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Wooohooo! A director's cut of From Beyond...I can't wait!
(from SciFI dot Com)
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From Beyond Cuts Restored
Cult filmmaker Stuart Gordon told SCI FI Wire that he welcomed the opportunity to restore his 1986 horror film From Beyond to its original, unrated glory for an upcoming 20th-anniversary airing on Monsters HD. Gordon directed From Beyond as a follow-up to his cult classic Re-animator, but the Motion Picture Association of America forced him to make trims in order to secure an R rating.
"Monsters HD helped me put back all the material that I had to cut out," Gordon said in an interview. "It was a wonderful feeling to see it put together again.What's great about the new version is that it's the first time it's ever been shown in letterbox, so you're seeing the full frame. And also, being in high-def, the colors and the sharpness and everything; it just looks fantastic. I'd forgotten how beautiful the film is."
From Beyond, which is based on an H.P. Lovecraft tale, centers on a scientist (Ted Sorel) who creates a device called "the Resonator" that stimulates the pineal gland and opens the mind to other dimensions. The scientist takes his obsession too far, unleashing a sixth sense that essentially devours him and threatens to get the better of the scientist's nervous assistant (Jeffrey Combs) and a female scientist (Barbara Crampton) eager to learn more about the wayward experiment.
"The cuts we'd had to make, ... I would say, ... castrated the movie," Gordon said. "That's the way I would put it. We had to cut out some of the strongest material in the film. You have to go back through history a little bit. Re-animator was released unrated, and the MPAA was not happy about that, and so they were kind of getting their revenge with From Beyond."
Asked to describe what scene he was most satisfied to restore, Gordon replied: "I think the biggest scene is the one in which Crawford Tillinghast [Combs] is being examined, and he's got this thing, the pineal gland, growing out of his head. He sort of escapes from his room and then is discovered eating brains. And that whole sequence was the one that they really hit the hardest. We had to cut the murder of the psychiatrist [Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, the director's wife], in which he sucked her brain through her eye socket. In the release version, none of that was shown. There's a cut to them struggling, and then we see a shot of her shoes and blood splattering on the floor, and that's about it. So that sequence was completely restored." Monsters HD will air the world premiere of the "director's cut" of From Beyond on June 10 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. —Ian Spelling
(from SciFI dot Com)
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From Beyond Cuts Restored
Cult filmmaker Stuart Gordon told SCI FI Wire that he welcomed the opportunity to restore his 1986 horror film From Beyond to its original, unrated glory for an upcoming 20th-anniversary airing on Monsters HD. Gordon directed From Beyond as a follow-up to his cult classic Re-animator, but the Motion Picture Association of America forced him to make trims in order to secure an R rating.
"Monsters HD helped me put back all the material that I had to cut out," Gordon said in an interview. "It was a wonderful feeling to see it put together again.What's great about the new version is that it's the first time it's ever been shown in letterbox, so you're seeing the full frame. And also, being in high-def, the colors and the sharpness and everything; it just looks fantastic. I'd forgotten how beautiful the film is."
From Beyond, which is based on an H.P. Lovecraft tale, centers on a scientist (Ted Sorel) who creates a device called "the Resonator" that stimulates the pineal gland and opens the mind to other dimensions. The scientist takes his obsession too far, unleashing a sixth sense that essentially devours him and threatens to get the better of the scientist's nervous assistant (Jeffrey Combs) and a female scientist (Barbara Crampton) eager to learn more about the wayward experiment.
"The cuts we'd had to make, ... I would say, ... castrated the movie," Gordon said. "That's the way I would put it. We had to cut out some of the strongest material in the film. You have to go back through history a little bit. Re-animator was released unrated, and the MPAA was not happy about that, and so they were kind of getting their revenge with From Beyond."
Asked to describe what scene he was most satisfied to restore, Gordon replied: "I think the biggest scene is the one in which Crawford Tillinghast [Combs] is being examined, and he's got this thing, the pineal gland, growing out of his head. He sort of escapes from his room and then is discovered eating brains. And that whole sequence was the one that they really hit the hardest. We had to cut the murder of the psychiatrist [Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, the director's wife], in which he sucked her brain through her eye socket. In the release version, none of that was shown. There's a cut to them struggling, and then we see a shot of her shoes and blood splattering on the floor, and that's about it. So that sequence was completely restored." Monsters HD will air the world premiere of the "director's cut" of From Beyond on June 10 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. —Ian Spelling
