Cult '80s Horror Classic Is Officially Getting A Remake
Brennan Klein (he/him) is a senior news writer at Screen Rant, host of the Attack of the Queerwolf podcast, and contributor at Alternate Ending and Horror Press. He has been writing and podcasting about pop culture (especially horror movies) for over a decade at platforms including Blumhouse, Fangoria, Dread Central, The Backlot, and Arrow in the Head.
The Beyond is being resurrected more than four decades after its debut.
1981's The Beyond (also known as …E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà and 7 Doors of Death) was directed by Italian gore maestro Lucio Fulci (1979's Zombie, The New York Ripper) and follows a series of grisly killings that ensue when Liza (Catriona MacColl) inherits a New Orleans hotel that was built over one of the entrances to Hell. The movie was heavily edited in many of its releases, particularly in the U.K., as it arrived in the middle of the time when the censorship board was prosecuting "obscene" material in releases that were dubbed "video nasties."
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Which horror movie features this iconic line?
“I am your number one fan.”
✓ Correct! Annie Wilkes’s obsessive declaration to author Paul Sheldon in Misery — Kathy Bates won the Oscar for this role.
✗ Not quite — it’s Misery (1990). Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes delivers this line before things get very, very painful for her favorite author.
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Which horror movie features this iconic line?
“We all go a little mad sometimes.”
✓ Correct! Norman Bates’s unsettling confession in Hitchcock’s Psycho — the film that invented the slasher.
✗ Not quite — it’s Psycho (1960). Norman Bates delivers this chilling line to Marion Crane before the shower scene changes cinema forever.
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Which horror movie features this iconic line?
“Here’s Johnny!”
✓ Correct! Jack Nicholson’s terrifying ad-lib as he axes through the bathroom door in The Shining.
✗ Not quite — it’s The Shining (1980). Nicholson improvised this line while hacking through the door — Kubrick kept the cameras rolling.
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Which horror movie features this iconic line?
“They’re all gonna laugh at you!”
✓ Correct! Margaret White’s cruel warning to her daughter before prom night turns deadly in Carrie.
✗ Not quite — it’s Carrie (1976). Piper Laurie as Margaret White torments her telekinetic daughter with this prophetic warning.
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Which horror movie features this iconic line?
“One, two, Freddy’s coming for you.”
✓ Correct! The eerie children’s jump-rope rhyme that haunts the dreams of Elm Street.
✗ Not quite — it’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). The nursery rhyme warning of Freddy Krueger’s arrival. All five are iconic slashers, but only one invades your dreams.
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Which horror movie features this iconic line?
“I want to play a game.”
✓ Correct! Jigsaw’s signature greeting, delivered through his puppet Billy in Saw.
✗ Not quite — it’s Saw (2004). The Jigsaw Killer’s chilling invitation before his victims face impossible choices.
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Which horror movie features this iconic line?
“It was the boogeyman.”
✓ Correct! Laurie Strode’s terrified whisper to Dr. Loomis after surviving Michael Myers in Halloween.
✗ Not quite — it’s Halloween (1978). Laurie Strode whispers this to Dr. Loomis, who replies: “As a matter of fact, it was.”
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Which horror movie features this iconic line?
“It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.”
✓ Correct! Buffalo Bill’s skin-crawling command to his captive in The Silence of the Lambs.
✗ Not quite — it’s The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Buffalo Bill delivers this disturbing line from his basement. All five films feature serial killers, but only one has this scene.
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Hangtime International Pictures and Severin Films have now announced that they are partnering to acquire the rights to remake certain genre movies for theatrical, streaming, and physical media. Although they plan to develop multiple reboots over the next two years, they will be starting with an English-language remake of The Beyond. The deal was brokered by Severin’s Italian Correspondent Manlio Gomarasca and RTI Mediaset International Sales Manager Claudia Marra.
Below, read comments on the project from Marra, Severin co-founder, president and CEO David Gregory, and Hangtime co-CEOs Frank Murray and Frida Torresblanco:
Claudia Marra: We are very excited to see this remake project moving forward, and especially to have found such strong and passionate partners to bring this classic to a new audience. There is already a great deal of excitement around the project, and we believe this is a fantastic way to start this new journey. We can’t wait to see it take shape and move forward together.
David Gregory: Severin Films has devoted two decades to restoring and releasing genre films with the utmost respect for their originality and ongoing legacy. Reimagining these classic titles for a new generation presents a unique opportunity for the genre community, and we look forward to what this partnership will bring forth.
Frank Murray: The impetus for this partnership was our shared commitment to fans of the genre and our desire to deliver for new horror audiences. This is a rare opportunity for an established director to reimagine THE BEYOND, contemporize it as a classic of experiential horror and further the ever-growing cultural significance of Fulci’s work. We also love the built-in sequel opportunity afforded us by Fulci’s Gates of Hell universe.
Frida Torresblanco: Severin is the ideal partner, not just in helping us navigate the rights process but as a uniquely knowledgeable creative sounding board.
This marks a significant expansion of the production arm of Severin Films, which is best known as a physical media label that releases cult movies on physical media, including the so-bad-it's-good classic Birdemic: Shock and Terror and 1978's The Inglorious Bastards, which inspired the title for the 2009 Quentin Tarantino movie Inglourious Basterds.
However, they have also branched out into production over the years before mounting this remake of The Beyond. Although they are primarily behind documentaries about cult media such as Enter the Clones of Bruce (which was directed by David Gregory and explored the "Brucesploitation" subgenre that cropped up after the sudden death of martial arts superstar Bruce Lee) and Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched (which was directed by Kier-La Janisse and follows the history of folk horror), they have produced some narrative work, notably the yearly holiday horror anthology The Haunted Season.
As Murray says, there is indeed an opportunity for the remake of The Beyond to get a sequel, as it is part of Lucio Fulci's loosely related "Gates of Hell" trilogy, of which The Beyond is the second installment, coming after 1980's City of the Living Dead and before 1981's The House by the Cemetery. While the movies don't share characters or storylines, they all star Catriona MacColl and explore themes of Hell's incursion into the material world via various gates.
It ultimately remains to be seen how the remake of The Beyond performs, however. There isn't too much precedent for cult Italian horror movies getting remade in the English language beyond Luca Guadagnino's 2018 reimagining of Dario Argento's 1977 classic Suspiria, which was a notorious bomb, earning just $8 million against its reported $20 million budget in spite of a star-studded cast that included Dakota Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Tilda Swinton (in multiple roles).
- Release Date
- April 22, 1981
- Runtime
- 88 minutes
- Director
- Lucio Fulci
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Catriona MacColl
Liza Merril
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David Warbeck
John McCabe
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Cinzia Monreale
Emily
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Antoine Saint-John
Schweick
- Writers
- Lucio Fulci, Dardano Sacchetti, Giorgio Mariuzzo
- Producers
- Fabrizio De Angelis
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