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I love this movie, especially Jeffery Combs. He is definently one of my favorite horror actors. This movie had a plentiful mix of quirky 80's humor, crazy creatures from the beyond, and good old fashioned brain sucking! Absolutley loved it!
Freaking sweet movie. Too bad the crew didn't really go on to do more movies together.
Cool creature effects, plus you get to see Barbara Crampton's boobs. Wait... what movie do you NOT see her boobs in?
Anywho, Jeffrey Combs puts on one hell of a performance. How this guy didn't become an A lister is beyond me. Check out his monologue when he's in the padded cell.
Posted By: gorehound62 at 6:18pm, November 18, 2008
what a cool movie!! it wont makes sense to you, but who cares. another fantastic entry in stuart gordons hp lovecraft films. jeffrey combs, as always, is great. ken foree is good in a small role. pretty good effects.
Awesome movie. I love how there were so many weird creatures and I loved the plot and story to this. The best H.P. Lovecraft movie out I think well this and Dagon.
This is from the same people (and cast, basically) who gave us the phenomenal Re-Animator. While it's not as good a film, it has some sweet creature and disgusting creature work, and a great plot adapted from Lovecraft's short story, 'From Beyond.' I highly recommend it to anyone who even remotely liked Re-Animator and its sequels.
Easily a classic Lovecraft/Gordon/Yuzna film that ranks up there with the original Re-animator. I wish I could say that about almost every other Lovecraft film. It's more than a bit dated now, just as Re-animator is, but definitely one of my favorite Jeffrey Combs performances.
"Ate him... bit off his head like... a gingerbread man!!!"--
Remember back in the days of the 80s, a time when the only way to battle transdimensional monsters was with glasses like concrete slabs, nostrils the size of the Grand Canyon and a roll neck grey jumper? H.P. Lovecraft's From Beyond has all this and more, as a slice of watchable schlock horror garbage schlops onto the screen with all the panache and finesse of a stillborn calf. That said; this camp nonsense still has a better script and dialogue than 70% of movies out there, which is a telling indictment on modern cinema. As a film, it's junk, no doubt about that, but while it may end with a Freddy-lite alien hybrid laughing manically, the notion of such a film giving vague lip service to schizophrenic research and pineal glands is applaudable in its own small way.
Ken Foree enters the screen as the one possible saving grace, but when he's playing "Bubba", an all-laughing, all wise-cracking, all-eating stereotype, there's really little left to say. Naturally, being a black man getting in the way of tryst between a white couple, he's the first to get wiped in this horror tale. Star of the show is clearly Jeffrey Combs, looking for all the world like the illegitimate offspring of Antony Perkins and Bruce Campbell, chopping things with relish and devouring lines like the title quote whole.
Silver-haired octogenarians bare their buttocks while showing off grey chest rugs, and shoulder pads get hit by layers of lacquered, ten-foot thick hair. It's an odd, knowing film, producing its moments of camp self-reflexiveness with enough restraint not to distract. An unusual in-joke is a comedy fat neighbour calling after her dog, "Bunny"... which is the actress's own real-life name. Special effects (at least until the last ten minutes) actually hold up surprisingly well, much more so than the sound editing (how many times did Barbara Crampton have to redub her lines anyway?) and the impossible to believe incidental music by Jack Smalley/Christopher Stone.
Watched with hindsight, From Beyond is far less gory than it seemed at the time, Stuart Gordon having a decent hand on the direction and operating on a "leave it to the imagination" principle. Sadly, while it would be easy to enjoy From Beyond as throwaway horror from another time, what taints it is a deeply unpleasant scene where Crampton's character is molested by the creature that is the centrepiece of the story, her breasts exposed to the camera and forcibly groped, the creature growing extra-long fingers and moving its hand below camera with the implication that she's being penetratively fondled. 80s movies always were a nadir of morality in the horror genre, and its unfortunate that with implied rape being served up as titillation, From Beyond abandons all right to any kind of retrospective critical charity.
