Horror legends Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna team up with horror icons Jeffrey Combs, Ken Foree and Barbara Crampton to mold HP Lovecraft into kinky body horror.

Chills/Thrills: Gordon's Lovecraft adaptations are really more gonzo comedies to me, so this one is funnier than it is scary.

Gore/Ownage: 10/10, possibly some of the coolest gore, body horror effects of all time. Brian Yuzna knows how to make everything look wet as hell, and we love it. The shit where Combs' pineal gland bursts out of his head like an angler fish lure and he starts sucking out people's brains through their eyes is everything a horror movie should aspire to be.

Horniness: 10/10, one of the horniest movies of all…

From Beyond is one of my all time favorite horror movies from the 80's and its overshadowed by one of the all time great horror movies of the 80's... one could argue for days which one is better yadda yadda... but for me, both films are priceless diamonds in Stuart Gordon's Lovecraft crown.

A lurid, neon drenched carnival of cosmic scifi horror... complete with Combs, Crampton, Foree, pineal gland lore, delicious slime covered effects and post-The Thing body horror, and a sexual deviant gloop monster slathered in cosmic hued lighting. I go more into my obsession with Lovecraft stories in my recent Color Out of Space review so I won't bore you with the details, but I love this movie.…

From Beyond, director Stuart Gordon's direct follow-up to the cult classic known as Re-Animator of which I absolutely enjoyed, is one brilliant sci-fi body horror film that once more takes elaborate care of its source material that it is loosely based upon, and efficiently creates a relatively fascinating and gruesome genre outing that is sure to delight those who enter this Lovecraftian nightmare.

Filled to the brim with gooey pink and purple practical FX that are just all around plain nightmare fuel from head to toe, From Beyond skillfully utilizes these masterful effects to its grisly premise which centers on a set of scientists trying to stimulate the pineal gland with a device called the Resonator, and needless to say,…

“He’s trying to start the resonator... FROM BEYOND!” 

Neon lights, goop, madhouse science craziness, pineal glands, and a grotesque shape changing sexual deviant monster.

Based off the H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name and released a year after Re-Animator, From Beyond is often overshadowed by The tale of Herbert West and honestly, at least in my eyes, it shouldn’t be. From Beyond is the shadow to Re-Animator, every bit as goopy, gooey, and intense while leaving the comedy aspects at the check in desk (although tbh I don’t find Re-Animator funny as most others seem to, I’m more disturbed by it than anything).

Jeffrey Combs once again owns the screen with his performance, but he’s not alone, Barbara Crampton…

"It ate him....Bit off his head like a gingerbread man."

Slightly batshit sci-fi horror of the Lovecraftian variety filled with silly dialogue, inventive body horror, tons of neon lighting and crudely rendered flying space eels.

From Beyond encapsulates so much of what I love about 80s horror; experimental practical effects, mad science, a dynamic soundtrack, a moody atmos and, of course, questionable acting. After meddling around with a new contraption, scientists gain the ability to see beyond perceptible reality, unwittingly unleashing freaky creatures from another dimension. As to be expected, the body horror elements are wonderfully kooky (killer alien antennae!), occasionally gnarly and lend themselves well to the hits of satire throughout. The film's mostly shot in a single location…

Barbara Crampton has never been more beautiful.
Again, she gives herself body and soul to play a character quite sexualized and going through a huge range of emotions: pride, empathy, fear, excitement, desperation and, finally, madness, the expected end for all Lovecraftian protagonists who didn't succumb during the film.
The final scene isn't original, but is very well executed by Barbara.

She is accompanied again by another giant when it comes to adaptations of works by H. P. Lovecraft: Jeffrey Combs. The two worked together under the direction of Stuart Gordon, in the classic "Re-Animator" (before this film) and then in "Castle Freak", both adaptations of Lovecraft's tales. Combs even played H. P. Lovecraft himself in the movie "Necronomicon" in…

I caught this on cable last night and as soon as I finished it I got up, grabbed my keys and went out to go buy the Blu Ray/DVD from Scream Factory because I immediately needed to watch it again with the commentary track.

I loved Re-Animator so obviously I knew I'd really like this one too but I didn't expect to like it this much.

We get a completely different Jeffrey Combs in this movie. This time he's the victim. He's handsome. He's vulnerable. He wears a sweater.

Barbara Crampton plays a psychologist. According to the commentary track they thought she was too young to be this hot shot psychologist so they decided, "eh...give her big glasses." Genius.

Ken…

"You've seen all you need to see."

"There's always more to see."

Re-Animator arrived first and left a massive impression. It's very GREEN and Jeffrey Combs is very HOT. Jeffrey Combs Jeffrey Combsing the way only Jeffrey Combs can do. Career defining moments for like, everyone involved. In my early viewings of From Beyond, I saw it as a very worthy extension of it's older sibling. It's subtleties have revealed themselves to me more over the years. Re-Animator approaches science fiction with a direct uncomplicated pulp style. The power of it lies in the performances and the intelligent storytelling ability of Stuart Gordon. Being familiar with the overall theme is most important. The feeling that Lovecraft was able to convey.…

When researchers create a machine that stimulates the pineal gland to see another plane of reality, the discovery will turn their lab into a house of horrors for the team who tries to replicate the survivor’s findings.

A gruesome, go-for-broke horror flick with plenty of straightforward yet surreal scares! With Stuart Gordon directing and Jeffrey Combs starring as a mad scientist in a loose Lovecraft adaptation, it’s a Re-Animator re-do from top to bottom; here, though, the goopy mutant creature FX are cranked up to 11, with a quantity and quality that rivals contemporaries The Thing and The Fly. If your stomach isn’t turned by at least one scene in this, you’ve got an iron gut!

The plot is pretty…

This movie was so fucking stupid. All it has going for it is Jeffrey Combs and some cool effects, and even then 1/4 of the time the effects look like utter shit or are shot like shit. Oh and the neon pink lighting was cool. Everything else was mind bogglingly stupid. The script was abhorrent, the characters didn’t make any sense or have any kind of realistic motivations (or even any at all!). There’s a cool idea here and yeah sure some parts of the movie look cool but overall it is a disaster, I really don’t know how some people could enjoy this so much, and I’m a huge fan of body horror/cosmic horror. Even when things are going…