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PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:49 am 
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Words cannot describe how much I am looking forward to this:

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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.


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I've always been intrigued by Lovecraft but have never read any of his books or seen any of the movies adapted from them. Perhaps I should change this.

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Orpheus wrote:
I've always been intrigued by Lovecraft but have never read any of his books or seen any of the movies adapted from them. Perhaps I should change this.

Well, Stuart Gordon does alot of Lovecraft's stuff (From Beyond, Re-Animator, Dagon, whatever his Master's of Horror episode was) but he definitely puts his own spin on them. Lovecraft is much like Stephen King in that he's great at coming up with fantastic stories, but not so great at actually writing. If you've ever heard the term "purple prose", it describes Lovecraft pretty well. Don't get me wrong, I like his stuff, just don't go into it expecting Faulkner.


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And Nate, you should check out Re-Animator, but don't go in expecting high art or anything. I think you'll have a lot of fun with it.

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You know I'm all about it.

So do they have a date?

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Mercury wrote:
You know I'm all about it.

So do they have a date?

It's playing on Monsters HD on June 10. The dvd comes out a little after that.


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Thanks for the heads up. This is good news.


I love reading Lovecraft. Some of the things in that guys imagination completely blow my mind. At the time, people must have thought he was the anti-christ. Most of the movies based on his work are poorly done but you can't blame the directors. With their budgets and technological restrictions at the time, it simply wasn't possible to visually adapt some of the wacky shit Lovecraft dreamed up.

Here is a good collection of shorts to get someone started who has never read any Lovecraft. It contains some of his fantasy and horror short stories.
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