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Stuart Gordon's cult classic horror film From Beyond premiered in the U.S. today in 1986, but we're sharing this Thai poster because it's more attractive than the American promo. For the uninitiated, From Beyond is loosely based on an H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name about a scientist who discovers what is today a standard terror motif: if you can see them, they can see you. Lovecraft came up with this idea way back in 1920, spinning a tale about a machine called a resonator that enables humans to see horrific beings that surround us but reside in an invisible adjacent dimension. But once the scientist perceives them, the monstrous entities likewise perceive him—and come calling.
The film starred Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, two alumni from Gordon's bravura gorefest Re-Animator, released the previous year. From Beyond doesn't push the envelope as far as the earlier film, but that doesn't mean it's bad. It just means Gordon tempered his vision a bit. In other ways the films are quite similar. Both play the naked-woman-as-victim card, which can be uncomfortable to watch, since these days such sequences are not benignly received. As always, times change.
In From Beyond the nudity isn't gratuitous exactly. One of the side effects of the resonator is that it frees the id, which is why you see Crampton go from buttoned up schoolmarm to brazen dominatrix in the promo shots below. Males are similarly affected. We searched for shots of co-star Ken Foree in his banana hammock undies—one of many famous moments from the film—but came up empty, so to speak. Regardless of the cultural shift that has placed movies like From Beyond, with its depiction of sexual assault, on shaky ground in 2017, we recommend it for true horror fans. The viewing may discomfit, but the villain is after all both man and monster, which makes him/it an interesting symbol for our modern age. ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_24.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_28.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_20.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_29.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_33.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_23.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_27.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_30.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_22.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_25.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_21.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_32.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_31.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/so_far_no_good_14.jpg)
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
2003—Hope Dies
Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. 1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.
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