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From Beyond (1986) dir. by Stuart Gordon  

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From Beyond (1986)

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From Beyond (1986)

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Shoutout to the actors who do such an amazing job of playing extremely hateable villains that make it easy to despise the character, as much as I like some villains like many people, I think it's fantastic when an actor can make you do the opposite, and play such unlikable characters as people.

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From Beyond - Stuart Gordon 1986

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From Beyond (1986)

From Beyond is a backup/substitute movie. In tone, it’s similar to Re-Animator. The nauseating special effects will remind you of The Thing. The mix of bizarre eroticism and horror is akin to that of Hellraiser. There are many others you can compare it to but you get the idea. The thing is, you would never recommend this 1986 film by Stuart Gordon over any of those but if you’ve seen them so many times you’ve memorized all the best parts and you want something like them but not them, this is the movie for you.

Dr. Edward Pretorious (Ted Sorel) has developed the Resonator, a machine that allows humans to see the unseen creatures that live inside our space but outside of our realm. Unfortunately, the machine also allows them to see us. Pretorious is attacked and killed by a creature from this realm and his assistant, Dr. Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) is accused of his murder. His claims of invisible monsters make everyone think he’s crazy, except for Dr. Katherine McMichaels (Barbara Crampton) isn’t so sure.

The best thing about “From Beyond” is that it knows exactly what sort of movie it is. Writer/director Stuart Gordon (who wrote the screenplay with Brian Yuzna and Dennis Paoli) has no delusions about who is watching and what they want to see. He knows this isn’t some deep tale about the human condition. This is a sleazy, campy horror comedy. It grosses you out. It loses its mind. It doesn’t quite hold up logistically. None of that matters. There’s a lot of gore, plenty of nudity and kink, tasteless depictions of mental health, outlandish characters, and it’s all the better for it. Science runs amok, Eyeballs get sucked out of people’s heads, brains enlarge until they crack through skulls, and you get all sorts of phallic and uncomfortable-looking beasts sliming all over Barbara Crampton. From Beyond knows that you could probably tell this story with a straight face but that it would be all too easy to try, fail, and become the subject of ridicule. Instead, it beats the audience to the punch by making fun of itself - which is not the same as attempting to make a movie that’s “so bad it’s good” on purpose.

The most memorable aspect of this film are the terrific special effects. The primary monster goes through all sorts of transformations/shapes and it’s made extra discomfiting by this running theme of a quasi-masochistic obsession that develops in anyone exposed to the Resonator. It’s funny, and a bit unsettling too despite never being adequately explored. It feels like there’s a scene with Pretorious missing, the one extra point needed to make this more than a weird addition. There's the beginning of an idea present. What kind of horror might emerge from someone who can only get it up by inflicting pain, or from an overly stimulated part of the brain that draws us to danger even though logic says we should stay away?

The performances aren’t bad, but they’re not great either. It would’ve been nice if they were just the teensiest bit better. The story would’ve benefited either from holding onto its mystery for longer or finding a way to avoid the machine being turned on and off over and over. I don’t know if we necessarily need a remake, however. As-is, From Beyond looks great and you just know a new adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story just wouldn’t be the same in terms of tone or humor. What we need are other movies influenced by this one, or that push some aspects of it a little further. Thankfully, there are plenty.

It’s difficult to imagine someone calling From Beyond their favorite movie. Not because of the uncomfortable horror elements (I’m pretty sure one of the genre’s objectives is to make you uneasy). Because it doesn't do anything better than everybody else. This doesn’t mean it’s bad. It means this is a film that’s comfortable with holding onto its silver medal. There’s nothing wrong with that. One thing’s for sure; it’s memorable and has a certain undiscernable quality that’ll get you coming back to it. (March 4, 2022)

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From Beyond (1986)

Dir. Stuart Gordon

Obsessive scientist Dr. Pretorius (Ted Sorel) successfully discovers a way to access a parallel universe of pleasure by tapping into the brain's pineal gland. When he is seemingly killed by forces from this other dimension, his assistant, Dr. Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs), is accused of the murder. After psychiatrist Katherine McMichaels (Barbara Crampton) and detective Bubba Brownlee (Ken Foree) take the case, the trio risks a return to the other world in order to solve the mystery.

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Thirty One Days Of Horror Movies! Day Twenty Eight :D

From Beyond!

When a young scientist is arrested for the murder of the eccentric and sinister professor he worked with, it soon becomes clear that the truth about what happened to him is both stranger and deadlier than anyone could imagine...as the deceased scientist turns out to be very much alive and his diabolical experiments have both transformed him and opened a door to allow things both bizarre and lethal into our world....FROM BEYOND

One of the four HP Lovecraft adaptations that Stuart Gordon worked on and the second to star the wonderful horror industry legends that are Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton who would regularly work together on Gordon's Lovecraft films (Though sadly could not appear in his final adaptation, Dagon), From Beyond is a wonderful little sci fi body horror gem from the eighties

The effects work is still every bit as outlandish and grotesque as it was when the film first came out and the cast all turn in quality performances especially Ted Sorel as the villainous Dr Pretorius and Combs as his shaken former assistant

The plot is enjoyably bonkers much like Re-Animators was and this is a hella fun bit of cult classic eighties horror to enjoy this Halloween month :D

Plus it's got Barbara Crampton in dominatrix gear I mean that alone makes it at least worth a casual look ;D

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From Beyond (1986)

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From Beyond (1986)

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From Beyond will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on February 28 via Vinegar Syndrome. Based on the H.P. Lovecraft short story, the 1986 sci-fi horror film features new cover art by The Dude Designs.

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) directs from a script he co-wrote with Dennis Paoli (Re-Animator) and Brian Yuzna (Bride of Re-Animator). Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Foree, Ted Sorel, and Carolyn Purdy-Gordon star.

From Beyond has been newly restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative with HDR. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by director Stuart Gordon and the cast

Audio commentary by writer Dennis Paoli

Re-Resonator: Looking Back at From Beyond - 97-minute documentary with actors Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton and Ken Foree, writer Dennis Paoli, producer Brian Yuzna, editor Lee Percy, composer Richard Band, foley artist Vanessa Ament, effects supervisors Michael Deak and Anthony Doublin, and effects artists William Butler, Gabriel Bartalos, John Naulin, and Robert Kurtzman (new)

Interview with director Stuart Gordon (2007)

Interview with director Stuart Gordon (2012)

Interview with actor Jeffrey Combs (2013)

Interview with actress Barbara Crampton (2012)

Interview with actress Barbara Crampton (2013)

Interview with writer Dennis Paoli (2012)

Interview with composer Richard Band (2007)

Interview with executive producer Charles Band (2013)

Multiple Dimensions: The Creatures & Effects of From Beyond (2013)

Monsters & Slime: The FX of From Beyond (2012)

Storyboard-to-film comparisons with director Stuart Gordon

Trailer

Still gallery

Dr. Edward Pretorius, an acclaimed physicist, has perfected his newest invention: the Resonator, a machine which allows those near to it to glimpse life not visible to the naked eye. Imagining the discoveries he could make, Pretorius begins to go mad, much to the concern of his young assistant, Crawford Tillinghast. However, after the machine malfunctions during a highly sensitive experiment and Pretorius is found brutally murdered, Crawford is fingered as the primary suspect. Crawford, now confined to an asylum, becomes the ward of Dr. Katherine McMichaels, who takes a special interest in his tales of the strange creatures able to be seen while the machine is operating and convinces him to help her rebuild the device, woefully unaware of the terrifying, hidden world she is about to enter...

Pre-order From Beyond.

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Civerous — Maze Envy (20 Buck Spin)

Photo by Juliet Guzman

Civerous is one of those death metal band names that seems as if it should actually be a word in the OED, likely something along these lines: “Civerous, adj. Of or in the manner of a predatory quadruped with enormous incisors and canine teeth; voracious; possessing an outsized appetite averse to regulation or restraint.” Unbound from the specifics of an actual definition, it’s a lot of fun to imagine those sorts of usages, beasts and other linguistic contexts for the word. It’s decidedly less fun to listen to Maze Envy, Civerous’s first LP for the prolific death metal label 20 Buck Spin, but fun is not among the priorities motivating music this heavy and intense. It bites.

The band seems to be characterizing that intensity with the inventive subgenre tag “caustic death/doom,” and this reviewer can stipulate to the caustic properties of the guitar tone that dominates Maze Envy’s heaviest passages — it’s tasty. But we should note that guitarist Daniel Salinas and vocalist Issaiah Vaca also play in heady post-black metal band Aylwin, and there are aspects of Civerous’s sound that create textures notably removed from the gruesome down-tuned disgust of death/doom. See the George Crumb-like glissando strings that shimmer and keen through “The Azure Eye,” or the guttering glow of the clean plucking in “Endless Symmetry.” Those two tracks function as introductory passages to longer, more dour and (yep) caustic songs, “Shrouded in Crystals” and “Labyrinth Charm,” respectively. But the intro tunes frame the longer compositions with what feel like arch ambitions. Are those gestures post-, or are they proggy?

Some listeners (hello) do not respond productively to the conjunction of “prog” and “death metal” — and to be clear, it’s not Civerous invoking the problematic p-word. There’s a pummeling toughness in Maze Envy’s heaviest minutes (see the opening of the title track, or the closing three minutes of “Shrouded in Crystals”) that’s akin to the growling, blatting, thunderous approach of a biker gang. Those passages ground the record in doom metal’s traditional grit, a gravid muscularity that struts and glowers. The results are more than adequate to banish the preening peacocking endemic in prog’s valorizations of technical mastery.

But still, Civerous makes an idiosyncratic variety of death/doom. It often feels like high-brow stuff (a decidedly proggy attribute), as interested in ornament as it is in ponderous power. The closest this reviewer can come to making sense of the combination of sensibilities is to compare the music to some transcendent visual moments in From Beyond (1986), Stuart Gordon’s hilariously esoteric sleazefest: see the spectacular death of Bubba Brownlee (Ken Foree), or the initial glimpse of the mutated Dr Pretorius (Ted Sorel). Those shots are as gloriously hyperreal as they are confessedly fabricated with cheap foam latex and syrupy fake blood; they are comic and horrific, vertiginous and goofball. At its best, Maze Envy produces a similar collision of ill-fitting but effective aesthetic elements: a strange sort of good taste, and lots of ripping teeth.

Jonathan Shaw

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 7 / 10

Título Original: Network

Año:  1976

Duración: 121 min

País:  Estados Unidos  

Dirección: Sidney Lumet

Guion: Paddy Chayefsky

Música: Elliot Lawrence  

Fotografía: Owen Roizman

Reparto: Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert Duvall, Beatrice Straight, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, Arthur Burghardt, Bill Burrows, John Carpenter, Jordan Charney, Kathy Cronkite, Ed Crowley, Jerome Dempsey, Conchata Ferrell, Gene Gross, Stanley Grover, Cindy Grover, Darryl Hickman, Mitchell Jason, Paul Jenkins, Ken Kercheval, Kenneth Kimmins, Lynn Klugman, Carolyn Krigbaum, Zane Lasky, Michael Lipton, Michael Lombard, Pirie MacDonald, Russ Petranto, Bernard Pollock, Roy Poole, William Prince, Sasha von Scherler, Lane Smith, Ted Sorel, Fred Stuthman, Cameron Thomas, Marlene Warfield, Lydia Wilen, Lee Richardson ,Lance Henriksen

Productora: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), United Artists

Género: Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/

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