From Beyond (1986)
5/10
Down with the Amoebas......
11 October 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Dr. Pretorius and his colleagues are working on a sensational experiment, they want to open the human mind to higher dimensions.

When the experiment succeeds, however, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms, which are floating around us all the time.

When Pretorius is killed by one of them, Dr. Tillinghast is under suspect and thrown into a psychiatric ward due to his stories.

Only the ambitious psychologist Dr. McMichaels believes him and wants to continue the experiment...

The thing is about cult movies, is that if you have never seen it, it has a lot to live up to. Like movies you enjoyed when you were a kid, if you hadn't seen one at a certain age, it wasn't really that good.

And here lies the problem with this film. Combs himself is a cult with all the films he's featured in, and it started okay, I thought it was going to be like Waxwork, with a hint of Yuzna thrown in.

But as soon as Combs goes back to the house, it falls apart into nothing more than blue lights, body horror, and Ken Foree running around in his pants.

The cast are good, even Crampton convinces slightly as a doctor, but just the content of the film is drivel, the original story was okay, but apart from some okay effects, it's all a bit boring really.
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