
Dr. Edward Pretorius and his assistant, the physician Crawford Tillinghast, have developed the Resonator, a machine to stimulate the sixth sense through the pineal gland. When Crawford activates the apparatus, he sees creatures flying in the air and he summons Dr. Pretorius. The experiment goes out of control and Dr. Pretorius refuses to turn off the Resonator. Meanwhile their neighbor calls the police, and when the police officers arrive, they see Crawford trying to escape f... (Full plot summary below)
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Dr. Edward Pretorius and his assistant, the physician Crawford Tillinghast, have developed the Resonator, a machine to stimulate the sixth sense through the pineal gland. When Crawford activates the apparatus, he sees creatures flying in the air and he summons Dr. Pretorius. The experiment goes out of control and Dr. Pretorius refuses to turn off the Resonator. Meanwhile their neighbor calls the police, and when the police officers arrive, they see Crawford trying to escape from his house and Dr. Pretorius beheaded. Crawford is sent to a mental institution under the supervision of the sadistic Dr. Bloch. However, the prominent psychiatrist Dr. Katherine McMichaels requests the custody of Crawford and Detective Bubba Brownlee that is investigating the case stays with them. Katherine goes with Crawford and Bubba to see the Resonator and turns the machine on. Dr. Pretorius returns in a mutant shape and attacks them, in the beginning of a gore night with weird life forms.
Leave your thoughts about From Beyond.
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonCrass, broad, irreverent, wacky fun - and absolutely hilarious from beginning to end. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertReviewing The Naked Gun... is like reporting on a monologue by Rodney Dangerfield - you can get the words but not the music. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanFrom Beyond is just as unnerving now as it was in 1986. A boldly ambitious work of cinematic terror. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrThe functional plot and Gordon’s non-flashy directorial style aren’t what make From Beyond such a memorable cult item; as with Re-Animator, it’s more the audacity of staging elaborate sequences that mix up steamy sexual proclivities and monster madness. |
| Los Angeles TimesPatrick GoldsteinRe-Animator is a hard act to follow, but Gordon only falls a notch short here, creating some genuinely gruesome thrills as well as an unsettling current of sexual hysteria. |
| FEARnetScott WeinbergI'm not saying it's on the same level as Re-Animator, but From Beyond still ranks pretty damn high on Stuart Gordon's filmography. |
| Apollo GuideBrian WebsterHas little to offer other than laughs at its campiness, and a reminder of how low budget filmmaking by those with higher aspirations looked, back in the day. |
| Slant MagazineJeremiah KippFaithful to that netherworld of Lovecraft's fiction where otherworldly monsters lurk just under the fabric of our reality. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenThe movie is the latest horror show from Stuart Gordon, whose Re-Animator was one of the great trash pictures of 1985. From Beyond doesn't quite measure up - it's not trashy enough and it doesn't have the insane tunnel vision of the first movie - but in its own way, this is quite a job. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThe tone is so ludicrous and deadpan that it practically invites a late night audience to laugh as well as scream. |