This article originally appeared in the November 2014 BOSTON COMPASS, #58.

PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE

THE BEYOND (1983) dir. LUCIO FULCI
11/21 & 11/22, 11:59PM, $10.25, @COOLIDGE

Very excited to see that The Coolidge is screening Lucio Fulci’s THE BEYOND as part of their AFTER MIDNITE (AKA midnight movie) series. Singularly important to this writer is Fulci’s Louisiana set, ghostly gore film… the first midnight movie I ever attended!

Anchor Bay (they were so good) had just released the film on DVD/ VHS and I’d bought the special edition that came in a tin box with a postcard of the film’s poster (and little more). Then one day, I was in Pipeline Records (Matt (Fat) Day’s shop, RIP) in Harvard Sq., and there next to a Biggie Smalls 12” was the film’s poster…

Dan Shea