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From Beyond (1986)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1986
Running Times: 85 mins
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio:
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CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Empire Pictures / Taryn Prov
Executive Producers: Charles Band, Bruce William Curtis
Producer: Brian Yuzna
Production Manager: Albert Band
SCRIPT
Script: Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli, Brian Yuzna
Story: H.P. Lovecraft
DIRECTION
Director: Stuart Gordon
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Mac Ahlberg
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Lee Percy
Post Production: Juliet Avola
MUSIC
Music: Richard Band
Music Editor: Tom Villano
SOUND
Foley Editor: Teressa Longo
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Costume Designer: Angee Beckett
SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: William Forsche (uncredited)
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: John Carl Buechler, Anthony Doublin, John Naulin,
Mark Shostrom
On-Set Effects Supervisor: Michael Deak
VISUAL EFFECTS
Optical Effects Supervisor: Linda Obalil
Title Designer: Robert Dawson
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Giovanni Natalucci
Set Director: Robert
A. Burns
MISCELLANEOUS
Assistant Production Accountant: Giancarlo J. Sini
Production Assistant: Andrea Borella STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Remo De Angelis
Stunts: Mauro Gasparri, Marco Girardi, Laura Pellutri
CASTING
Casting: Anthony Barnao
CAST
Jeffrey Combs (Crawford Tillinghast)
Barbara Crampton
(Dr Katherine McMichaels)
Ken Foree (Leroy 'Bubba' Brown)
Ted Sorel (Dr Edward Pretorius)
Carolyn Purdy-Gordon (Dr Bloch)
Bunny Summers (neighbour lady)
Bruce McGuire (Jordan Fields)
Del Russel (ambulance driver)
Dale Wyatt (paramedic)
Karen Christenfeld (nurse)
Andy Miller (patient in strait jacket)
John Leamer (shock technician)
Regina Bleesz (bondage girl)
PLOT SUMMARY
Doctors Pretorius and Crawford Tillinghast invent
a resonator which stimulates the pineal gland, use of which opens
up access to alternative dimensions. But it allows creatures from
beyond into our world, creatures that seem to kill Pretorius and drive
Tillinghast insane. Psychiatrist Dr McMichaels believes his strange
story and sets out to recreate the fateful experiment.
CAPSULE REVIEW
A worthy follow-up to Re-Animator (1985), boasting
great special effects (remember when it was made, in an age before
horror films were being ruined by unconvincing CGI effects) and enlivened
by campy, tongue-in-cheek performances and some genuinely funny dialogue.
Hugely entertaining and much under-valued by those who simply wanted
Stuart Gordon to make Re-Animator again.
AVAILABILITY
Brazil
Video Distributor: VTI Home Vídeo
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Empire Pictures
Video Distributor: Vestron Video
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: R
France
Rating: -12
UK
Rating: 18
USA
Rating: R
AWARDS
1986
Catalonian International Film Festival, Sitges, Spain
Caixa de Catalunya Best Original Soundtrack (Richard Band) - winner
Best Special Effects (John Naulin, Anthony Doublin) - winner
TIMELINE
1986
June
5: UK – theatrical release
October
24: USA – theatrical release
1987
May
20: France – theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
Humans are such easy prey.
Everythinng is alive...and hungry.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Aux portes de l'au-delà - French
title
Do Além - Brazilian title
From Beyond - Aliens des Grauens - German title
From beyond - Terrore dall'ignoto - Italian title
H.P. Lovecraft's From Beyond
Re-sonator - Spanish title
Ritorno del tempo - Italian title
Terrore dall'ignoto - Italian title KEYWORDS aliens; ambulances; book into film; decapitations; doctors; hospitals;
monsters; nurses; paramedics; psychiatric hospitals; psychiatrists;
scientists; strait jackets; timebombs
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