Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: VCI8156
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 089859815621
- Street Date: 08/15/23
- PreBook Date: 07/11/23
- Label: VCI Entertainment »
- Genre: Documentary
- Run Time: 95 mins
- Number of Discs: 0
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 1975
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: English
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- John Carradine
- Rolf Olsen
- Paul Ross
- Edgar D. Mitchell
- Othmar Fischer
- Director: Rolf Olsen
Product Assets
Journey Into The Beyond (4k Restoration)
John Carradine narrates a look at psychic phenomena: crying statues, levitation, a witch doctor's eye surgery.
- List Price: $19.95
- Your Price: $19.95
- In Stock: 194
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A minor bad taste classic Journey into the Beyond was one of the first shock documentaries directed by Rolf Olsen, a journeyman director whose work includes everything from violent action movies, sexploitation epics and even children's films. An apparent investigation into the fringes of psychic spirituality with so-called real experts, exorcisms and seances, be warned Journey also manages to be a very sleazy cocktail indeed. There's many a grotty scene of real brain tumor removal and animal cruelty. An unforgettable scene offers a Third-World doctor yanking out cancers from his patients using his bare hands and no anesthetic. Although it seems less outrageous compared to later films of its ilk i.e. the Faces of Death series, Journey turned many people pale in the Seventies. Some prints came with a warning bell to alert viewers of the more vomitous scenes and when it was shown at a Spanish horror film festival in 1978 it had mass walkouts and numerous retchings. Olsen also directed Shocking Asia and its sequel under pseudonyms. The lesser Shocking Asia 2 shares some footage with this movie. Imdb Pro.
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Sales Points
- First time available as a stand-alone DVD!
- From director Rolf Olsen (Bloody Friday (1972)
- Narrated by John Carradine (Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath)
- Classic film enthusiasts will love the 'violence warning' gimmick, (i.e. a horn sound played before violent sequences, and a bell-ring to indicate the end of the violent scenes).
