Beyond The Door/ Devil Within Her

[endo]

Italian/American Exorcist rip-off from 1974. Apparently whoever distributes the movie you personally see determines the title of the film.
I always saw the box as a kid in the video store and it always said Beyond The Door. Even on Netflix it was Beyond the Door and it said that on the disc as well, but when I watched it the title came up Devil Within Her.

Plus, even though most of the cast was American, or English speaking, the whole movie seemed dubbed. And there were numerous visual references to Campbell's Green Pea soup, I would imagine as a shot at The Exorcist. But it got ridiculous, the young son in the movie was drinking from a can of it with a straw. Posters of it on the wall, then a shot of a lunch being packed with 4 cans of it.
It was really weird.

The movie itself was bad, but not Pits of Hell bad. For a blatant rip-off it was tolerable in parts. The budget was low and the acting wasn't great but some scenes were OK.
Way full of cheese.

I wouldn't recommend this one to anybody, but if you feel like you must see it, there are worse out there. My wife absolutely hated it, but compared to some of the crap I've seen, I wouldn't say it was awful, but it was far from good.

[Mrs Vindecco]

It does look a bit of an Exorcist rip-off. Though I was surprised to see Juliet Mills, I think I've only seen her in light-hearted comedies. Interesting though, I prefer old bad horrors to newer ones. The effects were a challenge then, now it's CGI, bad CGI but still CGI.

[endo]

I've wanted to see this one forever and now that I have, I wish I hadn't, lol. The box at the video store was so much scarier.

[Mrs Vindecco]

Aww... sorry Endo. It's horrible when that happens.

[endo]

Well, now I know. For every one that I see that disappoints I manage to find a couple or few that I like. My expectations of most horror movies aren't very high anyway, concerning iffy ones I've never seen that is, so it's always a pleasure when I find a gem and not too much of a disappointment when one stinks, lol.