Watched: 10/25/2025
Format: Amazon Prime
Viewing: Third?
Director: Stuart Gordon
Pal @iffywizardry watched From Beyond (1986) as part of his horror-a-day Halloween watching, and I decided, yeah, I wanted to re-watch it this year. Because who doesn't need more Barbara Crampton in their movie-watching, really?
I wrote this up just last year, so no real need to re-litigate. If you read that brief write-up, I kinda underplayed the push the movie makes about the pineal-gland stuff and madness and sex intertwining. And it's right there. And leads to the most famous scene in the movie, which sure made an impression on a generation of horror fans.
But, yeah, this is a movie about a bunch of people with sexual hang-ups, and very little in the way of discussing it, and instead manifesting as weird shit. And it's kind of great.
It's a movie with transdimensional monsters, a warped villain, and a guy eating brains. What's not to like?
Anyhoo, like Re-Animator, this is an oddly perfect movie hitting all the right notes and gets better every time you watch it, which for genre film I think is *the* defining sign of greatness, whether we're talking horror or The Third Man.
I would pick this up on 4K, but it's currently $47. Which... come on, man.
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