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[[File:Frombeyond 1986film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Promotional poster for ''From Beyond (1986 film)'']]

==Summary==


Loosely based on [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s short story "[[From Beyond (fiction)]]". A mad scientist and his unwitting assistant have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds beyond their wildest dreams, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms. Things go from bad to worse when the surviving assistant, his psychiatrist, and a private investigator return to the laboratory to turn the Resonator back on and learn what happened to the scientist....

==Details==

* Release Date: 1986
* Country/Language: USA, English
* Genres/Technical: Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy
* Runtime: 1 hr 26 min
* Starring: [[Jeffrey Combs]]
* Director: [[Stuart Gordon]]
* Writer: [[H.P. Lovecraft]] (original story), [[Stuart Gordon]], [[Brian Yuzna]], et.al.
* Producer/Production Co: [[Brian Yuzna]]

==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===

* Rated: R (Adult Content, Nudity, Violence)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* Ss___ (One and a Half Tentacles: a very loose adaptation of Lovecraft's original story)

With Gordon, Yuzna, and Combs involved, you can expect a loose adaptation of a Lovecraft story, fortified with grotesque and over-the-top special effects and horror, very weird sexual situations and adult content, buckets of fake blood and random tentacles, and a strong dose of slapstick and gallows humor; the Re-Animator films definitely deliver all of the above, and can be considered an easy example of the films made by this team. Lovecraft "purists" will probably object to the liberties taken with the original material, but viewers who are willing to buy into this seldom-dull combination of elements (or at least suspend their objections with their disbelief), these films can potentially be a guilty pleasure.

''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===

Review Links:
* [[User:Ywhateley|Y.Whateley]]: The first film is loosely based on Lovecraft's story, subsequent films bear even looser resemblance to the source material; the series as a whole adds a great deal of adult content, sex and nudity, and slapstick comedy that might make Lovecraft roll over in his grave; to be fair, the original story was a black comedy too, so maybe these aren't too far off in spirit from the original story. Nevertheless, I still find the films entertaining for the over-the-top cult films that they are.

==Synopsis==


A sadistic mad scientist and his unwitting assistant have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds beyond their wildest dreams, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms. Things go from bad to worse when the surviving assistant, his mutant pineal gland, his repressed psychiatrist, and a hard-boiled private investigator return to the laboratory to turn the Resonator back on and learn what happened to the scientist....

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===


==Associated Mythos Elements==
* Loosely based on [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s short story "[[From Beyond (fiction)]]"

==Keeper Notes==


==External links, See Also==
Other films by [[Brian Yuzna]], [[Stuart Gordon]], and [[Jeffrey Combs]] are very similar in tone, especially:
* ''[[Re-Animator (1985 franchise)]]''
* ''[[From Beyond (1986 film)]]''
* ''[[Castle Freak (1995 film)]]''
* ''[[H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon (1994 film)]]''
* ''[[Dagon (2001 film)]]''
* ''[[Dreams in the Witch House (2005 short)]]''
* ''[[The Unnameable (1988 franchise)]]'' (similar in tone, but from other creators)


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-* ''[[H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon (1994 film)]]''
+* ''[[H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon (1993 film)]]''
 * ''[[Dagon (2001 film)]]''
 * ''[[Dreams in the Witch House (2005 short)]]''
-* ''[[The Unnameable (1988 franchise)]]'' (similar in tone, but from other creators)
+* ''[[The Unnamable (1988 franchise)]]'' (similar in tone, but from other creators)

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 * Genres/Technical:  Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy
 * Runtime:  1 hr 26 min
-* Starring:  [[Jeffrey Combs]]
+* Starring:  [[Jeffrey Combs]], [[Barbara Crampton]], Ken Foree, Ted Sorel
 * Director:  [[Stuart Gordon]]
 * Writer:  [[H.P. Lovecraft]] (original story), [[Stuart Gordon]], [[Brian Yuzna]], et.al.
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 * ''[[Re-Animator (1985 franchise)]]''
 * ''[[From Beyond (1986 film)]]''
 * ''[[Castle Freak (1995 film)]]''
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 A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
-* Ss___ (One and a Half Tentacles: a very loose adaptation of Lovecraft's original story)
+* SSs__ (Two and a Half Tentacles: a very loose adaptation of Lovecraft's original story)
 With Gordon, Yuzna, and Combs involved, you can expect a loose adaptation of a Lovecraft story, fortified with grotesque and over-the-top special effects and horror, very weird sexual situations and adult content, buckets of fake blood and random tentacles, and a strong dose of slapstick and gallows humor; From Beyond definitely delivers all of the above, and can be considered an easy example of the films made by this team. Lovecraft "purists" will probably object to the liberties taken with the original material, but viewers who are willing to buy into this seldom-dull combination of elements (or at least suspend their objections with their disbelief), these films can potentially be a guilty pleasure.
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 * Ss___ (One and a Half Tentacles: a very loose adaptation of Lovecraft's original story)
-With Gordon, Yuzna, and Combs involved, you can expect a loose adaptation of a Lovecraft story, fortified with grotesque and over-the-top special effects and horror, very weird sexual situations and adult content, buckets of fake blood and random tentacles, and a strong dose of slapstick and gallows humor; the Re-Animator films definitely deliver all of the above, and can be considered an easy example of the films made by this team. Lovecraft "purists" will probably object to the liberties taken with the original material, but viewers who are willing to buy into this seldom-dull combination of elements (or at least suspend their objections with their disbelief), these films can potentially be a guilty pleasure.
+With Gordon, Yuzna, and Combs involved, you can expect a loose adaptation of a Lovecraft story, fortified with grotesque and over-the-top special effects and horror, very weird sexual situations and adult content, buckets of fake blood and random tentacles, and a strong dose of slapstick and gallows humor; From Beyond definitely delivers all of the above, and can be considered an easy example of the films made by this team. Lovecraft "purists" will probably object to the liberties taken with the original material, but viewers who are willing to buy into this seldom-dull combination of elements (or at least suspend their objections with their disbelief), these films can potentially be a guilty pleasure.
 ''Note:  This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''
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-* [[User:Ywhateley|Y.Whateley]]: The first film is loosely based on Lovecraft's story, subsequent films bear even looser resemblance to the source material; the series as a whole adds a great deal of adult content, sex and nudity, and slapstick comedy that might make Lovecraft roll over in his grave; to be fair, the original story was a black comedy too, so maybe these aren't too far off in spirit from the original story.  Nevertheless, I still find the films entertaining for the over-the-top cult films that they are.
+* [[User:Ywhateley|Y.Whateley]]: The film is loosely based on Lovecraft's story; the film adds a great deal of adult content, sex and nudity, and slapstick comedy that might make Lovecraft roll over in his grave.  Nevertheless, I still find the film entertaining for the over-the-top cult film it is.
 ==Synopsis==