Barbara Crampton looks hot in her dominatrix outfit which I’m sure you recall is NOT a scene in H. P. Lovecraft’s “From Beyond.” Let’s just chalk it up to artistic license. The movie pretty much follows the plot of the short story: two scientists build a glowing RESONATOR that stimulates the pineal gland allowing them to see and enter the sixth dimension. Unfortunately, one of the scientists gets eaten by one of the alien dimensional creatures which results in a merged identity. There’s still the sexy psychiatrist, the cop who used to play in the NFL, and those snaky things that keep popping out of everyone’s foreheads. Like The Re-Animator, this movie lacks Lovecraftean suspense and dread, but substitutes lots of gore instead. GRADE: C
Whenever I read a tale by HPL, I always mentally insert a hot blonde dominatrix who’s clad in black leather. Makes Lovecraft’s work even more entertaining.
Works for me.
Yes, it’s possible to improve on everything, even Lovecraft.
As Raymond Chandler said, it’s always possible to move a story forward by having a man enter the room with a gun or a woman enter with a whip.
Funny, I don’t remember the NFL guy from Lovecraft’s story.
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What movie can’t be improved with the addition of a dominatrix and a cop who was a former NFL player?