mean there were a couple of neat things in this movie, but for some of the scenes they used a toy train and although they tried to do quick shots of it, it was still very easy to tell. The sound quality wasn't that great, seemed like a cheap horror movie where the voices didn't quite match up with the people speaking. I don't know how to describe it... Another problem was that all of the extra information about what the train was doing was being explained in another language, I think it was Serbian, which would have been fine if they added subtitles to those parts. And these weren't small parts, they were talking a lot, yelling, point at charts, so I was just trying to guess what they were talking about. I assumed they were trying to stop the train, but I didn't know if they knew the train was evil or if they just didn't know where it came from or how shocked they were about other things that train was mystically doing. All I knew is that they wanted to stop it cause it was going to collide with another train, but the details would have made me more engrossed in the whole story. It got to be annoying cause of the frustration of wanting to know what the conversations were about, I mean you have to pick an audience and the majority of the movie was in English so that's your language anything else needs to be subtitled. It had to be like 20 or 30% of the movie was foreign. <<<<<semi-spoiler if you even care>>>>> The ending was kind of lame, I was expecting the train to actually travel to hell or something like that but it just stops in the middle of the country and the last 15% of the movie takes place off the train. I was just like, "What happened to the train!?!" See more Read all reviews

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