31 Days of Horror 2023 Day 30 Beyond the Door III AKA Amok Train

 

TITLE-Beyond the Door III AKA AMok Train

SOURCE-Joe Bob's Last Drive In on Shudder

So this years season of the Last Drive In was the first one since I got Shudder that I watched NONE of the episodes as they aired. And each week when I would go look see what was aired it was either stuff I have seen 100 times or stuff I didn't give a crap about.

Months back had been slowly working my way through each episode,and man some of them were rough,and started up Beyond the Door III. Yea I had heard about this late 80s Italian film. Not connected at all to the previous 2 Beyond the Door films. Thinking I saw this years back when a pile of us were working our way through the local mom and pop video stores horror sections. Remember nothing about that viewing. And from my research some releases of this movie in the US cut out most of the gore. Which would make this movie fairly forgettable.

College kids in Eastern Europe run into trouble. Hop a near by train to get out of the country fast. But this train is possessed and can so shit like leave the tracks to run over someone in a boat in a lake!

This is just pure 80s Italian gore and insanity. With that gore cut out the film is lacking the punch it needs. Acting is  pretty lackluster. Bo Svenson is the biggest name and he is barely in the film,as a teacher to the college kids. The plot is all over the place and doesn't really make sense. The films fast pace and the crazy gore are what makes this film so appealing.

Oh and that gore. Yea most remembered is when the one lady's head starts to split open then all her skin slides off. Which is a great practical gore effect. For me the two that stand out the most are when the train decapitates the lady in the boat on the lake. And when the one dude is hanging outside the train and gets impaled on a board hanging off a watertower.

If this had had the gore in it in that viewing decades ago,thinking it was 96ish,it would have been a hit. the 5 to 10 of us that would gather often to drink and watch b-horror loved gore and just heckling the hell out of movies. This would work for that perfectly.

The DVD is still easy to find for not a bad price,but seeing reviews claiming the picture is not great. The Blu Ray is OOP and a bit pricey. What Shudder has is the Blu ray.

Give this a watch on Shudder if you like Euro Horror and Gore.

Beyond the Door III gets a B-