H.P Lovecraft's From Beyond (1986) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | Wow.... That Was Weird!
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- Thank you to Christi + Patrick... mostly Patrick, for the Special Request! We both check out the H.P. Lovecraft Classic, From Beyond (1986). Here's our reaction to our first time watching.
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Jeffrey Combs makes anything watchable, no matter how bizarre. The man is a treasure.
Him and Tom Atkins are 2 reasons 80’s horror is awesome.
Very,very true.
You just earned yourself a film challenge and that challenge is called…
Motivational Growth, where Jeffery Combs plays a giant talking blob of bathroom mold giving a depressed shut-in life advice. It’s… A movie? I think..?
Foust: love of the damned
Jeffrey Combs is the living embodiment of an underrated actor!!!!! An Oscar level actor who never got the recognition he deserved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hollywood always hated horror movies. Even more than fantasy and sci-fi.
Not to mention playing 219 characters in various Star Trek shows etc. lol
I love the guy as much as the next Lovecraftian 80s horror fan, but Oscar level actor is pushing it a bit don't you think mate? He's a fantastic campy actor who hams it up with the best of them, but Oscar worthy he is not.
The black actor, Ken Foree, had starred in 1978's "Dawn of the Dead". "Castle Freak" was another horror film starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton that was directed by Stuart Gordon and based off an HP Lovecraft story.
I love when you guys react to more underrated horror films! Stuart Gordon is a horror icon, and his movies are ALWAYS entertaining and gleefully messed up in the most enjoyable way 😂❤
Very,very true.
Society (1989) is a must-see in this vein. Not a Lovecraft adaptation, but certainly in the same neighbourhood as From Beyond
It was directed by Brian Yuzna, who produced Stuart Gordon movies like Re-Animator and From Beyond, so there's also a neat connection to those.
In 1987 my buddies and I were hanging out smoking weed. We went to the video store and asked the Clerk gives us a really messed up movie. He gave us From Beyond. I had a big crash on Barbara Crampton after this. The Next week I went out and rented Re-Animator.
Barbara Crampton was and IS finer than hell 😍
I have never seen this movie, I am def going to go smoke sesh than check it out! Keeping the tradition alive lol
@reesebn38 This definitely reminds me of back of the video store type of rental days , wouldn't have been on the front shelf next to Moonstruck lol!! 😅
i also crushed on Barbara Crampton yes she is beautiful and apparently really nice in person as well.
For more Jeffery and Barbara check out Castle Freak. 😃
Watch "The Colour Out of Space" (2019) for a recent Lovecraft adaptation.
Yes! Nick Cage!
yeah they did a great adaptation with that one.
Great movie
Benevolent street is in Providence Rhode Island where HP Lovecraft lived his whole life. It’s about a half hour from my house.
Good to know.
oh "From Beyond", one of my best lovecraftian films ever :)
0:50 Basically the short scene before the title is Lovecrafts story, almost everything after that is a "continuation" by Stuart Gordon.
At 3:00 Mrs Movies says "It's like those assEaters from the Stephen King movie". I jumped the gun and paused the video to do research. When I unpaused I realised she was talking about Dreamcatcher. I just wanted to warn everybody DO NOT make my mistake and research "assEAters". 🥺
Made the same mistake looking up the Ass Blasters from the Tremors movies. 😂😂😂
This is one of those practical FX classics. Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton are amazing!
By the mid-1980s, the slasher film genre had gone into decline, and horror movies shifted more in the direction of H.P. Lovecraft-inspired horror, like From Beyond, Re-Animator, Prince of Darkness, Hellraiser, The Blob, Phantasm II, The Serpent and the Rainbow, etc.
scanners
The best years of horror imho
@@icoborg I don't think Scanners counts. For one, that came out in 1981, at the start of the slasher era. Also, Scanners was more of a psychic/paranormal thriller, like Carrie, The Dead Zone, and Firestarter.
@@tylermiller5904 It certainly was.
There was a big fantasy boom in the 80's.... And it definitely crept into the horror genre as the decade went on.
Consider adding Stuart Gordon's Dagon to your reaction list... it's every bit as insane as Reanimator and From Beyond!
Very true.
Eh, I don’t think it stands up to reanimate and from beyond. The actors are a bit weaker and the effects are worse. It just feels a little more cheesy overall but it’s still a fun one
Still got this on VHS
More Barbara Crampton yumminess. This film is bizarre but in a good way.
Very true.
Now it’s time to watch Cronenbergs Videodrome!!
It’s looks like our Rec Room 😂
So if anyone is curious about the story, or the idea of the resonator. HP lovecraft is known for being afraid of strange things, and one of them was microscopic organisms. the idea that you needed a device in order to see something that was everywhere creeped him out. He was also creeped out by air conditioners , like paranoid about where the cold comes from which also made it into a story of his.
He was out there. Hated dogs and seafood too. But what a genius. Seems like the geniuses of this world are tormented by things in their psyches.
Don't forget miscegenation.
That’s very insightful-Lovecraft was freaked out by things that modern science treated as commonplace.
@@tremorsfan He had some major hangups. Probably why the cancer got him as he didn't smoke or drink.
I remember doing a report on him in middle school in the mid 90’s. Insanity ran in his family. Like running through the town naked kind of insanity
I saw this movie when I was 11. Barbara Crampton was one of my 1st celebrity crushes 😋
SPOILERS.
The creature is a Shoggoth. A being that was created for slave labor by ancient aliens. It’s a blob that can form it’s body into any tool or shape it needs to but rebelled against its masters millions of years ago.
It also uploads the knowledge of any thing it eats like the scientist in the beginning, it actually thought it was the scientist. They aren’t in the original story From Beyond by Lovecraft but in his story At The Mountains of Madness.
🎶burnin' down the house...🎶
I have absolutely loved this movie since I saw theatrically. RIP Stuart Gordon.
In case anyone here is unfamiliar with Lovecraft's works - the entire plot of the short story this movie was based on was covered before the title screen. The story is 3 pages long and ends with the guy losing his head. Everything else in this movie was invented by the screenwriters.
One of my favorite Jeffrey Combs films. Great to see you cover this one.
Cardinal Lovecraftian NO-NOs:
1. Don't read the books
2. Don't recreate the experiment.
3. Don't speak the words.
4. Don't inject the substance.
5. Don't go to Innsmouth.
6. Don't go to Miskatonic university
7. Don't go to Arkham.
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Definitely add The Void to your list. Im a huge fan of Lovecraft stories and movies.
Keep bringing on with the lovecraft
An awesome classic! If you want something along the same lines of 'grossly bizarre' I recommend 'Society' one of Brian Yuzna's best movies!
25:31 "We have worm sign!"
An all time favorite for me. Barbara Crampton is just the best and the effects are so well done, especially the final fight.
Sean Clark from the YT channel malfuncsean actually owns the resonator from this movie and some other props.
Reanimator and From Beyond are just awesome Lovecraft adaptations. When I read Lovecraft's stories I never really saw anything funny in them. These two movies capture the crazy horror of his stories but also find some great morbid humor in them too.
Very true.
H.P. Lovecraft was pen pals with Robert E. Howard, the man that created Conan the Barbarian. In fact they used ideas from each others work in their stories. Many of the supernatural stuff in Conan the Barbarian were directly lifted from Lovecrafts works. So theoretically, Conan and Re-animator are in the same universe.
Barbara Crampton is one of the nicest people i have spoken to, she is still making movies today, Suitable Flesh is her latest
When I was on Twitter she was a great follow.
@@RealBradMiller seems like the horror stars tend to be the nicest, as if they know the true horror ad are nice, or can only truly nice people be as evil as they pretend on screen.
From what I know most H.P. Lovecraft stories end with the protagonist being locked up in an Insane Asylum.
Barbara Crampton is still gorgeous 😭
Check out the series Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities. They have episodes of horror stories that are based on H.P. Lovecraft's horror novels from the 1920s and the 1930s that are very accurate to the original canon source material. Guillermo Del Toro actually respects the lore of the Great Old Ones much more than most Hollywood film makers do.
This movie was actually my first experience with H. P. Lovecraft. Saw it as a kid with my mom back in 2003 in order to get my horror movie jitters out the way. Needless to say, I was freaked out by the end.
Thanks Patrick! Such a classic bonkers movie to request
This was my first HP Lovecraft movie as a kid and had NO idea what I had watched. Lol
Another nice little movie that sort of ties into the theme is the Banshee Chapter (2013) where similar things happen, just by a different mechanism. But Lovecraft and the plot of this story are mentioned as bearing similarities.
I'm glad you chose this one. I love it! Hot dog finger goo man 🤣
Resonator? I just met her.
Hello Movie Couple!😊 Jeffrey Combs has a large following in the Star Trek community playing multiple roles and the horror film community!🏆 Barbara Crampton is known as a scream queen, of course.😱 If Bubba starts rambling about different shrimp recipes, I'm outa here.😆 I just realized she was attacked by two scientists that lost their heads in this film and "Re-Animator".😉 That must be her demographic.😆 BRAINS!!!!🧠🧠🧠 Nice reactions to another H.P. Lovecraft film, kids!!!!🎬👏👏👏👏
Unlike Re-Animator, this movie was edited in order to get an R rating. For years, the footage was believed lost, but a pristine copy of the cut footage was discovered and now the home video releases are the full, uncut version. Well, almost. Apparently there was a nasty S&M scene at the beginning, showing what Dr. Pretorius was doing in his room, and that scene is truly lost. I'd read about it in Fangoria magazine before the movie came out and always wondered what happened to it.
There are two more movies that are recent released, that are sequels to this movie. they are called the resonator and resonator 2, from the Miskatonic U series. they are fun.
Ken Foree (The Sargent) in this movie was one of the main characters in the original Dawn Of The Dead. He made a small appearance in the remake and was also in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3. People get him mixed up sometimes with Keith David
there is unsurprisingly a whole subgenre what would fall under "50 shades of Lovecraft" but that was almost a given seeing how often tentacles make their appears in his novels XD
The African American Man in this movie is Kenan's Father from Kenan and Kel.
I think this movie is pretty good, particularly for a low budget 80s flick, especially since it has Jeffrey Combs in it. He is so very good at becoming the person he's playing.
I also want to recommend a Bruce Willis movie that seems to be mostly unknown. Tears of the Sun is a great movie! Sorry I can't afford to sub to the Patreon to make it a higher priority. I do want to note that I watched it 3 times on the day I discovered it.
I'm re-falling in love with you two these last two weeks... really top notch visual cinematic retorts going on here!!! Thank you sooo much, a reason to live😊😊😊
Now that is a movie! As a small child I would watch this movie on late night tv. Super-duper good time. Thank you.
Where were your parents? 😂
@@jamesgatz4490 Look your honor - the ax fell out of my hands 26 times. My younger brother had leukemia. So my mother lived at the hospital for almost 3 years. My dad worked during the day and would be at the hospital in the evenings if you must ask, ms. noisy pants.
Actually, the pineal gland regulates the sleep-wake cycle or circadian rhythm.
But had me rofling how he asked. "...the Weiner?"
I will always remember Ken Foree as Roger Rockmore (Kenan's dad) in Nickelodeon's Kenan and Kel.
a modern follow up that goes well with this movie is The Void....its modern horror with practical horror effects and its disturbing....very good choice...
Was a big fan of this movie. Even own a copy on VHS years ago. haven't seen this movies in at least 20 years.
An all-star cast of greats.
Mr. Movies holding Mrs. Movies' hands to comfort her during the brain eating scene.
Yes, Jeffrey Combs makes any movie better. Even his tiny unspeaking part in "House on Haunted Hill" (1999). I believe Mrs. has stumbled upon the subtitle for the film: "From Beyond, or, Bring on the Nipple Clamps!" The collaborations between Stuart Gordon and co-producer Brian Yuzna resulted in amazingly gory yet interesting films. And there is an overlap between universes, since Yuzna directed "Return of the Living Dead 3". Yuzna also worked on unbelievably diverse projects. His subversive body-horror/social commentary "Society" (1989) the same year as he co-wrote "Honey I Shrunk the Kids". Together, Gordon and Yuzna revived a whole horror sub-genre. They did for Lovecraft what Roger Corman did for Edgar Allen Poe.
Dr. Pretorius was named after a character in 'The Bride of Frankenstein'
God I love this movie.
The crazy scientist guy is a true legend of the big and small screen. In america a genius called Jeffrey coombs who has portrayed multiple characters on big and small screen including the re-animator franchise, ambassador shran the andorian in star trek enterprise as well as weyoun of the vorta in star trek deep space nine. And is one of America finest and most accomplished stars of stage and screen including in the video for rock legend meatloafs song I would do anything for love but I won't do that
Remember watching this down a friends house when we were 14, good movie, love the reactions
Great review, you guys really had fun with how out there this one was.
Let Mrs. Movie know the struggle with lipstick is real. I don't know if it is the lighting, but her skin tone almost seems pink at times, and that would definitely make a red lipstick look like "punch/fruit juice lips" if not done right. A vivid red lip color makes my skin look the same; that and sweating from doing hard work ruining my makeup most days makes makeup less fun, and more wasteful for me. Things that might help if she wants to experiment is sticking to nude tones or darker colors, not brighter ones, and using a lip liner a few shades darker to create a differentiating line between her lip color of choice, and her beautiful rosie complexion.
If she decides getting into makeup is something she wants to get more into, I'd recommend asking for a color check at a local Sephora or Ulta.
I love this movie...changed me in my teen years...
Lovecraftian Movie you should watch:
Necronomicon (1993), Castle Freak (1995), the Lurking Fear (1994), the Resurrected (1991), the Colour out of Space (2019), The Unnamable (1988) and Cast a Deadly Spell
(1991)
One of Barbara Cranston’s best roles, such a creepy and creative horror flick, one of my favorites
Stuart Gordon did a fine job of bringing the story to life; Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton are also wonderful, so full credit to them. Honestly though, you can't really experience Lovecraft without reading the stories. Lovecraft had a way of keeping scary things in the shadows which made them more terrifying. Stuart Gordon definitely doesn't do this because, well, films have to show, not tell. But I'd suggest you and Mrs. Movies try reading Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror, and The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward, to name just a few great ones.
Try the movie Would you rather. Combs is in that also. Really good movie
Jeffrey Combs FTW!!!!!!!!! one of my favorites!
Barbra Crampton is always worth watching!
This could've been called 'H.P. Lovecraft's: The Montauk Project'.
the football looking gentleman Is, veteran horror actor Ken Foree
Gooman with hotdog fingers..!Haahaaa love it✌🏻Enjoy watching you guys
The short story this is based on, which is pretty different from this movie, was also the inspiration for Stephen King’s The Mist and the short story (which is also pretty different from the movie) for 1408.I’m not sure King has said 1408 is his version of From Beyond, but you read it and it’s easy to tell it’s definitely his version of From Beyond but playing on Kings past drug use. Although The Mist seems like it’s more King’s take on this ‘60s British movie called Island of Terror.
The short story for From Beyond is basically just the opening part of the movie, and ends with the main character getting arrested; but short story however has a lot more going on when the machine gets turned on, they see vast alien landscapes with giant alien temples. None of the sex stuff is in the short story version of From Beyond, but the pineal gland is there, and the sex stuff in the movie came from some article Stuart Gordon had read (I think around that time) with regard to the pineal gland...or something like that...and also Brian Yuzna was a writer on it.
One of my favorite movies as a kid lol
Watch Dagon, it is also based on a Lovecraft story
Yeah, this movie is nuts!! On the Faraday cage, any solid conductive surface works.
Probably my favorite Stuart Gordon film. Dagon is also really good.
Please react to The Resurrected. Great Lovecraft story.
The original Lovecraft story was basically everything before the main credits after that is all original story
I hope you react to more Lovecraft adaptations! May I suggest The Color Out of Space (with Nick Cage) in it. He goes full Nick Cage in it.
Color Out Of Space (2019) would be a perfect one for their Lovecraft movies.
I'd also venture Dagon (2001), which was made by the same director as From Beyond and Re-Animator and is, likewise, Lovecraft inspired.
Never heard of this movie before so I'll give it a shot and see what it's about as long as I can handle it.
Yeaup..that's the reaction I expected outta this. I love this movie. Saw it in the theaters (I think). At least when it hit vhs i was first in line. I like this better than ReAnimator (but I still love that movie as well). Other Lovecraft movies are..Mouth of Madness, Dagon, Call Of Cuthulu that's filmed in a slient film style and effects but made in the early 2000s . and most of all a new movie with Nick Cage called The Color of Space. I do want to add another movie called Brain Damage (1988). It has that same Bert Gorden indy feel and storytelling.but it's not a Lovecraft story. It fits well with the 2 movies you watched already.
If you want Lovecraft done right; watch the 2005 Call of Cthulhu short film(done in the style of a 20's silent movie). Created by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. As a long time fan of the genre, they did with a modest budget and much imagination what major studios failed to with so much more. They would also do a 2011 rendering of The Whisperer in Darkness as a 1930s talkie.
Awesome reaction of my favorite movie!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊
Humans are such easy prey
Ken foree was the priest on TV in the dawn of the dead remake, and he was In rob zombies Halloween
Another film you might want to check out is Mind Ripper (1995) by Wes Craven, which has Lance Henriksen in it, creepy 90s sci-fi horror.
Want to checkout a couple more recent takes Nick Cage The Color of Space and Heather Graham's Suitable Flesh.
This has always been one of my favorite Lovecraft adaptations, because it's one of the few that doesn't play it as half- or more comedy, and because the ending is very, *very* Lovecraft. Shapeshifting monsters from Beyond? Only one survivor, and what she's seen drives her insane? Yep. That tracks.
Another good one if you can get past some *really* bad early CGI at the beginning of the movie, and some amateur acting, is Dagon. It's mostly The Shadow Over Innsmouth, with a little bit of the poem Dagon thrown in for flavor.
For a really fun movie, with a truly odd but brilliant performance from Jeffrey Combs in a supporting role, I highly recommend The Frighteners. It's from Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings, Dead Alive), and bridges between his early splatter horror/comedy and his brilliant LotR trilogy. It stars Michael J. Fox.
Dagon, (2001) ❤❤❤
36:14: Yeah ... hospital food sucks !
Sine you are checking out Stuart Gordon/Brian Yunza films, you absolutely have to watch 'Society' its a wild ride.
Copper is actually a good metal for Faraday cages.
Dr. Pretorius, cool ass villain name 😎
You should check out the Color Out of Space with nick cage for more Lovecraft goodness.
After Re Animator, Jeffrey Combs be back with Stuart Gordon. Incredible movie with much dark humour. ❤❤❤
Remember to always lock-out tag-out those resonators so unauthorized personnel don't have access