Down on Us is a low budget 1984 movie about a US government plot to assassinate 1960s rock stars Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix, using an elite force of killers. It is sometimes known as Beyond the Doors.
Gregory Allen Chatman as Jimi Hendrix Riba Meryl as Janis Joplin Bryan Wolf as Jim Morrison
Cinematography
Nicholas Josef von Sternberg
Edited by
Larry Randolph
Music by
Jeffrey Dann David Shorey
Distributed by
Omni Leisure International
Release date
1984 (1984)
Running time
117 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
The movie does not use any of the original songs of the artists portrayed due to high royalty fees.[citation needed] Instead, they used songs written to sound like the originals.
Author F. Paul Wilson used a similar premise in his 1987 short story "The Years the Music Died."
The story of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, and how their message for their generation made them targets of a US government plot.
Receptionedit
Variety's review was largely critical of the "campy" reproductions of concerts and other events. The review read, in part, "Pic's only revelation is the claim that Morrison faked his own death in order to regain his privacy".[1]
A review in The Daily News read, "...the whole project is so out of it, it seems like the work of a Martian whose understanding of the counterculture comes entirely from reading old issues of Life magazine".
Referencesedit
^"Film: Beyond The Doors." Variety. Vol. 337, Iss. 7, (Nov 22, 1989): 20, 22. Via Proquest.
^Taggart, Patrick (1984-09-07). "Rock movie is conspiracy of bad ideas". Austin American-Statesman. p. 23. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
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