From Beyond

Scientists create a resonator to stimulate the pineal gland (sixth sense), and open up a door to a parallel (and hostile) universe…

• Director: Stuart Gordon
• Genre:Horror / Sci-Fi
• Runtime:86 minutes

Cast

Jeffrey Combs : Crawford Tillinghast
Barbara Crampton: Dr. Katherine McMichaels
Ken Foree : Buford ‘Bubba’ Brownlee
Ted Sorel : Dr. Edward Pretorius
Carolyn Purdy-Gordon: Dr. Bloch

The movie opens to Dr. Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) working on a machine called The Resonator. He powers up the instrument and soon witnesses strange creatures in the air. He reaches out to them but is bit on the cheek, and runs to alert his partner and head scientist, the sadistic and deranged Dr. Edward Pretorius (Ted Sorel). Meanwhile a nosy neighbor phones the police upon witnessing strange lights and noises emanating from the scientists’ study. Her dog, Bunny, runs outside and into the open door to the scientists’ house, where upstairs Edward is feeling the vibrations all through his pineal gland in his brain from the machine. He tells Crawford that it is like an “orgasm of the mind.” Bunny runs up the stairs and as the pursuing neighbor grabs him, Crawford smashes down the door of the attic laboratory with an axe, screaming and running outside, with the neighbor at his heels. Bunny has gone up into the attic and is licking the blood off the decapitated corpse of Edward, as the police swarm the house, arresting Crawford.

The setting changes to a schizophrenic ward, and we now see the bitter Dr. Bloch (Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, the director’s wife) being introduced to a new brain doctor, Dr. Katherine McMichaels (Barbara Crampton), who would like to see Crawford. Dr. Bloch introduces them, and Crawford begins to explain The Resonator and what all happened the night of the murder, making it sound as if he’s crazy. They decide to have a brain scan and notice that his pineal gland (in the brain) has grown, and Katherine decides to have him return to the house and show them The Resonator. Dr. Bloch is extremely jealous and refuses, but a detective who is on the case of Dr. Pretorius’s death overrides her authority, releasing Crawford to the supervision of Dr. McMichaels. Katherine tells Crawford that she believes him and together with the tough-guy detective, Bubba Brownlee (Ken Foree), she takes Crawford back to the house. Read more

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