Beyond the Door (1974 film)

Beyond the Door
Italian film poster
ItalianChi sei?
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Directed by
Written by
  • Ovidio G. Assonitis
  • Antonio Troisio
  • Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli
  • Giorgio Marini
  • Aldo Crudo
  • Alex Rebar
  • Christopher Cruise
Produced by
  • Ovidio G. Assonitis
  • Enzo Doria
Starring
CinematographyRoberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli
Edited byAngelo Curi
Music byFranco Micalizzi
Production
company
A-Erre Cinematografica
Distributed byVariety Distribution (Italy)
Release date
  • 21 November 1974 (1974-11-21) (Italy)
Running time
    • 109 minutes
    • 97 minutes (US cut)
CountryItaly
Budget$350,000
Box office$15 million or $7.1 million

Beyond the Door (Italian: Chi sei?, lit.'Who are you?', also released as The Devil Within Her) is a 1974 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis and Roberto D'Ettore Piazzoli, starring Juliet Mills, Gabriele Lavia, and Richard Johnson. The plot follows a San Francisco housewife (Mills) who becomes demonically possessed in the midst of a pregnancy.

Beyond the Door opened in the United States in May 1975, and became a major commercial success, grossing approximately $15 million. Critical reaction to the film was largely negative, with numerous critics deeming it an imitation of The Exorcist (1973). That film's distributor, Warner Bros., filed a lawsuit against the production company behind Beyond the Door, claiming copyright infringement. A settlement was ultimately reached in 1979.

This would be the first entry into the Beyond the Door trilogy in the United States as Mario Bava's Shock (1977) was re-titled Beyond the Door II and branded as a sequel, though it has no relation to the 1974 film other than the presence of actor David Colin Jr.. A second sequel, Beyond the Door III, was also released in 1989, though it too bears no relation to the previous two films.