From Beyond Movie
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Humans are such easy prey.
Everythinng is alive...and hungry.
Dr. Pretorius and his colleagues are working on a sensational experiment: by means of stimulation of the pineal gland, they want to open the human mind to higher dimensions. When the experiment succeeds, however, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms, which apparently are floating around us all the time. When Dr. Pretorius is killed by one of them, Dr. Tillinghast is under suspect and thrown into the psycho ward due to his stories. Only the ambitious psychologist Dr. McMichaels believes him and wants to continue the experiment.
| Jeffrey Combs | Crawford Tillinghast |
| Barbara Crampton | Dr. Katherine McMichaels |
| Ken Foree | Buford 'Bubba' Brownlee |
| Ted Sorel | Dr. Edward Pretorius |
| Carolyn Purdy-Gordon | Dr. Bloch |
| Bunny Summers | Neighbor Lady |
| Bruce McGuire | Jordan Fields |
| Del Russel | Ambulance Driver |
| Dale Wyatt | Paramedic |
| Karen Christenfeld | Nurse |
| Andy Miller | Patient |
| John Leamer | Shock Technician |
| Regina Bleesz | Bondage Girl |
| Stuart Gordon |
6.50 out of 10 (2114 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Good special effects and rather interesting story.
posted on 11 May 2009It has some very good stuff in it, but I still think there is just something missing. This movie has Combs in it and Barbara Crampton in it and I know these two were also in the later movie "Castle Freak" together, thought this is the better movie. Combs is a scientist who was working with another scientist using a tuning fork like instrument to stimulate a gland. When this gland is working though, you can see these creatures floating around and they can see you and they attack. The scientist working with Combs gets his head bitten off and Combs ends up in a mental hospital. So enter Crampton who whisks him away, back to the place where the experiment took place to recreate it. Ken Foree from "The Dawn of the Dead" is a cop escorting them. They get the tuner working again, against Combs wishes to just leave it alone and here comes his old pal, now somehow fused with the creature that killed him. The rest of the movie is just the very annoying gal repeatedly wanting to turn on the machine against the cop's and Combs' wishes. She gets on my nerves the way she keeps turning it on and putting them in danger. The ending is pretty gory though and makes up for some of the bad parts of the film.
Not great but solid
posted on 06 Mar 2009Stuart Gordon and his pals from Re-Animator take gruesome monster effects to the next level and bring forth From Beyond. Based on a 7 page story by H.P. Lovecraft, Gordon and co. concoct a story about a mad scientist who's found a portal to the Beyond.While it's always great to see Jeffrey Combs do his mad scientist bit, From Beyond doesn't work as well as Re-Animator. It's not as gruesomely funny or suspenseful but it does have some astounding make up effects and the film's first half is very atmospheric and overall entertaining. But the film feels stretched and the second half is a letdown. It's got some eye popping gore scenes, to be sure, and the hospital sequence does work well but the end seems like a repeat of already established material.From Beyond is solid horror entertainment, not great.
Funny, scary, erotic, bizarre, how can it get any better?
posted on 12 Dec 2008From Beyond is one of my best horror movies. It is scary, erotic, funny, and just plain fun. The movie has a lot of adequate special effects, but suffers from the usual exaggerated style of most modern productions - becoming "too much" by about mid movie. -- but that didn't become serious distraction. The first few minutes of the film will give the flavor of things to come. Worth the trip to the video store - and for me, to own a copy.
Nightmare to get hold of...
posted on 15 Jul 2008A Sci-fi Horror:In 1986 I rented this film, & that was the last time we saw it in the UK, 'bloody hell!' I have tried to get this film on video, it is still out in the USA, but I have had no luck.The film is based around a scientists bid to find the sixth sense, a place of wonder & horror. As he gradually finds this we are thrown back & fro into his sick & twisted sexuality, oh by the way he's a eunuch 'no todger'.
From Beyond Makes Me Horny
posted on 08 Mar 2008The Persistence Of Memory (Apologies to Dali). A film viewed many, many years ago. A certain scene sticks in my head, has been there, and still remains there, surfacing from time to time. The film, suffice to say, is very much below par. It was just another in a long string of B horror films that my cousin Kirk and I rented from the video store when I would stay the night at his house. You see, I was not allowed to watch these sort of films in my own house. My parents were appalled at the gratuitous gore and sexually graphic nature that most of these films tended to delve into. But they always fascinated me, especially since they were banned in my own home, I would all the more want to watch them -- the deeper you hide the diamonds, the more the pirate attempts to seek them. I am by no means a "horror film buff", but in my youth these movies added a fair amount of adventure and uncertainty to my otherwise innocuous existence. Surprisingly, to this very day, I have a fairly vast and useless wealth of knowledge concerning cheesy, gory, stupid, and inept horror films of the 1980s.But there was this one film called From Beyond and for some really strange reason, I have always remembered it. The film was a adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft book, and loosely tied in with the whole Re-Animator series. I never saw any of the Re-Animator films, so I didn't really have any reference to the actors, plots, filmmakers, etc...The only thing I knew was that these movies always followed the same basic clichéd format: the protagonist -usually a doctor, or some pretty woman, would invariably disturb some kind of mechanism, or mess around with an experiment, and hence a antagonist would materialize to wreak havoc on a small town, or a laboratory/hospital type location.Well, in this film that's pretty much what happens. So, when Kirk wanted to rent this I had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen. As I remember, the film progressed and had its fair share of cheesy chills and thrills. But, somewhere in the middle of the film it shifts, and for a little bit it almost becomes a soft porn. The pretty woman protagonist, who I found out is an actress named Barbara Crampton, becomes possessed (this is never really explained) and she proceeds to put on a bondage type of outfit and prances around a bit. She messes with the other protagonist, who had sustained an earlier injury, by trying to seduce him a little bit. In the context of the film this scene makes no sense at all. However, to my young and naive eyes, this was the best scene I had ever watched in a movie. Man, I didn't know what to think. I was excited and dumbfounded as to why this movie had a scene like that. Only years later did I realize that the other main ingredient in '80s horror films was a little bit of the IL' T&A. So after watching From Beyond, I didn't care about the film itself, only that one scene. I always remembered it, and I always knew it'd be in the video store if I hungered for any "visual stimuli". It was nice because I was too young and too scared to buy real porn at the liquor store, but I wasn't too young or embarrassed to rent this movie - which looked like a really bad horror movie as indicated by the artwork on the box. Ahhh, the treasure that was hidden just about thirty-five minutes into the movie. Suffice to say, the fast-forward and pause button was in constant use while watching From Beyond.It's funny, just recently I was at the video store and happened to notice a copy of From Beyond in the horror section. I laughed to myself and thought of my youth - how much I didn't know in those days, how shy and naive I was back then. I started to walk away, but decided to reach down and pick up the box. For some reason, I found myself at the checkout counter with the video in my hands - along with new DVD's of actual films I wanted to see. "What the hell" I thought, as weird little smirk came across my face. I drove home and prepared to fire up the IL' VCR and have the fast-forward and pause buttons ready to go. Good times, good times
From Lovecraft.
posted on 12 Dec 2007From the same writers and director as Re-Animator comes this, From Beyond. Like Re-Animator, From Beyond starts off slow, it takes almost forty minutes to really get going. But just as when Dan hears his cat scream in the night, when the machine is activated the second time, the fun begins. Stuart Gordon's direction is way too lazy at the start and it's only the twisted elements of the story that finally bring it to life. It would have been interesting to see this played out in the period that it was written as a lot of the humor and images play more to that repressed era and the shocking bits would have been all the more shocking. The two images that really jump are when Crawford's pineal gland rises phallicly out of his forehead and Barbara Crampton, decked out in full bondage gear, grinding on the comatose Crawford. But too much of what is good about this movie is due to Lovecraft's story or the trio of Combs, Crampton, and Ken Foree.
Wonderfully gross fun!
posted on 12 Nov 2007The makers of RE-ANIMATOR, strike again with this weird, gross & very bloody & gooey sci-fi/horror epic. A scientist (TED SOREL) creates a machine with the help of his partner (RE-ANIMATOR'S own JEFFREY COMBS) that allows one to see into another dimension, unfortunately, the creatures, when they see them, come over into our world & once out, they posses the head Scientist & transform him into a shape shifting monstrosity with a sexual appetite & really sick humor to match. When a COP (KEN FOREE, DAWN OF THE DEAD 78') & a female DOCTOR (BARBRA CRAMPTON, RE-ANIMATOR) try to find out of the scientist's assistant is insane or telling the truth about the events that he claimed happened to the lead scientist, they too get mixed up into the madness & there may be no escape. Fantastic gore epic, with great monster effects, stunning visuals & great acting by all involved, not quite as good as RE-ANIMATOR, but it's really close. A MUST SEE for all horror/sci-fi fans! **** (stars)
Rather entertaining....
posted on 02 Aug 2007Entertaining horror film with some imaginative ideas and concepts, but ultimately it's more a showcase for gruesome special effects than anything else. The effects themselves are good, though not up to par with those of "The Thing" (1982) or "The Fly" (1986). Still, Barbara Crampton in leather is a sight to behold! This is not recommended for mainstream audiences, but as a straightforward gore flick it's above average. (**)
It Bit His Head Off...Like A Gingerbread Man!!!!
posted on 12 Jun 2007Scientist create a device that stimulates the pineal gland, making it possible to see these creatures living among us and actually be able to interact with them. The only problem is these creatures are not friendly and will most likely bite your head off....and if I can borrow a quote from Combs...."Like a gingerbread man".These cheesy and campy flick was gross and fun. I figure I would not have enjoyed as much as I did if I were to see it alone. The plot is ridiculous and the events that happen are even more, yet you are there cheering it all on.Jeffery Combs, the creepiest bastard alive, is the lead scientist. After the first experiment goes wrong, in which his boss has his head bitten off, he is thrown in an institution. They think he is schizophrenic, but one woman wants to hear his case. She believes him and along with Ken Foree (shout out to my boy) go back to the house to confront this machine and the monsters it brings out.Of course she gets sucked in by the perverse power of it all and flips the switch back on numerous times. Resulting in a scene in which she is almost raped by this half man half creature while Combs is in the basement getting eating alive...only to be saved by Foree. Yet when he is saved, all of his hair is gone? Okay, I'll roll with it.This is a Gordon film, his style is all over it. The perverse sexuality, the violence, the comedy, everything. The special effects are there, takes you back to the days before CGI. It feels real, looks fake and is 100% disgusting. This film is not for everyone, this is evident as a father took his kid to leave the theatre within the first ten minutes. Yet for horror fans, I think it's something that should be experienced. It doesn't go above and beyond and really explore this nature of having these creatures live among us, which is a shame because that would have been neat.This is a horror film that doesn't have much horror in it, horror as in trying to scare people. There is not a real scare here, yet everything about this film is grotesque and in your face that you don't need it. It blends sci/fi and horror well and is a film that will undoubtedly get you talking, for better or worse. I enjoyed it for what it was.
Stomach Churning Contents Revealed
posted on 25 May 2007This seminal film by Stuart Gordon reeks pure 80's. Following the success of the far superior Re-Animator, Gordon experiments with one of the works of his favourite literary sources: HP Lovecraft. The film tackles the popular sci-fiction theme of the sixth dimension -- and considering the small-budget limitations placed upon the director, it is a reasonable treatment of the multi-dimension theme. The resonator depicted in the film demonstrates strong Lovecraftian imagery . . . not easy to achieve. What strengthens the film are the grotesque F/X and Jeffery Combs/Barbara Crampton: both of these elements are excellent (for the genre and budget). Some of the F/X are really stomach churning -- try eating jello or fried liver and Chianti when watching the film . . . If your are a HPL, Gordon, Combs or Crampton fan, this film is an essential viewing for you.
Why you should own from beyond...
posted on 08 Mar 2007The 80's horror culture of b-movies i believe was born from two gentlemen you would love your folks to meet on a dark winters night,Mr Stuart gordon and Mr Brian Yuzna. Stuart gordon started a series of gore movies early in the 80's with re-animator and from beyond that set up a generation of splattered teenage brains all over the world! From beyond is one of my favorite horror movies of this genre and contains all the gore and sex that a growing boy needs! Bring on the raw meat and jelly! I highly recommend this movie if you can find a copy as it is now deleted but well worth a few quid from any market, I promise you wont regret it. Keep a look out too for brian yuzna movies i.e. return of the living dead 3 or the dentist 1+2 which are some of his best. Enjoy a cuddle up on the couch with the missus while you watch em, She'll think your dead romantic and never want flowers again!
From Beyond, finally on DVD!!
posted on 09 Feb 2007I saw this at the cinema when it was first out, and have had it on VHS for a long time, but now, finally, the DVD has been released (Unrated director's cut) and it looks great. As for what's different in comparison to the version I've been used to, uh, I did notice a couple scenes but when one hasn't seen something in a while it's really hard to say. Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) is assistant to Dr. Pretorius (Ted Sorel) and has fired up the good doctor's invention, which is a resonator that stimulates the pineal gland and allows humans to see into another dimension. At first Crawford is in awe of the thing & then gets attacked by one of the creatures he sees floating in the ether, one of several things resembling moray eels. Of course he runs to get Dr. Pretorius to come see & the good doctor is so excited he loses his head, literally, so when Crawford runs screaming from the house he's snagged by the cops & taken to a nut-house, for it's believed he's responsible for the death. Along comes Dr. Katherine McMichaels (there are lots of doctors in this), played by Barbara Crampton, who doesn't believe Crawford is nuts and eventually with the help of a big cop Bubba (Ken Foree) she returns him to the house to find out what happened. And find out she does, and much, much more. It seems that with every use of the resonator the pineal glands of our friends are being stimulated, and their behavior is becoming a bit strange. Also, it seems that not only was Dr. Pretorius somewhat of a genius, he was also into S&M and a swell guy overall, but any firing up of the resonator now causes him to come back and he's changed a bit, in fact he's finding that access to this other dimension has greatly increased his capacity for being a power-hungry sex pervert, and that's generally never a good thing. One of the best scenes is when Bubba tells Katherine to "get dressed" to take Crawford back to the nut-house so she puts on some bondage gear she just happened to find. A little lipstick, too. Egad! This is not quite as good as "Re-Animator" but still plenty enjoyable, and fans of the Stuart Gordon of old will enjoy this if they haven't seen it in a while, or haven't EVER seen it. Lots of nasty icky gore & slimy other-dimensional creatures too. 8 out of 10.
Tommy Can You Feel Me In Your Penial Gland?
posted on 11 Dec 2006Tommy can you feel me in your penial gland? Stuart Gordon made yet another Lovecraft inspired horror movie, between "Re-Animator" and "Dagon" and here he really nails it.Two scientists create a machine that enlarges the penial gland(the supposed location of the third or "mind's eye" which Descartes called "the seat of the soul" and Bataille called "the blind spot of western rationality") and are able to glimpse into an alternate dimension, laying parallel to ours, full of glowing jellyfish creatures, slugs, giant worms, swarms of buzzing things, and eels floating the air, in a diffuse purple light and pink mist. As soon as the scientists see the creatures, the creatures can see them, and before any rational discussion can be made about the breakthrough, one of their heads is bitten off. Yes, the abyss also gazes, and is hungry for brains! Jeffery Combs has to re-create the night for the police, turning on the machine yet again, to find that the headless Dr., he was assisting, has re-constituted himself on the other side into a "new body". A sadomasochist in life, he's now a shape-shifting and extra-dimensional psychic, consumed with showing the world the other side of life, and extending his new pleasures to everyone he can get a tentacle around. The machine causes a mix of euphoria, terror, and sexual arousal, in those who stand within its field, which begins to overwhelm the resolve and sanity of the group to keep it turned off. "For some people 5 senses just isn't enough, I guess?", Comb's notes casually, as Barbara Crampton (another Gordon regular, isn't it nice when casts stay together?), slips into hypnosis and then into a leather bondage outfit, unable to disentangle the Dr's. Faustian desires from her own.The special effects are awesome the slimy 80's creature shop in full effect, more for monsters though than a human body count. Though it does rack one of those up too, this is a very, very gory film. The missing link between Lovecraft and the films of John Carpenter like "The Thing"and those of David Cronenberg, like every-thing( this film owes as much to him as HP rightly, and is the conceptual bridge that allows us to see where one ended and the other left off).The whirlwind pace of the film is all Gordon's own though, recalling the best and silliest moments of "Re-Animator", but with strange modulating fleshy monsters who never stay in one form too long. Combs puts on a noteworthy performance, with a quiet and odd intensity few actors in b-horror can manage, but which he is magnetically drawn. He looks so genuinely sad when he's finds himself eating organs in the hospital, it's an oddly emotional scene(for a few seconds anyway) another actor might not have pulled off. The final fight between the two Dr.'s from within the same body mass, also nods to "Tetsuo: Iron Man" and the living Blob in "Akira", soon to come.Like "Dead Alive" and "NightBreed" this has become one of my favorite 80's horror and films in general. It's "The Thing" with all of the suspense and paranoia gutted, while their entrails slither away into a corner screeching. "Altered States" if the monkey version of William Hurt had climbed the empire state building, after declaring himself a newly enlightened God. It's a film that's so excessive, propulsive, and freakishly explosive it demands attention, beyond the level of mere story, and holds it at level of macabre and slime streaked craft. I watched this again after I finished it (this was my first time, and the directors cut seems the way to go. Gordon had to make many a cut to get it down to an R for theaters). They don't make em like this no more.
Dr. Crawford Tillinghast will become a being that has never existed before now.
posted on 29 Nov 2006This movie, adapted from a dark and mystery filled tale by H. P. Lovecraft, is a supernatural thriller with more chops than many of the horror movies of the 80's. While the film is dated at times by costumes and technology, the intensity of the story and the characters involved surpasses even today's popular standards. Jeffrey Combs portrays a doctor's assistant who has witnessed a horror so terrifying that he questions his own sanity. A machine that stimulates second sight or "the sixth sense" is tested in an attic laboratory with nightmarish results. What follows is an investigation involving Combs' Crawford Tillinghast, a psychiatrist, a detective and the horror FROM BEYOND. Questions surface that will frighten and shock the average audience. What really happened to Dr. Edward Pretorius? What is the Resonator and what are its effects on the human brain? What is It?This is a very fun film for open minded fans of the horror genre. I enjoyed the cast's performances on screen. The story is full of horror, sex, and gore. Since the film is from the mid 80's the effects pale to current standards but, the message and intent of the movie are clear and each scene delivers its own charm. Some parts are shocking and others are laughable. This movie has ups and downs and is a fantastic roller coaster ride for the senses.This movie is highly recommended for fans of H. P. Lovecraft, Stuart Gordon, Sam Raimi, John Carpenter and admirers of Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, and Ken Foree.
Bizarre, one of a kind, sci-fi/horror with plenty of outrageous humour and imagination.
posted on 11 Jul 2006Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffery Combs) is a assistant for the brilliant but sadistic scientist Dr. Edward Pretorius (Ted Sorel). But Crawford got arrested for disturbance and the murder of Pretorius. Since Pretorius' head disappear from the murder scene. Crawford is been placed in a mental institution and he claims that he didn't murder the scientist. When an mysterious young psychologist Dr. Katherine McMichaels (Barbara Crampton) believes that Crawford didn't kill Pretorius. In fact, Crawford and Pretorius were working on the Resonator. Which it's a powerful machine that could control the sixth sense! When it finally works, the experiment turns bad and Crawford claims that Pretorius' head got eaten by a creature from the another dimension. Now Katherine forces Crawford to back in the house, where the experiment went wrong. Which he has no choice to prove his innocence to Katherine. But they are not alone, along with them is a guard Bubba (Ken Foree). Which this guy has to keep an eye on Katherine and especially Crawford. Katherine wants Crawford to re-start the experiment to prove his innocence. Now they open the door of a hostile parallel universe and where the monsters from the another dimension are coming to earth. While Pretorius got re-born into a sexual deviant monster. Crawford, Katherine and Bubba are feeling that they are changing as well but not for the better.Directed by Stuart Gordon (Edmond, Fortress, King of the Ants) made an very amusing Sci-Fi/Horror film with arresting black comedy. Combs and Crampton reunited after the cult success of "Re-Animator". But this time, their roles is the exact opposite. This movie has plenty of imaginative special effects and make-up designs, which they are impressive. It's still look good after over 20 years ago. Combs, Crampton, Foree and Sorel seems to be having an great time in this picture. Their performances are extremely good, especially what Combs and Sorel had to do with that creative heavy make-up effects. The movie has an few memorable set-pieces, especially scenes with Crampton in a S&M outfit is one of the standouts. This film was sadly an box office disappointment but went on to be an cult favorite for all these years and it is finally released to DVD. But this time, it's the Unrated Director's Cut.DVD has an sharp anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) transfer and an good Dolby Digital 4.0 Surround Sound. DVD has an interesting funny audio commentary track by Director:Gordon, Producer:Brian Yunza (Bride of Re-Animator, Beyond Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead 3), actors:Combs and Crampton. DVD also includes three featurettes, photo montage and storyboard to film comparisons with introduction by the director. "From Beyond" has its share of campy moments, story holes and a few moments of pure cheese but overall it's surprisingly effective after all these years. The film is extremely well shot by cinematographer:Mac Ahlberg (House, Innocent Blood, Oscar) and B-Movie Music Composer:Richard Band delivers his best score here, which it does makes up for its flaws. This picture was cut down from the MPAA back in 1986. Which Gordon was forced to remove Key Sequences to get an R-Rating. Gordon's previous film "Re-Animator" was released unrated and that film was much more independent than this one. Gordon thought the footage of "From Beyond" is lost forever until trims were found from the work-print. The film got digitally remastered and work-print footage that cleaned-up that by a computer to match the look of the film. Now the key footage of the movie is back in place of what originally Gordon intended to be. "From Beyond" is loosely based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Which the movie is based on a short story. Still "From Beyond" is one of the better looking sci-fi/horror films of the 1980's. The screenplay by Dennis Paoli (Body Snatchers, The Dentist, The Pit and the Pendulum) is intelligent, funny, wild and always delightful in a bizarre sense. Do not miss this film and this is also one of the best works of Gordon's pictures. Adapated by the producer:Yunza, Paoli and director:Gordon. (****/*****).
Good gory fun
posted on 08 Jun 2006***MINOR SPOILERS*** I rented this back in the eighties and the tape was wrecked so I didn't get to see it. I had to wait till it was on HBO to see it. I loved it, and am still waiting for it on DVD. I hate to sound like those annoying Blockbuster video axioms...but if you liked "Re-Animator", you'll love "From Beyond". It has monsters, it has Barbara Crampton, it has perversion, it has memorable characters. The story (based on H.P. Lovecraft I believe) centers around a scientist's experiments in re-awakening the sixth sense by stimulating the pineal gland. Basically all he succeeds in doing is creating an invention that summons monsters from another dimension and makes all the human characters really horny. Yeah, it's as great as it sounds. Director Stuart Gordon really hasn't done anything this interesting since, which is a shame, since he is at least as talented in over-the-top mayhem as Peter Jackson. Barbara Crampton is beautiful and talented, she is really an undiscovered gem, someone should use her in a big budget movie. Jeffrey Combs has some of the best lines, as usual. The make up and monster effects are similar to the 1982 remake of "The Thing", but the tone is wildly over the top.
An Excellent Science Fiction horror comedy!
posted on 05 Jun 2006Dr. Edward Pretouris (Ted Sorel) and his assistant Crawford (Jeffery Combs) have created a special scientific device called "The Resenator" which can stimulate the pineal gland, it seems to have one problem as it releases bizarre creatures from another dimension. They murdered the doctor with Crawford being blamed for the crime, a gorgeous psychiatrist named Dr. Katherine Mcmichaels (Barbara Crampton) helps out with Crawford to investigate the truth about the story with the help of friendly assistant Bubba (Ken Foree) to the house. Unfortunately they open up a door to another dimension where Dr. Pretouris isn't dead but has been transformed into a monster that feeds on flesh and brains.Terrific and underrated Sci-fi horror comedy from Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna, the team who brought you the brilliant "Re-Animator" and is based on a H.P. Lovecraft story. This is a smart and slimy special effects extravaganza that has gained a cult following over the years due to it's dark humor and gruesome splatter effects with intelligent storyline. There's gruesome moments like the eyeball-eating moment which you can see for the first time in it's detailed version on the director's cut DVD and sexy moments like Crampton in a S&M outfit, it's definitely one wild movie that should be seen by fans of Lovecraft, sci-fi, horror, Cronenberg and even special effects junkies.Also recommended: "Re-Animator", "The Thing (1982)", "Akira", "Grindhouse", "In The Mouth of Madness", "The Curse (1987)", "Lifeforce", "Event Horizon", "Phantasm Series", "Hellboy 1 & 2", "Dagon", "Bride of Re-Animator", "Cloverfield", "Faust: Love of the Damned", "Heavy Metal", "The Deadly Spawn (a.k.a. Return of the Aliens)", "Return of the Living Dead 3", "The Toxic Avenger", "Class of Nuke'Em High", "Basket Case", "C.H.U.D.", "Street Trash", "Videodrome", "The Mist", "Tetsuo The Iron Man", "Evilspeak", "Ghostbusters 1 & 2", "Slither", "Species", "The X-Files 1 & 2", "The Stuff", "Scanners", "The Brood", "The Fly (1986)", "Feast", "Waxwork","From Dusk Till Dawn", "Resident Evil Trilogy", "They Live", "Parasite (1982)", "The Fly II", "Predator 1 & 2", "Frankenhooker", "Brain Damage", "Mimic", "Basket Case", "Xtro", "Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1957 and 1978)", "Society", "Alien Series", "AVP: Alien Vs. Predator 1 & 2", "Warning Sign", "Halloween III: Season of the Witch", "Night of the Creeps" and "Pitch Black".
made a b-movie fan outta me
posted on 24 May 2006before watching this i wasn't too big on low-budget horror but when i saw it I WAS AMAZED, THIS FLICK COULD MAKE A B-MOVIE FAN OUT OF ALMOST ANYBODY.after viewing this names like charles band, stuart gordon, barbara crampton (the woman who had her breast licked by a severed head in Re-animator), and lets not forget good old jeffrey combs
* * * out of 4
posted on 24 Apr 2006Dr. Pretorius and his colleagues are working on a sensational experiment: by means of stimulation of the pineal gland, they want to open the human mind to higher dimensions. When the experiment succeeds, however, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms, which apparently are floating around us all the time. When Dr. Pretorius is killed by one of them, Dr. Tillinghast is under suspect and thrown into the psycho ward due to his stories. Only the ambitious psychologist Dr. McMichaels believes him and wants to continue the experiment.Wicked adaption of the H.P. Lovecraft story written and directed by horror master Stuart Gordon. Terrific special effects, a fast pace and a nasty sense of humor make this a memorable outing. Good camp cast too.Rated R for Nudity, Graphic Violence and Profanity.
nice try...
posted on 17 May 2009"From Beyond" has the unfortunate task of following up one of the most vivid, effective, and hilarious horror films ever made–"Re-Animator"–and comes up short in almost every area. Once again, director Stuart Gordon is adapting an H.P. Lovecraft tale, this one about two scientists who create a device that stimulates a "sixth sense" and allows slimy creatures from another dimension to seep through. Stars Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, and Ken Foree ("Dawn of the Dead") do their best, but the script is too limited, and neither the humor nor horror is as strong as in "Re-Animator." Still, this is incomparably better than most of the dreck lining video shelves these days.