From Beyond - Watch it before they remake it!

Question 1: Have you seen an eighties horror movie? Question 2: Do you LIKE eighties horror movies? If you can answer `yes' to both questions, you should be in the right frame of mind to watch From Beyond.

It's got gore, pre-CGI special effects, over-the-top acting and big hair. If you think you can sit through that, you really need to watch this film. It's about a scientist who only goes and creates a device that activates a dormant part of the human brain, allowing them to see into a parallel universe. Unfortunately, the creatures who live in that parallel universe don't really like us (and tend to bite heads off if they catch you). Add one cool cop and one sexy scientist and you have a recipe for plenty of sadomasochistic shenanigans.

Ken ('Dawn of the Dead' 1979) Foree is on top form here, but - sadly - he's only a supporting character.  But the monsters are also the stars, plus the plot weaves and turns in various directions, leaving you wondering where it will go next. The only drawback I found was the leading man himself, Jeffrey Combs, who plays the scientist at the centre of it all. I found his acting to be a little too over-the-top in some placed and outright wooden in others.  His 'love interest' played by Barbara Crampton doesn't fair too much better.  Her acting is hardly up there with the best of them and the film-makers attempts to 'dull down' her looks at the beginning of the film by doing that thing all films do in these circumstances, i.e. tie her hair back and put a pair of glasses on her.  You just know that by the end of the film she'll be 's3xed up' when running screaming from the beasties (oh, and she does a lot of screaming in the final act - seriously, get ready with the 'mute' button!).

However, for all the duff acting (Ken Foree excluded!), all these eccentricities are easily overlooked when the monsters start taking heads and small stork-like third eye start popping up from all manner of places.  The special effects are truly special and go all the way to save this film and turn it into the cult classic it truly deserves to be.  So, if you like cheesy horror and don't simply want wall-to-wall, serious CGI effects, then take a trip back to the eighties and.... Start the resonator!

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that