From Beyond
From Beyond is a 1986 film from the USA and Italy, directed by Stuart Gordon, running 85 minutes. reelscum files it under splatter and body horror.
- Year
- 1986 · 1980s films
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Director
- Stuart Gordon
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (24/100)
- Also known as
- H.P. Lovecraft's From Beyond · Resonator
Defined in the glossary: Splatter, Body horror
Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs do Lovecraft again. A machine that lets you see what should stay unseen.
Stuart Gordon's follow-up to Re-Animator, reuniting Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton for another Lovecraft adaptation. A resonance machine stimulates the pineal gland and lets its users perceive, and be perceived by, monstrous creatures occupying the same space we do. Perception becomes appetite becomes transformation.
It is gooier and more sexual than Re-Animator, drenched in pink and purple slime, and Combs is again perfect as a scientist coming apart. A high point of 80s practical-effects horror.
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