Louisiana Movie Poster Museum
Welcome to the the Louisiana Movie Poster Virtual Museum. Since 1895 more than 3,000 movies have been made in or about Louisiana. These posters advertised a few of them. We have hundreds to add, so check back with us as we grow.
Ed and Susan Poole, renowned movie poster experts and authorities on Louisiana film history, curated this initial exhibit. It is based on the Backdrop Louisiana! exhibit that premiered in Slidell, Louisiana in January, 2020 and we’re looking forward to a post-pandemic tour. A smidgen of their knowledge can be found at Learn About Movie Posters, known worldwide as LAMP. Visit Hollywood on the Bayou for a deeper dive into Louisiana film history.
This museum is funded in part by grants from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation and the New Orleans Entertainment Coalition.
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The Beyond
The Beyond was the English title given to the 1981 Italian film E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà, a southern gothic supernatural horror film directed by Lucio Fulci, and starring Catriona MacColl and David Warbeck. The story follows a woman who inherits a hotel in rural Louisiana that was once the site of a horrific murder, and which may be a gateway to hell. It is the second film in Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy after City of the Living Dead (1980), and The House by the Cemetery.
The Beyond was released in Europe in 1981. An edited version was released in the United States on March 1983 as 7 Doors of Death.
The majority of The Beyond was filmed on location in late 1980 in New Orleans, Louisiana, as well as the outlying cities of Metairie, Monroe, and Madisonville. Larry Ray, a New Orleans resident and member of the film council, was hired to help Fulci scout locations, as he was fluent in Italian and could help translate. Ray ultimately became a production assistant. Within New Orleans proper, filming was completed in the French Quarter, Dillard University and St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 which was the location of the funeral sequence.
The historic Otis House near Lake Pontchartrain, located within the Fairview-Riverside State Park, served as the Seven Doors Hotel. During filming, the production designers aged the home's exteriors by spraying the siding with water and dark dye, as well as throwing cement and sand on the floors to make it appear dusty and dilapidated.
The Causeway Commission closed one lane of the Causeway to allow for two hours of filming on the bridge.
The film was never seen in America in its uncut form until 1998. Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Pictures, in association with Grindhouse Releasing, tracked down the original master and restored the film. It played at midnight shows at selected cities.
Poster: U. S. One Sheet R1998