Only on screen for a short while, this Rottweiler actually shapes the course of the whole film, as it’s his sniffing around Ripley’s escape pod that enables an alien to hitch a lift inside the compound on the prison planet in this (viciously underrated) xenomorph third-parter. Plot: Ripley awakes from hyper-sleep to kill another one of those damn aliens. In keeping with his own charming style, if Fulci uses a drop he uses a gallon. Zombies all disposed of, Dickie trots back to his blind mistress who pats him lovingly before he turns on her and savagely rips her throat out in an amazingly gory slow-mo, blood-gushing scene. They moan and groan as Emily shouts gibberish like “I did what I was asked!” and “I’m not going to go back! You can’t make me go back!” until she sets Dickie on them.ĭickie wastes no time in making a star of himself in this, his key scene as he attacks the crumbly undead with a degree of ferocity that Cujo would be proud of. Dickie has a low-key role until one point in the film when some fantastic looking zombies confront Emily. The Beyond is a camp, OTT and downright outrageous Fulci zombie ‘epic’ which features a blind girl called Emily (who’s from ‘the beyond’ as far as I could work out) and her trusty Alsatian guide dog - Dickie.
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