Science-fiction body horror classic about an alternate dimension of pain and lust.
In a remote mansion, scientists are developing the resonator, a device that lets people venture beyond reality by activating their pineal gland. Driven by an insatiable thirst for knowledge, inventor Edward Pretorius takes things too far and is sucked into an alternate dimension. He returns as a something utterly grotesque.
Shortly after the success of Re-Animator, director Stuart Gordon reunited with actors Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton for another Lovecraft adaptation. They were joined by none other than Ken Foree – known for Dawn of the Dead (1978) – as detective Bubba Brownlee. From Beyond may not be as well-known as Re-Animator, but it’s even more outrageous. The gory special effects (which clearly influenced The Substance), the infamous eyeball-sucking scene and the hilarious stop-motion space eels elevate this cosmic body-horror gem to a whole new dimension of bad (or rather excellent) taste.
