FROM BEYOND (1986) - DUMB film!

Allhallowsday · May 16, 2020, 02:33:03 PM

FROM BEYOND (1986) was on TCM Underground last night around 2am. What a rubbish heap of grotesques! JEFFREY COMBS cries "That's where they ate him!" A moment later KEN FOREE exclaims "All this talk about eating is making me hungry!" BARBARA CRAMPTON thinks the "resonator" could cure schizophrenia! Y'know, like LSD... Third eyeball bite off! Brain suck from eye socket! I knew that b!tch doctor would GIT hers! JEFFREY COMBS asserts: "I'm not running away anymore!" So, he gets SLAPPED away!

JEFFREY COMBS bloody face bandage never gets changed, they just give 'im a haircut and stick more and more bandages to his ever expanding balding head. There is more than ONE head swallow - y'know, while still attached (not counting the head bite off we keep hearing about). Morphing TED SOREL molests BARBARA CRAMPTON: "I would have enjoyed you in a different way...!" (So, I'll swallow your head, keep up!) BARBARA CRAMPTON gets into B&D - costumes - mounts baldy - gets disturbed (arse hangin' out

) and pulls it together ENUFF for ... one ... more ... experiment ...

Ah! A messterpiece: gratuitous bare boobs, giant head swallowing basement slug (2nd attached head - looks like a reverse dump). In our final moments, almost regurgitated JEFFREY COMBS yells stridently, authoritatively: "Katherine! Get away!" so she jumps out the window with nanoseconds to spare!

Recommended for the fan of slimy crap! It's so ludicrous, it can't offend (though it tries!)

claws · May 16, 2020, 02:38:21 PM

Was this a first time viewing for you?

Allhallowsday · May 16, 2020, 02:45:53 PM

Quote from: claws on May 16, 2020, 02:38:21 PM
Was this a first time viewing for you?

Nope; saw it in the theater 30+ years ago when 'twas new. Like everybody who enjoyed RE-ANIMATOR I went to this slop, too!

Ted C · May 16, 2020, 03:36:41 PM

I rewatched this recently and it made a hell of a lot more sense than it did when I was a teenager. I found it to be pretty good.

dcj2112 · May 16, 2020, 06:22:36 PM

I know you're a pretty big bad movie fan so if you didn't like this one I don't know how you handle Charles Band's other stuff

On another forum we had a discussion about the most legitimately good thing Band was ever involved with and this came up

Allhallowsday · May 16, 2020, 07:02:43 PM

Quote from: dcj2112 on May 16, 2020, 06:22:36 PM
I know you're a pretty big bad movie fan so if you didn't like this one I don't know how you handle Charles Band's other stuff

On another forum we had a discussion about the most legitimately good thing Band was ever involved with and this came up

Y'mean PUPPETMASTER? Don't care for that. What's CHARLES BAND got to do with it?

STUART GORDON directed RE-ANIMATOR (which is much better) and followed up with this one.

I did like it, because I could see eczachary what it is: sh!t. I enjoyed it; I sure like making fun of it.

Rev. Powell · May 16, 2020, 08:00:30 PM

Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 16, 2020, 07:02:43 PM
Quote from: dcj2112 on May 16, 2020, 06:22:36 PM
I know you're a pretty big bad movie fan so if you didn't like this one I don't know how you handle Charles Band's other stuff

On another forum we had a discussion about the most legitimately good thing Band was ever involved with and this came up
Y'mean PUPPETMASTER? Don't care for that. What's CHARLES BAND got to do with it?

Band was an executive producer. I don't know for sure, but he probably had little to do with the finished product besides putting up $$$. Brian Yuzna was a producer who likely had more impact on the film.

I remember enjoying FROM BEYOND without being overly impressed. I remember the color pink. For a long time it was the pinkest horror movie ever, until THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE recently grabbed the title.

dcj2112 · May 16, 2020, 08:33:21 PM

Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 16, 2020, 07:02:43 PM
Quote from: dcj2112 on May 16, 2020, 06:22:36 PM
I know you're a pretty big bad movie fan so if you didn't like this one I don't know how you handle Charles Band's other stuff

On another forum we had a discussion about the most legitimately good thing Band was ever involved with and this came up
Y'mean PUPPETMASTER? Don't care for that. What's CHARLES BAND got to do with it?

STUART GORDON directed RE-ANIMATOR (which is much better) and followed up with this one.

I did like it, because I could see eczachary what it is: sh!t. I enjoyed it; I sure like making fun of it.

Charles Band was an executive producer for this one. If you're looking for good stuff actually directed by Charles Band you'd be looking at a much shorter list. Actually it might just be a blank page

dcj2112 · May 16, 2020, 08:34:25 PM

Quote from: Rev. Powell on May 16, 2020, 08:00:30 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 16, 2020, 07:02:43 PM
Quote from: dcj2112 on May 16, 2020, 06:22:36 PM
I know you're a pretty big bad movie fan so if you didn't like this one I don't know how you handle Charles Band's other stuff

On another forum we had a discussion about the most legitimately good thing Band was ever involved with and this came up
Y'mean PUPPETMASTER? Don't care for that. What's CHARLES BAND got to do with it?

Band was an executive producer. I don't know for sure, but he probably had little to do with the finished product besides putting up $$$. Brian Yuzna was a producer who likely had more impact on the film.

I remember enjoying FROM BEYOND without being overly impressed. I remember the color pink. For a long time it was the pinkest horror movie ever, until THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE recently grabbed the title.

Charles Band had everything to do with the good parts of this film and nothing to do with the bad parts. Just ask him!

Allhallowsday · May 16, 2020, 08:39:10 PM

I had more fun reading these responses - and learning! (Like I'll remember)... Than I did watching this giant turd of a movie! It's badness was fun tho.
I am DELIGHTED

to be re-acquainted with this messterful slimy Turd.

I think I'm lovin' it.

Quote from: dcj2112 on May 16, 2020, 08:34:25 PM
...Charles Band had everything to do with the good parts of this film and nothing to do with the bad parts. Just ask him!

This is some funny sh!t.

indianasmith · May 16, 2020, 09:47:25 PM

Was this the one that had Traci Lords in it, in her first post-porn movie role?

Allhallowsday · May 17, 2020, 12:05:05 AM

Quote from: indianasmith on May 16, 2020, 09:47:25 PM
Was this the one that had Traci Lords in it, in her first post-porn movie role?

I don't think so...

Ticonderoga 64 · May 17, 2020, 02:40:20 AM

Quote from: indianasmith on May 16, 2020, 09:47:25 PM
Was this the one that had Traci Lords in it, in her first post-porn movie role?

That was a remake of NOT OF THIS EARTH(1988)..a Jim Wynorksi production.

Rev. Powell · May 17, 2020, 09:09:01 AM

Quote from: dcj2112 on May 16, 2020, 08:34:25 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on May 16, 2020, 08:00:30 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 16, 2020, 07:02:43 PM
Quote from: dcj2112 on May 16, 2020, 06:22:36 PM
I know you're a pretty big bad movie fan so if you didn't like this one I don't know how you handle Charles Band's other stuff

On another forum we had a discussion about the most legitimately good thing Band was ever involved with and this came up
Y'mean PUPPETMASTER? Don't care for that. What's CHARLES BAND got to do with it?

Band was an executive producer. I don't know for sure, but he probably had little to do with the finished product besides putting up $$$. Brian Yuzna was a producer who likely had more impact on the film.

I remember enjoying FROM BEYOND without being overly impressed. I remember the color pink. For a long time it was the pinkest horror movie ever, until THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE recently grabbed the title.

Charles Band had everything to do with the good parts of this film and nothing to do with the bad parts. Just ask him!

Charles did get them to hire his brother Richard to do the score, which probably was a good move since it won some awards.

Alex · May 17, 2020, 10:22:07 AM

Another of my '80s faves.