Trick or Treat II: ‘From Beyond’
Here’s a real gem: an excerpt of From Beyond, a film I’ll be moving to the top of the Netflix queue immediately.
Tip of the hat to AMC’s SciFi Scanner for the clip and the copy below:
Lightly pulsating beneath the skin of your forehead, Descartes’ third eye, the pineal gland. Properly titillated by sonic vibrations from a machine built by a mad scientist, this seemingly superfluous organ can awaken, offering a glimpse of the ectoplasmic horrors of the world beyond our five senses. Needless to say, once your third eye opens? You start eating brains. And they can make you very sick.
From Beyond is another incredibly gory Stuart Gordon H.P. Lovecraft adaptation that came out in the early 80’s, shortly after the release of Re-Animator. It’s never quite gotten the same love, but it shares many of the timeless qualities of that horror sci-fi classic: Lovecraftian monsters, lots of gore, Jeffery Combs and Barbara Crampton’s exposed breasts.
I hate to be the one to point this out here, but if someone’s eating brains out of the trash can, they’re probably already very, very sick.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Let me try this again……… (your gizmo may count me as a new visitor, but it’s still just me, new pc, so had to fill out the comment form again).
There is a group of people somewhere on this planet who believe, spiritually, in eating the brains of their deceased elders. It was some time back when I viewed this, likely on PBS. IIRC, eating the brains would have them inherit the knowledge of the deceased. Unfortunately, a disease rampant in this population is passed along from the deceased, through the eating of the brain, to the person eating it.
I’m sure it’s done ceremoniously, however, and not via trash cans.