- Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Foree, Ted Sorel, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon
- Directors: Stuart Gordon
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
- DVD Release Date: 11 Sep 2007
- Run Time: 85 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000RPCK2O
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 30,295 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Forgotten Lovecraft classic!,
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This review is from: From Beyond [VHS] [1986] (VHS Tape)
There were some fantastic 'b' movies made in the 1980's.Thankfully, a few of them have received dvd transfers...unfortunately, this one (aside from a rare Japanese release) hasn't...yet! The partnership behind 'Re-animator', Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna AND the stars including Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton re-united for this classic of modern horror based on an H.P. Lovecraft story. Ken Foree of the original 'Dawn of the dead' and the late, great Ted Sorel also star in this twisted tale of a mad scientist who discovers a sixth sense and an alternate world through his invention of a machine, created for those very purposes! Unfortunately, his discovery is not without side effects...for him or for those trying to stop him from playing god. Some great special effects and make-up alongside an underated cast make this a dvd must-have...all we need now is a dvd must-release!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
What Lurks Beyond?...,
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This review is from: From Beyond [DVD] [1986] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
This a truly a hidden B-Movie style gem! Another H.P. Lovecraft story starring Jeffrey Combes (who is also in Re-Animator, another Horror delight written by H.P. Lovecraft) which makes with the Horror and Gore pretty much from the get-go!
When an experiment goes horribly right (yes, right) after a new Invention called the Resonator is powered-up, shocking "its" from "the other side" are released and the Inventor, Dr Pretorious meets a rather grizzly end, leaving his somewhat horrified Assistant Dr Crawford (Combes) in a Mental Instution rambling about what attacked him on that fateful night when Dr Pretorious lost his head over the Invention (literally!) It's also attacking Crawfords brain like a Tumor, so his newly-assigned Psychiatrist and her Bodyguard/Cop Friend are sent to see this Invention in action at the House of the late Pretorious, despite repeat warnings from Crawford that he is going to destroy the Machine the first opportunity he gets. After seeing the Resonator live the Psychiatrist believes she has witnessed a positive breakthrough for Mental Health, and potentially a cure for schitzophrenia, but the Monsters from beyond and the Resonator have other ideas. Will anyone get out sane? I really enjoy this Movie because it's extremely original, I truly haven't seen anything else like it at this point, so for me it makes it a pretty stand-alone Horror. It's been really well directed and stays interesting and scary all the way through! Prepare yourself, you never know what's waiting to be found...!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Just about,
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This review is from: From Beyond [DVD] [1986] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Having seen the gross teen porno Reanimator but being a Lovecraft fan as a reader I thought I would try this one,too-Hmmm...Still gross with the addition of an unlikely semi-hero, given Lovecrafts ethnic philosophy as the swarthy victim eaten alive by ethereal bugs,this is still fun for those with a taste for such fun although it was spun from a short tale or smidgen as the director admits...I doubt Lovecraft wrote any trendy S+M into his tale either but he is dead and directors are alive and have audiences to please who would rather party than read,I would guess,so it's a bit eighties Drive-In,but fine if that's your mood-As to the style of the film,garish,gaudy,weirdy,and features some wacky machinery and somewhat creaky eighties animatronic effects,what else? But CGI is still not everything and Stop-Frame,too,has its own weird charm,just as nostalgia and Lovecraft do...The two main players are outstanding and almost make this rather ludicrous screenplay plausible-Let's say your unbelief is suspendable and the berserk ending is,well,A berserk eighties extravaganza of bloody,explosive mayhem with a somewhat surprising gloomy ending and as for extras,they are very,very good and a very worthy addition to the overall package ...Lovecrafty rather than Lovecraft but then he was after all,a New England writer,so if anyone should twist him,It would be Amerikas Jan Kees...Fun on several counts and levels and a relative bargain.
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