From Beyond: Gordon and Yuzna's Sensory Nightmare

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Stuart Gordon adapted his first Lovecraft film from a story the author wrote as a joke. For his second he did something harder. “From Beyond” is barely two thousand words long, a slip of a tale Lovecraft drafted in 1920 in which a scientist builds a machine that stimulates a dormant sense in the human brain and shows two men the seething, invisible life that fills the air around them. There is almost no plot in it, only a premise and a shudder. Gordon and his Re-Animator team saw in that shudder a whole film, and in 1986 they turned a footnote into one of the strangest studio-orbit horror pictures of the decade.

Re-Animator: The Lovecraft Splatter Comedy That Nails It

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000

There is a shelf in every video shop I ever loved that held the films the big rental chains would not stock, and Re-Animator was the loudest thing on it. The cover promised a severed head and a syringe of glowing green, and for once the cover was telling the truth. Stuart Gordon’s 1985 debut is the film that finally cracked the code on adapting H.P. Lovecraft, which is a code most directors never even locate, because Lovecraft’s horror lives in adjectives and offscreen cosmic dread and refuses to sit still in front of a camera.

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From Beyond: Gordon and Yuzna's Sensory Nightmare

Re-Animator: The Lovecraft Splatter Comedy That Nails It