Welcome back to Screams from the Crypt, the Talk Film Society’s home for horror! This week Ben Lane is here with a review of 2016's Beyond The Gates, a horror film that he feels deserves an audience. It's currently streaming on Netflix!

Last October, I drove to Columbus, Ohio to attend Shock Around the Clock, a 24-hour horror marathon which started at noon and ended at noon, the time in-between consisting of nothing but horror movie mayhem. This was my first horror marathon, so my excitement was through-the-roof, as a lifelong fascination with horror cinema was about to culminate in this day long event surrounded by hundreds of other fans. Admidst all the brouhaha and pandemonium after the fifth or sixth movie, the announcer introduced the midwest premiere of a new indie horror movie called Beyond the Gates.

This scenario may be why I enjoyed Beyond the Gates so much, so if you fear that the praise I dish out is biased, you aren't entirely wrong. But I must assess that after revisiting the film tonight in the darkness of my living room, I still find most of what I initially liked about it still stands.