Comfort for the Disturbed

“You put this movie on to go to sleep?”

My pal Ryan C. Bradley asked me this in a surprised tone a few weeks ago while we were watching Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond. And indeed, he’s right to be shocked. The film features not one but two scenes in which someone’s face is melted, three eye-gouging scenes, a moment where a man’s face is eaten by spiders, a gag…