This third film in the Beyond The Door series takes viewers to Yugoslavia as a possessed train runs amok killing anyone who dares to get in it's way.
A group of American students from Los Angeles embark on an educational trip to Yugoslavia. Once they land, they are taken by boat to a remote village. Our main character Beverly is a shy girl who seems to have some connection to the pagan rituals the tour guide/professor talks about. One night while sleeping in an old log cabin, the villagers nail shut the doors and set the cabin on fire! Most of the students escape, and hop on a train.
Pretty soon it seems like the train has a mind of it's own and is thirsty for blood! Almost immediately, we see two of the drivers and a conductor all murdered in strange and mysterious ways by the train. Eventually, satan reveals himself to Beverly and tells her that he wants her to join him and become a satanist as it is her birthright. Will she follow his lead, or break free and let the good shine through?
I give Beyond the Door III a ton of credit for it's gore and special effects work on the death scenes. A couple of them, including a very gory decapitation via train, are extremely realistic. The acting was just OK. Mary Kohnert led the way as our heroine, the rest were below average for me. Character development was sorely lacking in this one so I didn't care if most of them lived or died.
My biggest problem was the lack of direction by Jeff Kwitny. We'd get some really cool scenes with gore and action, and you'd think the story might be heading in a sensical direction, but it never did. It was hard for me to keep my interest with this one and I really tried. I saw a version that also didn't provide subtitles, so there were some scenes I just couldn't follow as the locals in Yugoslavia were speaking in their Native tongue.
Overall, I'd skip Beyond The Door III unless you are a masochistic horror completist like myself who needs to see every film in a series (whether it is unrelated or not). It was kind of boring just watching the train attack people for an hour and a half.
4/10
A group of American students from Los Angeles embark on an educational trip to Yugoslavia. Once they land, they are taken by boat to a remote village. Our main character Beverly is a shy girl who seems to have some connection to the pagan rituals the tour guide/professor talks about. One night while sleeping in an old log cabin, the villagers nail shut the doors and set the cabin on fire! Most of the students escape, and hop on a train.
Pretty soon it seems like the train has a mind of it's own and is thirsty for blood! Almost immediately, we see two of the drivers and a conductor all murdered in strange and mysterious ways by the train. Eventually, satan reveals himself to Beverly and tells her that he wants her to join him and become a satanist as it is her birthright. Will she follow his lead, or break free and let the good shine through?
I give Beyond the Door III a ton of credit for it's gore and special effects work on the death scenes. A couple of them, including a very gory decapitation via train, are extremely realistic. The acting was just OK. Mary Kohnert led the way as our heroine, the rest were below average for me. Character development was sorely lacking in this one so I didn't care if most of them lived or died.
My biggest problem was the lack of direction by Jeff Kwitny. We'd get some really cool scenes with gore and action, and you'd think the story might be heading in a sensical direction, but it never did. It was hard for me to keep my interest with this one and I really tried. I saw a version that also didn't provide subtitles, so there were some scenes I just couldn't follow as the locals in Yugoslavia were speaking in their Native tongue.
Overall, I'd skip Beyond The Door III unless you are a masochistic horror completist like myself who needs to see every film in a series (whether it is unrelated or not). It was kind of boring just watching the train attack people for an hour and a half.
4/10