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JesseCuster 03-30-05 10:47 PM

Has anyone heard anything, ever about "From Beyond"?
 
...this is a terrific H.P. Lovecraft influenced sci-fi horror film from the midish '80's starring much of the same cast and made by most of the same people that made Re-Animator. A very long time ago I seem to remember someone saying that the rights for this film are incredibly screwed up. That amazes me since the release of Re-Animator (both editions) seemed so painless and cut and dry. We have 57 editions of Patch Adams but we can't come up with one crappy edition of this?

emhello 03-30-05 10:54 PM

I remember seeing this when it came out - very cool movie. Thankfully there are only a small group of movies that I still really want on DVD but this is one of them. Here is my list:

The Naked Prey
Quick Change
Going Berserk
Jekyll and Hyde...Together Again
From Beyond


Still need lots of unreleased concerts and TV shows, but not too many movies left on my list!

TomOpus 03-30-05 10:56 PM

From Searching... :D

From Beyond UNCUT info!

JesseCuster 03-31-05 12:20 AM


Originally Posted by TomOpus
From Searching... :D
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I swear that I did do a search first and it came back sans hits.

THANK YOU! This is really *really* good news! From Beyond and Night of the Comet are my favorite MIA-on-DVD movies, at least from a nostalgic perspective.

BTW, WTF is up with Night of the Comet? Unlike From Beyond, it was a studio release and I think it made a decent amount of money (i.e. a profit) back in the day. I did a search for this also and didn't see any specific disc news.

speedy1961 03-31-05 10:29 AM


Originally Posted by JesseCuster
We have 57 editions of Patch Adams but we can't come up with one crappy edition of this?

There IS one crappy edition of this..... The Chinese version and I have it. Do YOU want it? :eek:

iexx 03-31-05 12:22 PM

Oh yes, one of my favorite Stuart Gordon flicks. Barbara Crampton in leather - you can't go wrong with that. Also, let's give props to the pituitary, it is the most under represented gland in Hollywood today.

TomOpus 03-31-05 06:24 PM


Originally Posted by JesseCuster
I swear that I did do a search first and it came back sans hits.

Yes, same here... but you sometimes have to get creative with searches. I knew there was a thread so I searched for "re-animator" and found it. I was gonna try "lovecraft" also. Sometimes you gotta attack from where they won't expect you :)

hobbes4444 03-31-05 07:30 PM

Actually a fairly decent German edition of From Beyond is available as a R0 PAL disc. Barebones, fullscreen and 2.0, but pretty decent presentation of a wild movie. "It's so beautiful. . ."
got mine here: http://www.xploitedcinema.com/dvds/dvds.asp?title=890

Giles 03-29-06 01:37 PM

I was just over at The Chopping List and they mention this:

At last, the restored, uncut version of Stuart Gordon's Lovecraft pastiche From Beyond (1987) is making its debut on the 24/7 US cable channel Monsters HD, June 10th. A DVD release cannot be far away.

hmm, we shall see...

Wick 03-29-06 04:06 PM

I have this on VHS, and I'd definitely recommend watching it.

gutwrencher 03-29-06 05:14 PM


Originally Posted by Giles
I was just over at The Chopping List and they mention this:

At last, the restored, uncut version of Stuart Gordon's Lovecraft pastiche From Beyond (1987) is making its debut on the 24/7 US cable channel Monsters HD, June 10th. A DVD release cannot be far away.

hmm, we shall see...

Yeah, check out the VideoWatchblog from Tim Lucas...and scroll about halfway down.:thumbsup:

Maybe it's the same write-up you are already talking about...I dunno. There is a footnote from Tim at the bottom of the article.

TomOpus 03-29-06 06:14 PM

Cool. Lets hope this will indeed results in a DVD release.

roger_d 03-30-06 06:44 AM

I've also been asking about this for the longest time. Hope it comes out soon. Love this movie. I'm sure you all will also, i highly recommend it.

AGuyNamedMike 03-30-06 06:46 AM

Great news! To this very day, whenever we call someone a psycho we point our finger out from our forehead and wiggle it.

http://www.horreur.net/img/frombeyond.jpghttp://img65.imageshack.us/img65/9603/picture5yq.jpg

tofferman 03-30-06 08:18 AM

I look forward to retiring my only remaining "asian import" (... i.e bootleg) dvd in the collection with this future release. This is a sorely overlooked title and I for one find it hard to believe it is still not out already.

Giles 03-30-06 08:53 AM


Originally Posted by gutwrencher
Yeah, check out the VideoWatchblog from Tim Lucas...and scroll about halfway down.:thumbsup:

Maybe it's the same write-up you are already talking about...I dunno. There is a footnote from Tim at the bottom of the article.


thanks for the link, great read...

I want this on Blu-Ray!

Numanoid 03-30-06 06:09 PM


Originally Posted by iexx
Also, let's give props to the pituitary, it is the most under represented gland in Hollywood today.

I believe you are referring to the Pineal gland. :D

Scott Weinberg 03-30-06 06:24 PM

Here's a press release from a network called "Monsters HD" that was posted over at CHUD.com:


MONSTERS HD AND FILMMAKER STUART GORDON UNITE FOR THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY HIGH-DEF RESTORATION OF THE HORROR CLASSIC “FROM BEYOND”

World Premiere of restored “Director’s Cut” to air June 10
at 8pm on Monsters HD in advance of DVD debut.

New York, NY (March 1, 2006) – Time Magazine called it a “Bloody good entertainment” while Roger Ebert said that it “establishes [Stuart Gordon] in the tradition of Hollywood horror directors who really try – directors including James Whale, Tod Browning and Roger Corman”. Released in the fall of 1986, Stuart Gordon’s FROM BEYOND, H.P. Lovecraft’s tale of an ambitious scientist’s experiments to discover a sixth sense, shocked and delighted horror fans and critics everywhere much in the same way that his previous Lovecraft adaptation, RE-ANIMATOR, did in the fall of 1985. But beyond the film’s monstrous creatures and scientific mutations there lurked an even more dreaded entity, one that almost destroyed the film, its makers, and its audience: The MPAA. Forced to cut his film by the MPAA in order to get an “R” rating, Gordon has waited two decades for his vision of FROM BEYOND to escape the darkness and now, to commemorate the film’s 20th anniversary, Monsters HD and Stuart Gordon have teamed up to finally bring the “Director’s Cut” of FROM BEYOND to terrifying light.

In 1986, Gordon, who also founded Chicago’s famed Organic Theater, had just come off of RE-ANIMATOR, which screened at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival and quickly became a worldwide hit with critics and audiences – all without a rating. As a result, Gordon says, “They were very upset and, I think, trying to get revenge for the un-rated RE-ANIMATOR. So we had to submit the film at least a dozen times, maybe more”. According to Gordon, meeting with the ratings board “was like going to the principal’s office to get scolded. They sat me down and the woman I was meeting with said, ‘This is disgusting. Instead of pulling away you keep pushing in and pushing in and pushing in!’ and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry!’ We ended up cutting out over a minute’s worth of material to finally get it released with an R-rating. They really took out some of the best stuff”. Gordon describes the experience as “a real ordeal, this process just went on and on, and the distribution people were screaming, ‘We’ve got a release date, you’ve got to make those cuts’”. The director proudly discusses one scene in particular that really got him into trouble. “The scene that upset them the most (and as I describe it, it is truly disgusting) is when Jeffrey Combs’ character’s pineal gland has gone out of control and he’s hungry for brains. He attacks a psychiatrist, played by my wife [Carolyn Purdy-Gordon], and he plants his mouth onto her eye socket and starts sucking. And the material that was cut out was when he actually sucks her eyeball out, spits it onto the floor and the eyeball lands looking back up at him and he continues to suck her brains through the eye socket and the camera pushes in. It’s really disturbing and it’s the longest restored piece, my guess is it’s about 30 seconds or so. I think it’s the most horrific moment in the whole movie.”

Upon its release in October of 1986, FROM BEYOND was a success with both critics and audiences and went on to cult classic status once it was released on video. But there was always something missing. “People started asking me if we would release a director’s cut. I went back looking for the material and even went looking through warehouses trying to find it and was told it had been thrown out. The movie moved from one company to another after [original distributor] Empire Pictures went under, so about five years after the release I gave up on it. So whenever people asked me about it I would tell them it was gone forever”.

But like a re-animated corpse, FROM BEYOND just wouldn’t stay dead. “A year ago last Christmas, I got a call from MGM saying ‘We’ve got a film can with this material and we don’t know what it is, could you come down and take a look at it?’ The can had been marked by my editor, Lee Percy, and it said ‘For the video release’, and inside were all the little trims that the MPAA had objected to. Everything was great until MGM was bought by Sony, and all the people I was dealing with were no longer there.” The resurrection of his original vision in jeopardy once again, Gordon luckily found an ally in Monsters HD president David Sehring. “He told me that they would be airing FROM BEYOND and knew about the discovery of the missing material. He said ‘How about if Monsters HD pays to have it done?’ which I thought was great. Things began to move forward again.”

Debuting on the VOOM Satellite service in October 2003 (and now available on Dish Network’s HD package), Monsters HD is America’s only 24-hour horror movie network, broadcasting world premiere HD transfers of genre classics from every era. Having broadcast RE-ANIMATOR in the past, Monsters HD General Manager David Sehring was eager to show FROM BEYOND on the network. “Being a huge fan of H.P. Lovecraft and Stuart Gordon's work (they go hand-in-hand you know) I licensed the television rights to FROM BEYOND for MONSTERS HD. Having known about this holy grail of horror and the controversy surrounding it, I made it a mission for MONSTERS HD to restore FROM BEYOND's long-lost footage for all the world to see. Monsters HD makes every effort to preserve and present rare director's cuts and European versions of horror movies when the film elements are made available to us. I asked Stuart Gordon as well as MGM & Sony's technical services departments if they could work together to restore the legendary missing footage into a new high definition transfer for MONSTERS HD's broadcast. After some questions as to where the lost footage was, the work of transferring the material to High Definition and reconfiguring the cut material into the film was supervised by Stuart”.

According to Sehring, “The restoration of FROM BEYOND was truly a ‘search and rescue’ effort. The biggest challenge of doing the restoration was locking down the location of the lost materials. Having worked on AMC's Film Preservation Festival for over 10 years, I discovered that playing detective and reporter, while asking the right questions, is always valuable. Luckily, the folks at MGM and Sony came to Stuart's and MONSTERS HD's rescue by finding the material that was cut from the FROM BEYOND work print. MGM & Sony re-transferred the material for us to High Definition and had to do a little digital clean-up and color correction in addition to some sound work and design - again - all supervised by the one and only Stuart Gordon”. Along with the restored footage, Monsters HD’s broadcast of FROM BEYOND will also feature a new 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack. For this to happen, some new sound work was done in early 2006. “This material was cut before the movie was mixed, so all that exists for it is the sound that was recorded on stage, which was mono, so we have to mix it back into the film”, reports Gordon. “Plus I think we need some of those really truly disgusting sound effects for that brain-sucking scene”, while Serhing says he hopes to hear “some delicious slurping sounds in 5.1 stereo surround that will accentuate some ‘eye –popping’ visuals in High Definition!”

Monsters HD’s world premiere broadcast of FROM BEYOND coincides with a renewed interest in the renowned author H.P. Lovecraft, who died in 1937. In the last few years there have been over a dozen films based on Lovecraft’s writings which include Gordon’s recent episode of MASTERS OF HORROR, DREAMS IN THE WITCH-HOUSE, the best-selling videogame CALL OF CTHULHU: DARK CORNERS OF THE EARTH from Bethesda Softworks, as well as Guillermo Del Toro’s upcoming adaptation of AT THE MOUNTIANS OF MADNESS. Monsters HD will also be celebrating the author’s legacy by airing such Lovecraft-related films as THE UNNAMABLE, DIE MONSTER DIE and Dan O’ Bannon’s THE RESURRECTED. But Lovecraft has had no better champion than Stuart Gordon, who has adapted the author’s works in five films: RE-ANIMATOR, FROM BEYOND, CASTLE FREAK (loosely based on Lovecraft’s “The Outsider”), DAGON, and DREAMS IN THE WITCH-HOUSE.

With the restored FROM BEYOND now set to air, Stuart Gordon is looking forward to seeing his maligned masterwork in its restored version in High Definition. He says, “The transfer is really stunning. Mac Ahlberg, the D.P., did a beautiful job and it’s got all these lurid colors. It was fun to see it again and to see it looking so good. I think it holds up pretty well. Everything that was trimmed by the MPAA is now back in the movie and it was great to see it restored. I had a wonderful feeling after it was done. An enormous sense of relief.” And David Sehring says of the restoration process, “As you know, Monsters HD's tagline is ‘It's Alive!’ We really take that to heart as we re-master films, like FROM BEYOND. Monsters HD hopes to bring forth more frights ‘from beyond’ and will continue to dig up long lost footage and film elements from the hallowed vaults of our favorite monster movie studios”.

About Monsters HD
It’s Alive! Launched in October 2003, MONSTERS HD is television’s first and only, definitive channel dedicated to the popular horror & creature feature category. From the classic horrors of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman to prehistoric giants like King Kong and Godzilla, to supernatural terrors like The Evil Dead and The Exorcist to the modern maniacs of Freddy, Jason and Leatherface. MONSTERS HD also goes behind the screams with Monsterama, the channel’s original series hosted by Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Monsterama focuses on every aspect of monster movie mania imaginable. From Hollywood special effects, creature shops and monster make-up to the latest creature collectibles, conventions and upcoming theatrical, DVD and video game releases. MONSTERS HD’s Monsterama series has fright fans glued to their seats and drooling with delight with the eerie sights on display shot in stunning hi definition. For more information on MONSTERS HD please log on to www.monstershd.com

About VOOM HD Networks
The VOOM HD Networks are the largest and most diverse suite of high definition channels available anywhere. Produced exclusively in true high definition and 5.1 Dolby digital surround sound for distribution in the U.S. through satellite and cable operators, the 15 VOOM HD Networks carry programming in categories as diverse as sports, movies, fashion, music and art. The VOOM HD Networks are commercial-free and available nationally on Echostar’s DISH Network. Developed by Rainbow Media to meet the growing demand for quality high definition programming, the VOOM HD Networks build on Rainbow Media's history of original programming innovation.
I'm guessing a DVD release won't be far behind..... :)

JesseCuster 03-31-06 05:12 AM

Thanks to whoever re-earthed this thread.

Agreed. This has got to be part of a DVD prep. A premiere on some station Z midnight anthology show doesn't make an extravagant re-edit like this worthwhile.

Egon's Ghost 04-01-06 02:26 PM

It warms my heart and glands to see From Beyond get such love...

Peep 04-01-06 05:13 PM

Hope we don't only get a Blu-Ray release.

DVDHO 04-02-06 01:44 PM

^^^^
At this point I will take any release,my VHS version is unplayable now for the last 3 years and I need to see this again soon,so I will take it DVD or blu-ray,just release it.

philo 04-02-06 05:59 PM

Once again SONY demonstrates what royal putzes they are by abandoning this restoration after acquiring MGM. Thank God for the folks at MONSTERS HD and president David Sehring for completing the job. You Sir deserve an Award.

If Sony has any brains at all they'd release the restored print the week after this premieres on Monsters HD.

islandclaws 05-25-07 05:22 PM

Coming Sept. 11, 2007 according to Fangoria.com.

Zen Peckinpah 05-25-07 08:18 PM

Please let this be true. The director's cut of this was unreal...gory as all hell! Can't wait to have some digital Barbara Crampton love...:D


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