From Beyond
Why this pick
Another gleefully excessive Stuart Gordon Lovecraft adaptation: mad science, wet practical effects, pitch-black jokes, and a compact escalation from laboratory curiosity into outrageous body horror.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
Another gleefully excessive Stuart Gordon Lovecraft adaptation: mad science, wet practical effects, pitch-black jokes, and a compact escalation from laboratory curiosity into outrageous body horror.
Why this pick
Its punky, fast-moving collision of splattery undead horror and irreverent comedy shares Re-Animator’s joy in pushing gruesome situations to deliriously funny extremes.
Why this pick
Brian Yuzna channels a similarly lurid, mischievous body-horror sensibility, beginning as suburban paranoia before unleashing elaborate practical grotesquerie and biting social satire.
Why this pick
A sweetly off-kilter romance is buried beneath an increasingly cartoonish avalanche of blood, monsters, and inventive practical carnage—ideal for Re-Animator’s anything-goes comic horror energy.
Why this pick
This scrappy creature feature has the same infectious affection for gooey practical monsters, medical-style carnage, and eccentric characters confronting an escalating impossible mess.
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01 / THE STORY
At University of Zurich Institute of Medicine in Switzerland, Herbert West brings his dead professor, Dr. Hans Gruber, back to life. There are horrific side-effects, however; as West explains, the dosage was too large. When accused of killing Gruber, West counters: "I gave him life!"
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Dr. Carl Hill
Dr. Gruber

Dr. Harrod
Melvin the Re-Animated

Herbert West
Dan Cain

Megan Halsey

Dean Alan Halsey