Beyond the Door III

"Some doors are best left closed!"

1989 1h 34m EN

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4.8

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★4.8TMDB · 35

Horror

Synopsis

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A shy co-ed and her classmates travel to Europe to see a ritual. With a satanist/professor with them, he lures them into deadly traps to become sacrifices to Satan. One co-ed is a virgin, the main key to bring Satan back to life. But can the co-ed lose her virginity before Satan controls the world?

“Some doors are best left closed!”

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Cast

Mary Kohnert
Beverly Putnic
Bo Svenson
Professor Andromolek
Victoria Zinny
Beverly's Mother
Savina Geršak
Sava
Sarah Conway Ciminera
Christie
William Geiger
Kevin
Alex Vitale
Angel
Ron Williams
Larry

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jeff Kwitny
Writers: Sheila Goldberg
Languages: English
Countries: Italy, Yugoslavia, United States of America

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ERA

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37 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: Italy, Yugoslavia, United States of America.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Beyond the Door Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jeff Kwitny, shot by Adolfo Bartoli. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Claudio M. Cutry shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Mary Kohnert and Bo Svenson and Victoria Zinny carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Some doors are best left closed!".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Jeff Kwitny directs. Adolfo Bartoli behind the camera. Claudio M. Cutry cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Italy, Yugoslavia, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

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137 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2International production across 3 countries: Italy, Yugoslavia, United States of America.
3Part of the "Beyond the Door Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Directed by Jeff Kwitny, shot by Adolfo Bartoli. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Editor Claudio M. Cutry shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Mary Kohnert and Bo Svenson and Victoria Zinny carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Some doors are best left closed!".
9IMDB entry: tt0096920 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Only 35 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Adolfo Bartoli
Editing: Claudio M. Cutry
Makeup / hair: Vittorio Biseo
Runtime: 94 min · 1h 34m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Beyond the Door III (1989)

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Beyond the Door Collection

Beyond the Door 1-3

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Jeff Kwitny

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Wuchak2022-12-17
★ 6/10
The Devil’s Train A group of students from Los Angeles take a trip to Serbia to learn about their culture and an ancient ceremony. After a strange turn of events, some of them hop a train to escape. Big mistake. "Beyond the Door III" (1989) has the same set-up as the future “Subspecies” (1991), but don’t look for any vampirism as it mixes bits of “The Wicker Man” (1973) with a lot of “Runaway Train” (1985) and a dash of devilry. It was released on video as “Amok Train” in the USA and as “Death Train” in the UK, both of which are better titles since this is a stand-alone flick with zero to do with the first two “Beyond the Door” movies from 1974 and 1977. It’s an Italian/Yugoslavian production and when Epic Productions acquired the distribution rights, they simply changed its working title, “The Train,” to “Beyond the Gates III” in the hopes of better sales. Don’t look for any humor. This is deadly serious horror-adventure with increasing supernatural happenings. It has a darkly artistic bent like “Runaway Train,” although it’s not exceptional like that powerful film (not to mention being a different genre). There are no less than four quality women in the flick, but their presence is never really capitalized on (and I’m not talking ’bout nudity or sleaze). The biggest problem is the puzzling things that happen with little logic. I’d give examples but I don’t want to give anything away. Can everything in the story be logically explained or did the supernatural angle simply give the screenwriter license to include several ‘cool’ aspects with little rhyme or reason? The film runs 1 hour, 34 minutes, and was shot in Serbia. GRADE: B-

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