Beyond the Door Collection

Horror

Beyond the Door III

Columbia Pictures

Avala Film

C.F.S. Košutnjak

Italy

Yugoslavia

United States of America

English

Mary Kohnert

Bo Svenson

Victoria Zinny

Savina Geršak

Sarah Conway Ciminera

William Geiger

Alex Vitale

Ron Williams

Renee Rancourt

Jeremy Sanchez

Susan Zelouf

Tania Alexander

Sheila Goldberg

Jeff Kwitny

Ovidio G. Assonitis

Carlo Maria Cordio

Claudio M. Cutry

Adolfo Bartoli

Petar Cvejić

Vladislav Lašić

Vittorio Biseo

Angelo Mattei

Mario Ciccarella

Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli

Miodrag Mirić

Mario Novelli

Srba Kabadajic

Pierluigi Ciriaci

Mario Molli

**_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-

Beyond the Door III (1989) - Trailer HD 1080p

Beyond the Door III (1989) [Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray Promo Trailer]

Amok Train - Fahrt ins Nichts (International Trailer)

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