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A 1920 short story by [[
The story is about seven pages long and tells of a high-strung scientist named Crawford Tillinghast who has invented a machine that -- partly by stimulating the [[Pineal Weirdness|pineal gland]] -- allows its users to see the [[Cosmic Horror|vast and terrible]] layers of reality that coexist with the world perceived by the five senses.<ref>The imagery here draws from many sources, but the most seemingly evident one must be ruled out. DXM was not developed until the '50s.</ref> He [[Mind Rape|forces]] the unnamed narrator to undergo this [[Go Mad
The film takes that setup [[Adaptation Expansion|and runs with it]]. [[Jeffrey Combs]] plays Tillinghast, who is a more innocent character than in the story. As the film opens, he activates the "resonator" (basically four large tuning forks connected to a giant computer), which glows hot pink and allows him to see eel-like creatures floating in the air. One of the creatures attacks him; he shuts the resonator off and runs to tell his mentor/collaborator, the kinky Dr. Pretorius (Ted Sorel).
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Tillinghast is charged with Pretorius' murder and confined to a mental institution. But "girl wonder" psychiatrist Dr. McMichaels (Barbara Crampton), sees a pattern in Tillinghast's ravings and suspects he may be telling the truth. She has him released into her custody and the two of them, accompanied by a policeman (Ken Foree), return to the house where the whole mess went down.
Repeated experiments with the resonator bring Pretorius [[Back
When the resonator is switched on (extradimensionally, by Pretorius) for the last time, Tillinghast's pineal gland pushes through his skull and pops out of his forehead on a stalk. Transported to a hospital, he goes on a brain-eating rampage which eventually takes him back to the house, where he tries to de-brain McMichaels as she attempts to blow up the machine. She counters by {{spoiler|biting off his gland}} in a scene nearly as gross and fully as symbolic as her kiss from Pretorius.
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Finally, Pretorius and Tillinghast battle one another to the gooey, gory death. McMichaels succeeds in destroying the laboratory, but when she tries to tell her story she is confined in the very institution at which she used to work. So it goes.
Can be read [[{{PAGENAME}}/Source|here, on this very wiki]].
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Crawford intentionally presses Pretorious' in order to distract him from trying to rape and devour McMichaels. Constantly insulting his impotency from his previous life.
* [[Black Dude Dies First]] - With a nickname like "Bubba", this was inevitable.▼
{{Quote|'''Dr. Edward Pretorius:''' The greatest sensual pleasure there is, is to know the desires of another.
'''Dr. Crawford Tillinghast:''' [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?|I know your desires you impotent pig!]]
'''Dr. Edward Pretorius:''' [[Smug Snake|We are the most powerful being in the universe!]]
'''Dr. Crawford Tillinghast:''' She'll know Edward. [[The Loins Sleep Tonight|How pathetic you are]], [[Good People Have Good Sex|that you can't make love!!]]
'''Dr. Edward Pretorius:''' [[Berserk Button|Maybe]] [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|you can]] [[You Will Be Assimilated|teach me.]]
'''Dr. Crawford Tillinghast:''' [[All According to Plan|Come]] and [[We Need a Distraction|get me]] [[Eunuchs Are Evil|Eunuch!!]]}}
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Bubba comes across as genuinely nice, however he's still a cop and will snap into action at any perceived danger. Whether it's protecting Katherine from what he believed to be Tillinghast attacking them, to protecting Tillinghast from Edward's monsters. He goes as far as manhandling Katherine when he sees her molest Tillinghast in his sleep, knowing the Resonator is influencing all of them in a bad way.
* [[Came Back Wrong]] - Pretorius, oh so much.
* [[Cosmic Horror]] - In the original story.
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Bubby faces it when the bugs eat him alive. Stripping him to the bone and his last moments alive and in agony.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Unlike "Re-Animator", which was released unrated, "From Beyond" was sent before the MPAA and heavily cut to achieve the R-Rating the studio demanded from the director. For years the missing cut gore footage were believed lost forever, but were ultimately found and restored for the film's DVD release. ▼
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything]]: The scene where Bubba confronts Katherine after saving Crawford from being eaten. She insists on recreating the experiment alone, Bubba flat out calls her out on her addiction to the Resonator.
* [[Fan Service]] ''and'' [[Fan Disservice]] - In the film. Barbara Crampton in a [[Of Corsets Sexy|leather corset]]? Want. Barbara Crampton in a strategically torn nightgown, getting her head sucked by an extradimensional pervert? [[Memetic Mutation|Do Not Want.]]▼
{{Quote|'''Bubba:''' I know this behavior. I've seen it on the streets. You may be a scientist lady, but right now, you're acting like a junkie.}}
* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: This is based off Lovecraft after all.▼
*[[Everyone Has Standards]]: Dr. Bloch has been nothing but a massive [[Dr. Jerk|jerk]]. She has no problem treating the slightest fit from Crawford as a [[Disproportionate Retribution|means to have the orderlies restrain him]] and is an absolute bitch to Katherine from the moment she met her. Yet when she sees the transformed Tillinghast eating frozen brains, she's absolutely horrified and actually tries to help him out. {{Spoiler|Too bad [[Heel Face Door Slam|he eats her brain]] instead.}}
* [[Humanoid Abomination]] - It's pretty clear when we see him after his first "death" that the only things still remotely human about Pretorius are his sexual deviancy and his face.▼
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* [[Idiot Ball]] - After the trio survive the first encounter with Pretorius and shut off the resonator, Katherine proclaims that they must try the experiment again. Naturally Crawford and Bubba are horrified by the idea. [[It Got Worse|It doesn't end well]].▼
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* [[Living Motion Detector]]▼
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]] - Initially at least, Katherine is intrigued by the resonator's effects and wants to continue experimenting with it, despite witnessing Pretorious [[Body Horror|make his own face explode]] on purpose.▼
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* [[Only Sane Man]] - Naturaly, nobody believes Crawford Tillinghast's story of strange creatures existing out of phase with us that can be seen when our pineal glands are stimulated. He is taken for a schizoprenic and rightly so. Inverted later when Dr. Katherine [[Mc Michaels]] who believes Crawfords story and wants to continue his experiments against his and the accompanying police officer's protests.▼
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* [[Pineal Weirdness]]▼
* [[Production Posse]] - ''Nineteen'' of ''[[Re-Animator]]'''s cast and crew returned for ''[[From Beyond]]'', and several of them worked together on later [[Lovecraft On Film|Lovecraftian projects]].▼
*[[Nice Guy|Nice Guy:]] Bubba is probably the nicest guy to ever be in a Lovecraft film. When he first meets Crawford and Katherine he's cordial, if not a bit jokey. While Crawford and Katherine work on the Resonator, he is cooking his own recipe for dumplings for them to try. While he was initially wary of Crawford when it looked like he attacked them, he is later protective of him when Katherine grows addicted to the Resonator.
* [[Title Drop]]: In the film - "He's trying to start the resonator... from beyond!"▼
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* [[Weirdness Censor]] - We're surrounded, every second of every day, by bizarre entities doing bizarre things. Our senses are simply not made to perceive them.▼
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*[[Supreme Chef]]: After Crawford, Bubba and Katherine find the Resonator, Bubba decides to make some dumplings for the three of them. Judging by his reaction to the smell of his cooking pot, it's safe to say he's a good cook.
*[[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]: The monster that Pretorius gets devoured by becomes him [[Cannibalism Superpower|by absorbing his knowledge and memories]]. It's ambiguous to whether or not this trope applies to Pretorious, because he wasn't spat out as the result and no one knows if it's really him or a monster taking his form. If it's the latter, then Pretorious was able to take over this being with his mind and will. {{Spoiler|Played straight when he eats Tillinghast. Rather than Pretorious dominating him by absorbing his mind, Crawford, has a will strong enough to fight Pretorious for control of the creature. It's enough to allow Crawford to temporarily tear himself out and tell McMichaels to run for it. Giving her time to escape while the building explodes.}}
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** Normally, theirs aren't either. It's better that way.
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