Saturday, September 23, 2000

Review – From Beyond

Here we have a straight-to-video version of H.P. Lovecraft’s tale of a device that uncovers the World of the Invisible Scary Skeletons that exists all around us. At least I think Lovecraft’s story is in here somewhere. It’s buried under a big pile of bad, latex monsters and adolescent sexuality. Someday someone should make a version of this story without resorting to rape and various other unwelcome additions. But Empire Pictures most likely isn’t going to be the studio that does it. Ken Foree (of Dawn of the Dead fame) does a good job in a supporting role, but otherwise this outing’s mostly missable. See if desperate

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