From Beyond Is an ’80s Body Horror Fever Dream Worth Revisiting

Stuart Gordon’s 1986 H.P. Lovecraft horror movie serves up cosmic horror, body horror, and enough practical-effects slime to make ’80s horror fans feel right at home.

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AUGUST 31, 2026

Some scientific discoveries win Nobel Prizes. Others reveal an entire dimension of grotesque creatures that can suddenly see you back. From Beyond is firmly in category two. Stuart Gordon's 1986 body horror movie, adapted from H.P. Lovecraft, follows scientists experimenting with the Resonator, a machine designed to stimulate the pineal gland and reveal a reality beyond normal human perception. The experiment works. Congratulations to science. Condolences to literally everyone else.

Nearly 40 years later, the movie remains a cult favorite among body horror and cosmic horror fans, who are still enthusiastically returning to its resulting mess of mad science and gloriously tactile creature effects. Recent horror-community discussions continue to praise the makeup and practical effects in particular, while the combination of Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, and Ken Foree gives genre fans three very good reasons to press play before anything even starts mutating.

The premise may start with seeing beyond our reality, but Gordon has considerably grosser plans from there. If your horror preferences lean toward ’80s practical-effects horror, grotesque monsters, increasingly unhinged performances, and movies willing to get weird with their science, From Beyond is waiting on Tubi. And when the Resonator inevitably leaves you craving another nightmare, there’s plenty more horror to watch in the Terror on Tubi hub.

The Cast

Jeffrey Combs as Crawford Tillinghast

Combs plays Crawford like a man who has already seen something nobody will believe and is approximately three sentences away from completely losing it. Crawford becomes the frantic warning system at the center of the movie and Combs commits to every terrified explanation with the intensity horror fans know and love. He's nervous, twitchy, and increasingly overwhelmed as the Resonator's effects become more personal.

Barbara Crampton as Dr. Katherine McMichaels

Crampton gets perhaps the movie's most dramatic transformation as psychiatrist Dr. Katherine McMichaels, who begins determined to understand Crawford's claims scientifically and becomes increasingly fascinated by what the Resonator unlocks. Crampton sells that shift by letting Katherine's clinical curiosity gradually give way to something more obsessive and unpredictable, without losing the intelligence that made her investigate in the first place.

Ken Foree as Bubba Brownlee

Foree's Bubba Brownlee has the unenviable job of being the person in the room whose instincts remain relatively normal. Bubba approaches the Resonator with considerably more skepticism than the scientists and Foree gives him a grounded, commanding presence that becomes especially valuable once the cosmic horror starts tearing reality apart around them.