Liza Merrill
Background
Liza Merrill is the owner of Seven Doors Hotel in Mandeville, Louisiana. She used to live in New York City and was a model, dancer and secretary at one time. She inherited the hotel from a rich uncle who was a bachelor.
During the events of The Beyond (1981) played by Catriona MacColl
Liza and Martin Avery are at the now dilapidated hotel. She tells him she only inherited the hotel and no money along with it, but he insists they continue on with the architectural plans he has for it. She calls out to Larry who tells her he will have finished painting one of the sides of the hotel by the end of the day. Larry screams and falls off the scaffolding and lands on his back. He is brought into the motel where he tells Liza and Martin what he saw. Liza asks Arthur where the doctor is and he tells her the doctor is on his way. Dr. John McCabe drives up and tells Liza, Larry needs to get to the hospital. Dr. McCabe then transports Larry to his car and drives away. Martin finds the painting Schweick was painting the night he was killed and shows it to Liza. The buzzer from room 36 suddenly starts to go off, but Liza says no one is in the room. Joe the Plumber arrives and Liza tells him there is no water coming from the faucets, but the basement is flooded. Martha walks up to Liza and Joe in the basement and tells them she made a pathway of wood over the water for Joe. Liza finds Arthur in her room and he tells her he was looking for keys. She tells him to unclog the chimney and he asks if it was Joe he heard drive up.
As Liza is driving into town, she is forced to stop when she sees Emily and her dog, Dicky standing in the middle of the road. Liza drives Emily to Emily's home and Emily tells Liza she must not reopen the hotel and to leave it. Liza and Dr. McCabe go out to a bar and she tells him about her past, how the hotel is her last chance to be successful and how Martha and Arthur came with the property. Liza hugs Jill after the funeral for Joe and Mary-Ann During the night, Liza hears someone calling her name and finds Emily and Dicky in her hotel. Emily tells Liza about the history of the hotel and Schweick, but stops her story when she feels the presence of Schweick. Emily tells Liza to never enter room 36, but Liza doesn't believe her. Emily touches Schweiks painting, but runs away when her hands start to bleed. The next day Liza enters room 36 and finds the Eibon book. She opens the door to the bathroom and sees the rotting remains of Schweick crucified to the wall. She runs away and Dr. McCabe arrives at the hotel. They both go back into the bathroom, but nothing is in there, but the nails and the Eibon book is missing. Liza tells Dr. McCabe about Emily, but Dr. McCabe says no one lives at the house Emily supposedly lives in. Liza has a meeting with Martin and while they are walking she thinks she sees the Eibon book in a used bookstore, but it turns out to be a different book when she picks it up.
Liza goes down into the basement and is attacked by a now zombified Arthur. She manages to get away and runs into Dr. McCabe. He tells her the house Emily was in was abandoned for the past 50 years and tells her he read the Eibon book. They go into the basement to look for Arthur and their is a sudden windstorm and they run out of the hotel. They get into Dr. McCabe's car and as they are driving to the hospital, Liza notices they haven't seen anyone outside. At the hospital, they go to the laboratory and Dr. McCabe gets a gun from his desk, but when he tries to make a phone call, the line is dead. Liza is attacked by a Zombie, but Dr. McCabe saves her. They get separated when Liza gets into an elevator that drops her off at the morgue. She sees Jill and runs to comfort her. Liza takes the elevator back up along with Jill and Dr. McCabe gets into the elevator and they go to another floor where they see the living dead body of Schweick who starts to walk towards them. Jill attacks Liza, but Dr. McCabe shoots the top of Jill's head off. They run down some stairs and find themselves back in the basement of the hotel. They walk through the tunnels in the basement and find themselves in Hell, just like in Schweick's painting. Their eyes then turn to the milky color and they disappear.
