![]() But on the other hand, in terms of crowd-pleasing over the top effects and general B-movie shenanigans, this movie manages to take it even further, which is saying something! So that's what keeps this film from being quite as top shelf as their first endeavor - Jeffrey Combs becoming a brain-eating monster isn't quite as intellectually satisfying as his coldly intellectual portrayal of Herbert West. It's still got a sci-fi, and of course Lovecraftian base, but it's really over the top, including the characters. But this film has a whole other dimension, shape shifting monsters and all kinds of craziness. ![]() Re-Animator obviously had a supernatural element to it: you can't just inject dead people with green goo and have them sit up and start walking around again. The only thing that holds it back, maybe, is that it's so much further out there. ![]() It's a wild and imaginative story that stays true to pretty much everything that was great about Re-Animator in terms of tone, style, performance, etc. Everything after that, then, is extrapolation and invention. A fun fact about From Beyond: the original Lovecraft story is so short, that it's pretty much adapted in this film's pre-credits sequence.
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