
A shy co-ed and her classmates travel to the Balkans in Europe to see a rare local 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?... (Full plot summary below)
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A shy co-ed and her classmates travel to the Balkans in Europe to see a rare local 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?
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| User ReviewFilmGrinder SAmerican tourists and the Yogaslavian rail road vs. Satan and followers. Love those miniture shots. "SHE'S NOT A VIRGIN!"-Old Woman (Olga Poznatoz) |
| User ReviewAllan CA group of students take a trip to Eastern Europe with their professor to witness a sacred pagan ritual, but quickly learn that their professor indents for them to be sacrificed at said ritual. The professor also takes a special interest in one virginal co-ed, since a virgin sacrifice is something special for bringing Satan to life. Most of the film takes place on a possessed train and includes a lot of low budget gore, which is kind of fun if that's your sort of thing. The story however is pretty still when the main suspense of the film involved whether the virginal co-ed will have sex before Satan returns to take over the world. This film is by no means a good horror film, but for fans of cheap Italian horror, it does have some appealing elements. There is some vivid color photography, quirky European settings, and there's also some kind of fun use of low budget miniature sets. I enjoyed this film, which actually bears no connection to the first two "Beyond the Door" films, but I would not recommend it for anyone who's not a fan of Euro Horror. |
| User ReviewAndrew C"Incredible! The train is back on the tracks!" |
| User ReviewRobert BBeyond the Door III (Jeff Kwitny, 1989) Beyond the Door III, also released under its original title Amok Train, has as much to do with the first two Beyond the Door movies as Zombie 5: Killing Birds has to do with Dawn of the Dead... in other words, not a damn thing. What it is, and what gives it the rather limited appeal it has, is an attempt by two Americans, LA director Jeff Kwitny (Lightning in a Bottle) and Sheila Goldberg (who, perhaps not coincidentally, co-wrote the script for Killing Birds with director Claudio Lattanzi), to make a supernatural giallo. The end result doesn't work too well, but you've got to admire the gumption, no? Plot: a college professor and some of her charges head off into the wilds of Eastern Europe for their comparative religion class (note: I'm extrapolating there, it could just as easily be an archeology class. Or sociology. Or calculus, in a particularly weird school.), where they hook up with ultra-creepy Professor Andromolek (Walking Tall's Bo Svenson). Andromolek takes them even father from civilization, to a small village in the middle of nowhere where everyone bunks down for the night in preparation for some sort of ancient religious ritual the next day. Problem is, it's kind of like getting invited to dinner by cannibals; you never know if you're a guest or the main course. One of the students, Beverly Mr. Baseball's Mary Kohnert), is a virgin, and the village folks are planning on sacrificing her to conjure up the devil. Where does the train come into all this, you ask? Some of the escaping students stumble upon a track and hop the train, which is full of all sorts of weirdos who make the villagers look positively friendly in comparison... While this is certainly not deathless cinema, it's hard to deny its influence on things that have popped up since; the 2008 torture-porn flick Train seems to be almost a direct descendant of the second half of this movie, for example. And while it's full of the usual silliness one expects from bad low-budget cinema (awful acting, murky camerawork, fubling direction, script full of plot holes, etc.), it's hard to deny the film is entertaining on some levels. Stupid, yes, but entertaining. If you're a fan of the Satanic-panic films of the eighties, this is going to be right up your alley, and were I you I would definitely check it out. The rest of you, maybe not so much unless you're familiar enough with movies like it to know what you're getting into. ** |
| User ReviewAl MThe final film in the Beyond the Door trilogy, perhaps the strangest trilogy in the horror world. Why is that? Because each "sequel" wasn't originally supposed to be a sequel. They were made under different titles and later retitled sequels in various parts of the world. Here we have a film simply made as "The Train" but thanks to our marketing executives it was retitled "Beyond the Door III" in many areas including the U.S. I'm still puzzled why they retitled it to make it a Beyond the Door sequel. I mean did they really think a fake "franchise" that was over 10 years old at the time was going to be a good sale title? What's even more ironic is the U.S. DVD release has the alternate title Amok Train on the box art but the title card on the film still reads "Beyond the Door III". The title that was originally supposed to be what attracted people to the film is now a title that distributors seem embarrassed of and won't even put on the box art! Even Beyond the Door II got released with its alternate title Shock on DVD. Again to me it seems that today no one wants their film to be associated with the original Beyond the Door, despite that title being a selling point back in the day. Ok enough with the title issues, let's move on and review Beyond the Door III. This film doesn't have a possessed baby or child like the fist films. this time we have a satanically possessed train. You read that right. A satanically possessed train. Ok, it sounds silly but a satanically possessed train sounds just interesting enough for me to give this film a shot. The film opens with some "college" students (who must all be non-trads as they all look much older than they are supposed to be) who get invited to go on a trip to Romania. They meet up with their professor (non-other than genre great Bo Svenson) who takes them to an ultra creepy village that happens to be occupied by Satanists. Not surprisingly the villagers want to kill the students and they flee catching a ride on a passing train. That's not enough to stop the Devil as the train then becomes possessed, decapitating the conductor and it starts killing off all our students one by one. This is all done because one of the students has an evil birthmark making her destined to become the Devil's bride. The absolute most ludicrous moment is when a couple of the students jump off the train to escape and the train later jumps the tracks, moves along the swamp like a god damn car to run down the escapees and then jumps back on the tracks like it never happened. I am not making this up and it all happens in the film with perhaps the most god-awful miniatures ever to make it to celluloid this side of Japan. Like a critical quote on the DVD box cover says, this film is "delightfully absurd." I couldn't have put it better. Despite the film being absolutely moronic with its plot, I have to say I had a great time with it. I even had a better time watching this than the original Beyond the Door. For one thing that film didn't have a satanically possessed train! The villagers in the beginning of the film were really creepy and I would have liked to see more of them (along with Bo Svensen whose role is far too small). Overall for people who like to seek out weird bizarre Euro Trash films that are actually entertaining, give this a shot. Don't be fooled by the awful DVD cover art making this look like some modern Sci Fi channel drek. Behind that cover is a golden turd waiting to be re-discovered by genre fans. Just print off a new cover featuring the original "Beyond the Door III" poster art and you will be good to go. |