Wednesday 1 April 2015



From Beyond
Dir: Stuart Gordon
1986
****
Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna do H.P Lovecraft. What's not to love? This is a 1980's horror spectacular, with loads of gore and creepiness. It's like a mix of the best of early Cronenberg and early Sam Raimi but then I don't want to take away anything from Gordon or Yuzna who are both cult horror heroes in their own right. 80's horror films are either absolutely awful or really great, this is an example of of the latter. Many have tried adapting Lovecraft's work but in my opinion, no one does it better than these two. I once met Jeffrey Combs, he is a really lovely man.

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