Remember the scene in "The Exorcist" where Linda Blair projectile vomited green liquid across the screen? Of course you remember. It's one of those scenes that you don't even have to have seen it to remember it - it's that famous.
The makers of "Beyond the Door", also known as "The Devil Within Her", certainly remember it, and a few of the other effects shots from Friedkin's horror classic, namely the head spinning and the levitating.
"The Exorcist", no matter how many times you watch it, is insidious, shocking and disturbing. You think you know what's coming but it always finds a way to sneak up on you.
The best that can be said about "Beyond the Door" is that enhances your appreciation of the movie it rips off by showing you how bad that movie might have been if it were directed by hacks like this one is, rather than a master like William Friedkin.
I think the vomit in "The Exorcist" was pea soup. In "Beyond the Door", it's a thicker substance like something you'd see in an Indian restaurant. Rather than spraying out as a projectile, it tumbles out of the woman's mouth like mud driven downhill in a rainstorm. Seeing the possessed woman eating it again with apparent relish was the only part of this movie that made me feel anything other than boredom, but I wouldn't say it was a pleasant feeling (disgust and nausea).
The movie is a mess, with no real story other than "woman is possessed and husband takes a long, long, long time to realise it". It has a curious prologue with a dastardly narrator promising "soon you will be caught up" in the events of the film, and then some nudity that has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. The voice lies - I never felt caught up or involved at all in what I was watching. The movie is pointless garbage and I was so grateful when it was finally over.
The makers of "Beyond the Door", also known as "The Devil Within Her", certainly remember it, and a few of the other effects shots from Friedkin's horror classic, namely the head spinning and the levitating.
"The Exorcist", no matter how many times you watch it, is insidious, shocking and disturbing. You think you know what's coming but it always finds a way to sneak up on you.
The best that can be said about "Beyond the Door" is that enhances your appreciation of the movie it rips off by showing you how bad that movie might have been if it were directed by hacks like this one is, rather than a master like William Friedkin.
I think the vomit in "The Exorcist" was pea soup. In "Beyond the Door", it's a thicker substance like something you'd see in an Indian restaurant. Rather than spraying out as a projectile, it tumbles out of the woman's mouth like mud driven downhill in a rainstorm. Seeing the possessed woman eating it again with apparent relish was the only part of this movie that made me feel anything other than boredom, but I wouldn't say it was a pleasant feeling (disgust and nausea).
The movie is a mess, with no real story other than "woman is possessed and husband takes a long, long, long time to realise it". It has a curious prologue with a dastardly narrator promising "soon you will be caught up" in the events of the film, and then some nudity that has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. The voice lies - I never felt caught up or involved at all in what I was watching. The movie is pointless garbage and I was so grateful when it was finally over.