From Beyond

    From Beyond
    1986

    Synopsis

    The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a beautiful psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel universe.

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    Cast

    • Jeffrey CombsCrawford Tillinghast
    • Barbara CramptonDr. Katherine McMichaels
    • Ken ForeeBuford 'Bubba' Brownlee
    • Ted SorelDr. Edward Pretorius
    • Carolyn Purdy-GordonDr. Roberta Bloch
    • Bunny SummersNeighbor Lady
    • Bruce McGuireJordan Fields
    • Del RusselAmbulance Driver
    • Dale WyattParamedic
    • Andrew Lord MillerPatient - Strait Jacket

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Los Angeles Times

      Re-Animator is a hard act to follow, but Gordon only falls a notch short here, creating some genuinely gruesome thrills as well as an unsettling current of sexual hysteria.
    • 75

      Slant Magazine

      The functional plot and Gordon’s non-flashy directorial style aren’t what make From Beyond such a memorable cult item; as with Re-Animator, it’s more the audacity of staging elaborate sequences that mix up steamy sexual proclivities and monster madness.
    • 75

      TV Guide Magazine

      Although perhaps not as mind-blowing in its uniqueness as RE-ANIMATOR, this is definitely one of the best horror films of the 1980s.
    • 75

      Chicago Tribune

      In its brash, enthusiastic tackiness, From Beyond is a show that would do any carnival proud. [27 Oct 1986, p.5C]
    • 75

      Chicago Tribune

      We could do without the film's leather sex scenes, but otherwise From Beyond is a decent enough low- budget horror film that delivers what audiences have every reason to expect--a funny, horrific grossout. [24 Oct 1986, p.A]
    • 70

      Newsweek

      Gordon's back at it in From Beyond, which puts the audience in the same pickle: do I laugh or do I scream? Both. [17 Nov 1986, p.89]
    • 63

      Chicago Sun-Times

      The movie is the latest horror show from Stuart Gordon, whose Re-Animator was one of the great trash pictures of 1985. From Beyond doesn't quite measure up - it's not trashy enough and it doesn't have the insane tunnel vision of the first movie - but in its own way, this is quite a job.
    • 50

      The New York Times

      The symbolism here is dream-book basic.

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