This week, The B-Movie Boys crank the Resonator to unsafe levels with From Beyond, Stuart Gordon’s gloriously goo-soaked adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft short story that somehow turns seven pages into ninety minutes of body horror, neon lighting, and aggressively bad decisions.

We break down the movie’s wettest moments, debate whether a giant science switch is more satisfying than a demolition plunger, and get unexpectedly fascinated by the production history that sent an American horror movie to Rome in the mid-80s. Along the way they discuss pineal glands, practical effects, Detective Bubba Brownlee, and why this might be one of the horniest cosmic horror movies ever made.

The Schlockometer is deployed. Science gets weird. The goo keeps flowing. And everyone involved probably should have stopped turning that machine back on.

Mentioned in this Episode:

• Blade Runner (1982)
• Dawn of the Dead (1978)
• Click (2006)
• The Fly (1986)
• Pink Flamingos (1972)
• Titanic (1997)
• Waterworld (1995)
• Avatar (2009)
• James Cameron
• Captain Planet
• Don Cheadle
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Friends
• H. P. Lovecraft
• Rami Malek
• Charles Band
• Dino De Laurentiis
• Federico Fellini
• Christopher Reeve
• Emeril Lagasse
• Oscar Mayer
• Nathan's Famous

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Welcome to The B-Movie Boys, where the movies get the stuff, and sometimes it's good, and sometimes it's not.

I'm Dave Michaels.

I'm Bryan Betz.

We got a wet one today, folks.

It's definitely sloppy and gooey and icky.

Give it to him.

Have you ever seen From Beyond?

I've never even heard of From Beyond.

Do you feel guilty about that? Because I have friends that made me feel guilty about that.

I feel guilty. Yes, I do.

I feel like this show here B-Movie Boys has been more of an experience for the people listening than the people like doing it. Because we're on a journey going through it.

Like, the first time watching these B movies, something that we thought was something entirely different, it feels like. But then there's a lot of people out there just watching us react to watching these movies the first time. And that's a whole thing.

That's an unboxing YouTube thing. Right.

It's a whole separate level of this that we didn't anticipate.

Let's go on the algorithm. Let's. Let's monetize. It's time.

It's time. Yeah.

Unbox this.

Watch us. Watch the thing.

Watch.

Whoa. That was a thing. And you'd be like, I knew it was a thing, but it's good to know that you know it's a thing now.

And look at the way he reacted visually. I watched him react to it. That's how I know he reacted to it.

Right.

What are we doing with life?

What is happening? What kind of.

I want to address something by saying, what are we doing with life there. I do not have any hot dogs ready to go this week.

No, no hot dogs.

We're out of that. Period.

This sounds suspiciously like something someone with lots of hot dogs prepared would say.

No, no, no, no, no. I've been craving, though. I feel like that episode of, like, It's Always Sunny where they eat people, and then it's like, oh, yeah. It's like, no, no.

I've had. Now once you get too many hot dogs at one point, it's like, that's all I want.

Yeah.

Is just glizzies down my gizzy.

You've opened Oscar Mayer's Box. Nathan's box.

That's worse.

Nathan's Famous box.

Nathan's Famous box.

Yeah.

It's a dick in a Nathan's Box. Watch out for the pitchfork. That's not what you need to going into your wiener at all.

I don't want that. No. Great.

From Beyond B Movie. How do you think it's gonna fare?

That's a good question. Because this one, God, it feels like it has all the things, all the stuff, but it does feel a little bit too well produced maybe. I don't know.

Yes and then no. Once you read into it again. It's one of those.

Yeah, it is.

It's one of those. Do you want to find out how good of a B movie it is?

I think we're about to do a special thing this week and it makes you so excited because it finally happened, folks.

It finally happened.

We'll get excited there.

We absolutely will. Schlockometer. One movie. Ten categories. Our patented, scientific, arbitrary way of scoring these movies. First category, and it is the audacity.

But to determine that, we need to tell you the tale of From Beyond.

Mad scientist. Dr. Pretorius invents the resonator. It's a machine that lets people perceive a hidden dimension full of invisible monsters. He turns it on.

It goes poorly. That's the end of the source material. Opening credits. It seems like a good time to say that this is an Adaptation of an H.P.

Lovecraft quote unquote story.

Yeah, I didn't know that until the opening credits of this movie when you.

Get the giant neon sign of H.P. Lovecrafts from beyond.

All right, we're getting Lovecraftian. Love it.

It's a 3,000 word short story that might as well just be on like the back of a baseball card.

I was gonna say, I think it's seven pages long.

The opening of this movie pre credits is legitimately the entire short story that they adapted and everything that follows. So the movie has nothing to do with HP Lovecrafts from beyond, for the most part.

Assistant Dr. Crawford Tillinghast activates. The machine gets bitten by an interdimensional creature and begs Pretorius to shut it down.

But Dr. Pretorius refuses because he's too busy having what he calls an orgasm of the mind. Take it where you can get it.

I guess I'm having issues with Dr. Pretorius name because I keep thinking of that Blade Runner Olympic guy who killed that lady. Oh yeah, that's Oscar Pretorius. It's different.

Pretorius is different from Pretorius, but barely.

Barely? They're both horrible people.

Yeah. Honestly, the traits evident in one probably spring up in the other. Shouldn't have used spring.

It was appropriate, though.

Pun not intended.

I mean, that's not that bad of a pun. It's not like you were talking to, like, Christopher Reeve and just feel like, oh, you just roll it with it.

That's true. That's pretty bad.

After getting bit by this interdimensional creature, Crawford's gonna escape the lab using a fire axe.

Police are gonna arrive to find Pretorius decapitated and Crawford's gonna get blamed for the whole thing, mostly because he escaped from the lab with a fire axe. And the police found Pretorius Sand's head. So naturally he's committed to a psychiatric hospital, as you do.

It's a pretty suspicious circumstance there. You look pretty guilty holding the axe when. When the other guy doesn't have a head.

And yet. Did they check the weapon? Did they, did they, did they ever find the head? No, because it got like sucked off. Just ripped right off of that guy.

Right.

Oh, it's weird. I love.

I think if it was. Was a hack job, you'd find the head. But these police.

Do you think there's like smooth edges the way it got ripped off, or do you think he left a little like a hack?

I think there's like a. There's like a little twisty nub.

You think kind of like a. Like a cuticle that got like that.

You're picking at, you know, like spiral. You know, like a piece of plastic from a kid's toy that has like a twist off thing.

And when you finish twisting, it's got the little spiral pointy guy at the top.

There's no easy way to put this, but everything that you just did and said made me think of duck dicks.

Yeah, I think that's actually a better metaphor for what I'm trying to describe.

That's terrific. All right.

Duck dick neck.

Not the first mention of dick we're going to have. This is a dick heavy movie.

It's got a lot of dicks or.

Things that look like dick.

That's more appropriate.

Yeah, that's more a very phallic movie.

People who act like dicks. Psychiatrist Dr. Katherine McMichaels believes Crawford's story after she discovers that his pineal gland has physically enlarged giggity.

So naturally, she teams up with Detective Bubba Brownlee to investigate the now abandoned science house.

You know, what's a problem about Detective Bubba Brownlee? What's the problem is that even without ever seeing this movie and us going, Detective Bubba Brownlee. You could picture Detective Bubba Brownlee.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, that is a Problem, Huh? He is a fantastic character though.

Well, he's played by Ken Fory.

Yeah.

Of dawn of the Dead fame.

Kind of looks like Remy Malek, but taller.

Scammy Malik. When you get a fake, call it what it is.

Yeah.

So the newly formed trio decide to rebuild and reactivate the resonator. Of course it's gonna unleash swarms and invisible creatures from another dimension again. And it also is going to give us the twist. Like the neck.

The duct tick neck.

The duct tick neck. Yeah.

Of showing us the prestorius. Preious. That's still not him. That's it.

Still not him.

Not good.

A spring would also be the neck shape.

You're right. Redorius. He's gonna be alive still somehow. Just now.

He's incredibly horny and he's dripping in half melted nightmare incub man who just wants everyone to experience the beyond.

Yeah. He's like, you gotta come check this out, guys. It's phenomenal.

Oh, I want to welcome you. This is the bed section. This is the bat section. This is the beyond.

I heard about that in Click.

Come on back here. I'll give you an orgasm of the mind in the beyond.

They shut the machine down and talk about how horny all that science just made them. And then Catherine becomes convinced that the resonator has scientific value. So she's gonna secretly turn it back on while everyone else is asleep.

Nothing could go wrong there. I'm sure.

No sneaky science. It's always the best way to science, right?

Yeah.

We love it. Pretorius returns because she turned the machine off. Of course he's gonna return. That's what he does.

Now he's back, baby.

It's like going in front of a mirror. Bloody Mary three times said you just flip a switch that you definitely shouldn't be flipping.

Get back. Back again. Drippy science guy.

Ew. He's so drippy. So wet. He only gets more drippy and wet as this movie goes along.

He gets so more and more deformed every time he appears.

He's going to try to feed on Catherine's brain. While Crawford and Bubba discover the machine's effects have spread throughout the entire house.

They've created a fun house of interdimensional creatures. Now that includes a basement that we didn't know existed until just now. And it's inhabited by a giant flesh eating worm.

Not the one on RFK jr's brain. That out a while ago. This is a basement worm.

Totally different basement worm. And it's. It's Not a corkscrew variety exactly.

It's important to note.

Let's they go downstairs to try to shut off the machine at the, at the circuit breaker because that awful drippy man won't let them get close to the off switch on the actual resonator.

This is like an old school Frankenstein switch that like it's on the bottom and you have to lift it all the way up again. It's not like I like.

Yeah, one of those guys gotta have authority.

I've always wanted to use one.

I've always wanted to use one too.

Would you rather use that or the thing when you blow up a building and you push down the plunger.

Oh, the building blow up plunger. Yeah, it's a good one but I.

Feel like it's not nearly as satisfying.

Like obviously you get the end result, but you could convince me that someone else is pushing the button just like that Fun dildo thinks he's pushing the button. To blow up the dummy button, we put explosive that for a month. You think I'm going to let that asshole just push a button?

It's going to blow up the entire thing. I'll will it get out of here.

Come on. I think the guy with the three thousand dollar explosives is gonna. Come on.

No, I actually, you know the, the two pronged handle that's like U shaped that you push forward and as it goes forward that you can hear the electricity getting.

That's what I want. I want to hear it build up.

I want to feel that power. I want to see the meter go up to the danger zone and start shaking, you know?

Yes, please. Like I want a really, really small slice of that safe pie that's green. Yeah, I gotta land it in there.

Yeah, you just get that lever up the right part so the gauge is like. Oh yeah, that's it. Oh no. He's giving it too much power.

I'm like thinking about like how it would feel though if I used the classic sciency switch that goes up and down. I'm thinking of like a PS5 controller.

Oh yeah.

I push a plunger, I'm not gonna get it. I'm not gonna get that joy. That resistance. Is there something resistance?

I don't know.

I don't know. I need to blow something up. I think that's what it comes down to.

I think we need to experiment.

This is like the most SID from Toy Story I've ever felt. Like I'm thinking of like my kids toys. Just like what aren't they using? What can I blow Up.

What can I blow up for science? I just need to feel the tactile response of the different plungers, switches, and levers.

I feel like 20 years ago people would have said, this is how you end up in the newspaper.

Nowadays it takes a lot more.

Now it's just behind a paywall. You don't really know who the murderers are in your neighborhood unless you give them a dollar sign a month.

Subscribe to their Patreon.

Oh, you want to find out who's murdered neighbor, you're gonna have to get down on my sub stack. I'm only gonna tell you if there's a murderer.

You're gonna have to subscribe. If you want to see me, hit the splody button.

You're gonna push the button on the left to get the info and the picture on the right to get pictures of my feet. It's your choice.

Evidence of my crimes or the horny stuff.

That's really all it is. That's the two categories.

Choose your own adventure.

The news, the horny stuff, Internet.

After barely surviving, the group tries to leave, but the resonator restarts all on its own. Catherine discovers Pretorius's leather S M wardrobe and decides to go all Sandy from Greece. Just a little hornier, if that's possible.

It's not. Sandy from Greece goes the whole way, like, after she's, danny, drive that car. And she's like, I need to leather up.

Yeah, that's the message of that movie. Ladies, change everything about yourself.

I don't think it's even that. I think she did it to protect herself because there's that episode of Friends with Ross and the leather pants once again, here we go.

They're really hard to get off. And maybe she's using the leather of the age as, like, a deterrent that they're really hard to get off.

But then again, he's just gonna, like, run his hands through his hair, get that grease, and just like, bam. Like Emeril. That's probably how Emeril fucks. I have to imagine.

I don't want to think about how Emeril fucks.

I mean, I'm not against it.

We're gonna have to subscribe to his feed. Recipes over here, Horny stuff over here.

If you want to get the recipes, you gotta click buy them. If you want to get the horny stuff, you gotta click bang. Ah, yes, man, it's full of onomatopoeia and Edinger. All three great trio.

I can't wait to talk about trios briefly. Soon we're getting so close talking about it. The house is going to erupt into chaos. As flesh stripping creatures swarm the attic.

Bubba is reduced to a skeleton. Pretorius mutates into an even bigger monstrosity.

And Crawford's pineal gland erupts from his forehead like one of those fish that has the dangler that used to trick all their fish. Except this one looks like a spaghetti dick.

That's exactly what it looks like.

It's that or it's that episode of south park way back in the day where Cartman's just doing Red Rocket. Red rocket that.

Yeah.

They actually said on set that they couldn't decide if it looked more like a dog dick or asparagus, but either way, it's not something I want to put in my mouth.

We'll get there.

We will.

When I saw this pineal gland come out of his forehead vagina. Nope. Everything about was nope. Everything.

Very, very nope situation. Also, I'm happy to hear you call it a pineal gland because that's always how I've heard it pronounced until I watched this movie.

And they're like the pineal gland.

No, I'm just gonna go with my brain and words I've known for forever and not let whatever this is affect my life.

Oh, this is unfortunately already affected my life.

Oh, no, I know, because again, dick spaghetti. It's like fettuccine.

That's what.

It's thicker.

It's like an udon noodle.

It's kind of like a drummer, like his drumstick, but flaccid. Like real flaccid. Like a magician got to it.

I've never tried to picture a flaccid drumstick, but now, yeah, I think you nailed it.

But then it also, like, it'll go like real surprisingly mobile. Yeah, I don't like it at all.

I don't like the amount of times that it. It goes back into his head and then reemerges and then pops his head.

Back out like it's a fucking meerkat. I do not like it, Sam. I don't like it. I don't like it. Not even a little bit.

Catherine fries the resonator with a fire extinguisher. Makes sense, right?

It's kind of like Lord of the Rings erasement is tear it to the ground. I'm like, oh, I know what you mean with those words.

But yeah, she. She manages to get the resonator offline because of fire extinguishing capabilities.

And she returns to the hospital where she's promptly declared insane because obviously. And then scheduled for shock therapy, obviously.

Crawford continues to mutate and he starts snacking on people's brains that he sucks out of their eye sockets. The mpaa.

The mpaa.

This is also around the time that he gets predator vision. And he can find brains real easily.

He does briefly get that. So realistically, people could have just, like, covered their brains in mud. They would have been fine. Safe.

Yeah.

Best brains ever.

Cover your pineal glands in mud and you'll be fine.

Just like, imagine the pineal gland popping out, like, in, like, a little mud thing, and going back in, like, just.

Dangling in front of his head like some sort of weird cartoon alien.

If they remade this movie in a Kung Pao way, this thing would be talking, like, it would absolutely be, like, have a personality.

Have a face. Like Tonguey. Yeah.

Oh, goodness. It's so disturbing. This scene is very famous.

It is the scene where Crawford is sitting on the floor, literally eating a brain, just snacking on the brain. And the MPAA said, hey, that's gross. And you can't do that hanging.

Yuck.

You're rated X now. So then they recut it 12 times. They're like, you can't do it. He said, fuck it then. All right, that's fine. I'll just move on my life.

It doesn't hurt. Okay. I just. Yeah. They had some interesting tactics with how they cut this one. They do.

We'll get there.

We'll get there.

So Catherine escapes again. Everyone gets caught and they escape.

That's what this movie is, is people escaping things, going into bad decisions and then escaping bad decision to go in, bad decision to get. That's the movie.

It is. They call it From Beyond. It should be called Escaping Bad Decisions that you got yourself into.

So she's gonna escape because she makes bad decisions. She also steals a bomb.

Why are they just keeping bombs the hospital?

Maybe that's like their defibrillator. But they're just like, I don't bomb clear.

Just keep it in a stockpile of bombs that we got here at the hospital. It's the 80s.

It's one of the classic bombs. It's got the clock on it, like digital clock that's counting backwards that you're just like, it's gonna stop at one. Or.

Well, like, that's the only way this ends.

Yeah. You know What? This movie pre 9, 11. That's how you can tell they kept bombs at hospitals.

Catherine wants to destroy the resonator once and for all because she didn't Destroy it enough before.

Right. Fire extinguisher wasn't enough. We got to really do this thing in.

Crawford is Petey o' glad they're going to kidnap Catherine to try to make the sex with her. It's as gross as you think it is.

Pretty gross. This is after she tried to reach her hand down his pants while he was asleep earlier in the movie.

Yep. When she was all Sandy from Greece.

Yeah. Very horny web movie.

But she also wasn't wearing leather pants like she was wearing assless.

That's true.

That's the difference.

Oh, okay. That's the difference.

Catherine doesn't want to have sex with Crawford and his pine hill gland, so she just bites off his pineal gland. Just bites off the protrusion when it's popping off.

Yeah.

As you do.

Boom.

Crawford just going to turn back into a boring, mild mannered research assistant instead of this sex crazed psychopath where he was at least interesting because science.

Yeah, but he still has like the weird forehead and whatnot.

Yeah, you can't really fix that. That's just another hole, unfortunately, that he could get paid good money for if he knows how to use it.

That's true.

That's the cj.

That's the other. The other link. Not the news.

Bye. The Pretoria is also going to reappear and he reclaims his favorite assistant in the grossest way possible.

Yeah, I like that. Over the course there's just like less and less of his face until he's basically a giant shrimp face.

And he just kind of sucks him up and does the twisty thing with his head.

He sure does. There's a lot of twisted things with heads sucking things up and sucking things out. And everything's wet.

And everything's.

Everything is wet.

She's like running up the stairs at one point and it's just flooding goo. I just. Wow.

Very wet. No other way of putting it.

Crawford briefly fights his way out from inside Pretorius grotesque body before both monsters dissolve into goo.

Catherine uses the extra dimensional bitey worm guys to escape her BDSM shackles just as the attic explodes, crashes through a window, breaks her leg and ends the movie laughing hysterically while telling the gather crowd it ate him.

That is a fever dream of a movie if I've ever seen one.

I texted Bryan that I could not remember this movie and I watched it two days ago with a whole bunch of people. Yeah, I remember how it started somewhere A, the ending might as well have just been B, nothing stuck in my brain in between.

Absolutely wild.

The Audacity.

Take an HP Lovecraft story that's seven pages long and turn it into a.

Feature film that's pretty damn audacious.

Turning it into the wettest feature film that's ever been made.

Titanic ain't got on this. No water World ain't got on this. I almost said Avatar ain't got on this, but they're like, they went forest and they went water.

Then they went firing ash fire. Now they're probably gonna go wind.

Then you gotta do heart. Go planet. Could you imagine? This whole time they've just been building to Captain Planet.

It's actually Don Cheadle. Yes.

Listen. The avatars are blue. This has just been an origin story for Captain Planet the whole time. James Cameron's Captain Planet.

The metaphor was the Unobtainium the whole time.

That's what they make the rings out of.

Overall, I don't think this is a very audacious movie outside of the story being written off a seven page short story.

I agree with that.

It's a body horror that looks, yeah, great, don't get me wrong, but oh boy, cosmic.

With a little bit of, A little bit of horniness on the side.

And neon.

A surprising amount of neon. I actually made a comment while we were watching that I thought the neon horror thing was a more recent development than it is.

It's not even close to being that recent.

No, this, this proved me wrong. Very wrong.

Audacity 4. I don't know why. It just doesn't feel like it is terribly audacious.

Yeah. I think I'm there with you because I, I agree.

Because as far as body horror goes, there's nothing in here that's like, that's gonna shock you more than anything.

Like the Fly would or anything like Pink Flamingos would.

Right?

Yeah. I'm okay with a four.

I think a four is, is. Is perfect here. The next category is the Heart.

I don't know. With this one, we usually score very.

High in the heart because it's obvious. You can usually see right on the screen how much these directors cared and what went into making it.

And I do think Stuart Gordon cared because he had done the Reanimator before this and made on it.

Absolutely.

But then he stays teamed up with Charles Band, the producer.

Yeah.

And Charles Band's a very interesting person because he does that thing where he just wants to make money very quickly.

Hollywood producers in the 80s.

But he goes about it in one of the weirder ways possible because he had his own production company called Charles Band International Pictures.

But then he didn't like the way that the distributors were distributing his movies, so he disbanded his own company to form another company called Empire Pictures, where he just distributed his own movies.

So, like, not vertical integration so much as just like parallel integration.

It was just sideways. Just went completely sideways.

She's like, I produced movies that sold that business, and now I distribute the movies that I already produced.

Exactly. He doesn't drink fucking Merlot.

So the thing about Charles Band is that since he's such a cheap bastard and he wants to get these movies out as quickly as he can and. And for as little money as he can, he budgets for this movie and he wants to figure out what it's actually going to cost.

And he comes up with the number $15 million.

That's if you make it in America.

He buys Dino De Laurentiis, Dino chitta Studios for $20 million from the Italian government because they had seized it from the De La Rent, his estate, family, whatever it was, for unpaid taxes. Oh, whoa, What a surprise. Why you couldn't have told me?

Oh, what taxes?

But no, the Italians still don't give a fuck because they are still doing ADR for their movies instead of recording live dialogue with the actors on set. Yeah, and it's a disaster.

There's actually a story of somebody like a worker near the set who was hammering something and they asked him to stop and he said, fellini never made me stop. And then I guess Stuart Gordon said, I'm not Fellini. And the worker said, I'll say.

Yeah.

But the way that they used to shoot movies in Italy is that they would shoot the movie and then they would go back in and dub all the dialogue. At this point, it's been like 20 years, 30 years, 40 years since fellow was like, Big. And there were really.

I mean, you could see it, like in the Fellini movies. It's very clear that it's dubbed dialogue. It's the way that it was always done there with all foreign movies. They were legally required to be dubbed.

Oh.

And the Italians, apparently, were very good at doing this and, like, masking regional accents and stuff and hiding bad vocal performances that they became very good at doing the dubbing, and they really just leaned into it. They looked at movie making, for the most part, like the Cruise at least, as just, like, a visual canvas.

They knew it was just gonna be done in post, for the most part, with the sound. So they would just be hammering away on sets in these soundstages knowing, like, fuck it, they're not gonna use the sound anyway. It doesn't matter.

Wild.

Just a teeny, itty, tiny, itty bitty bitty bit.

And finally, let me hammer all the time. How old was this guy?

But then, apparently, also at this studio, when they were filming the two movies at the same time, it was two entirely different crews that Stuart Gordon had a lot of trouble managing because they both worked differently, and it was an entire mess. I don't know if there's any heart in this.

I think that's where I'm getting at, at least on the director side, the producer side, maybe on the special effects side, there's plenty of heart because there's, like, four different units working on this at once.

Yeah, there's four different special effects units. Also. This is his second HP Lovecraft film because Reanimator is also based on a Lovecraft story.

And he'd eventually go on to do a third Lovecraft film, I think, also with Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton. So there's something here that he likes and enjoys doing.

It's just so interesting, though, because, like, H.P. Lovecraft is known for being abstract.

Yeah.

And it's very hard to visualize. Maybe that's it, though, is he just says, I can make something look pretty awesome right now just by using my brains. And here we go.

Yeah. And there's. There's really nobody who could say that's not what it's supposed to look like.

That's actually pretty cool. I like that.

Yeah.

That being said, the heart. Six.

I like six.

I almost went to seven, but I couldn't.

No, I think six is right.

What a weird start for this movie.

Very weird. Star.

Oh, man.

It's all the. The moisture in the air.

It's a very wet movie.

It's very wet.

Very wet.

Technical incompetence.

It's not there. No.

This is a very competent movie.

He's a really good filmmaker.

It looks great. The lighting they use when they go into the extra dimensional stuff with the. The neon pinks and the.

Yeah, all the special effects are so well executed.

The movie looks really, really good and.

Really gross by design.

Ah, man. I'm gonna go with a one.

I think we have to.

And it's just to give it something.

To give it something. Yeah. Which brings us to low budget ingenuity.

It's a two and a half million dollar movie. They budgeted out to 15 million. He said, I'll make it in Italy. It'll be two and a half million. Here's a movie.

And somehow that works.

It worked for just fine.

Is that a creative way to do it? I don't know. Is it ingenious? Not really, no.

I mean, I got nothing. Like, it's annoying, actually. It's annoying. I want this movie to do better. Yeah. On our slotometer.

I like this movie now.

Getting arbitrarily angry at this movie.

Damn it. Do something worse.

Like, what did I do to you to make you score this low? It's not your fault.

It's not. It's not your fault. Stuart Gordon, don't even. Hey, it's not your fault. Don't you say that, man. Don't do that to me.

Two.

Two. It feels so low.

But like, he moved the movie to Italy to make it worse for literally everyone.

It's pretty ingenious. No, no, it's really not.

Oh, man. This is low scoring. Not good. This is not good. Okay, what is happening?

How about this genre? Exploitation?

It's body horror. They did all the body horror.

They did all the body horror.

Nailed it.

They did some of the most horrible body horror I've seen. It's probably got that stuff springing from foreheads. People getting their heads twisted off, eating brains, sucking brains through eye sockets.

It pissed off the mpaa.

They really pissed off the MPAA with this one, Ted.

Fuck it.

Fuck it.

10.

That brings us to what we've been teasing this whole time.

We're here. We did it.

Holy trinity.

So far, the movies that we talked about. Bird, Timmic. Out of five. I don't remember what gave it a five. Do we say like, oh, it was a six. But then it was like, worse. So we knocked the boy.

I don't remember something like that someone will write and say, you guys, I remember your own rules. It's arbitrary for a reason.

It's totally arbitrary. It's all from the seat of the pants.

The highs. We scored. Death Pen got a seven. Kung Pal got a seven. Giant Claw got a seven. The stuff got a seven. Dolomite got a seven.

Basket Case got a seven for the Holy Trinity. So those are all two out of three. Meatloaf math. Not too shabby.

Pink Flamingos got an eight.

That's very good point. Pink Flamingos broke me. Maybe that's why.

Going above and beyond, we have finally.

Done it, and we have our first Holy Trinity. Which, again, does not make it a Holy Trinity by any means. If it took us 12 episodes to get it. But here we are.

But here we are. Blood. We've got it. Little bit. Not a lot, but a little.

Not a lot.

Not a lot, but enough to qualify.

Yeah.

Boobs.

We got it.

We got them.

Not a lot, but enough to qualify.

Yeah. And booms. Not a lot, but enough to qualify.

When I saw that bomb at the end, I started losing my mind thinking,.

We're gonna get it.

There's a chance it's gonna happen. That bomb needs to explode. And in this movie. Yeah. It's 50. 50 If that thing's going off or not. I really didn't know that's true.

There was a chance that it could have gotten jammed up by a fire extinguisher or something.

This has got to be a full blown 10.

Yeah.

And you know what? Because it's the first, I want to give it an 11.

Boom. I love it. Yeah. Bump up that score. Even though it barely got blood and booms.

Or maybe if anything hits the Holy Trinity, we just give it an 11.

I think that's probably because we're realizing.

How hard it is to hit the Holy Trinity.

It actually is difficult to get all three.

It might not be all that holy. It might just be three things.

It might just be three things that appear frequently in different combinations. This one almost didn't get it because the MPAA was given Stuart Gordon, a lot of issues with the reanimator over the amount of blood.

So they're like, well, what we'll do is we will do less blood. We'll replace it instead with slime. And it ended up causing them even more trouble because the MPAA was like, that's way worse. It's so gross.

With the reanimator, they're like, well, we're giving you an X because that's just way Too much of everything. And he said, okay, I'm just going to release it myself.

Yeah, they wanted to release this one, so they. They cut. Instead of cutting entire scenes, they just cut back the timing on every scene.

Yeah. Which is a choice, and I get it. And it's kind of like tighten it up and kind of make it just look quick so you might blink and miss it.

Kind of like psycho shower scene style where it's like, no. No one ever.

Exactly.

It's that.

Right.

But the way I understand, the way I read about it was the MPA was so furious about the reanimator being a hit after he didn't accept their rating. And he just put it out that they were gunning for him for this one.

Not surprised.

But then I also don't understand why he didn't just do the old trick of go over the top.

Yeah, I know.

There was at least one scene that was completely cut with Dr. Pretorius when he was still human, apparently, like, put a nail through a girl's tongue.

That's unnecessary. That. That should be cut for that reason.

Part of his. His BDSM attic dungeon shenanigans.

Unless was the tongue. The over the top maybe, like, what you should.

What you do in these situations where you have things that are really, really gross and really yucky and you want to get it by the MPAA is you put something in there or a couple things in there that are so far over the top that that's what's going to draw the attention. That's what's going to get cut.

Maybe that's what that scene was that.

Backfired then, because the brain eating scene ended up on the cutting room floor, famously. And Stuart Gordon was not happy. All that to say we'll get there again.

Yeah, again. There's more getting there.

Well, it was at the end, but just I got a little longer, I guess.

Yeah, it's the 11 for the holy Trinity. And that brings us right into memorable characters.

I am going to forget literally all of their names, but I'm never going to forget that little dangly penal gland or whatever it was. Never.

Exactly.

Never. Never ever. Never ever.

Not a chance I remember any of their names except maybe Pretorius. Maybe.

I'm going with an 8. Like that's gonna haunt me.

But yeah, that. That little dangly guy.

Big one for me.

And just like the.

The transformation of the Pretorius monster creature, like, he becomes like this weird thing with the long neck and, like, his head is, like, bobbing around the screen. And it's just bizarre. And so it's. It's burned into my head for sure.

Nightmare fuel.

He's got a dangly neck with a dangly thing protruding from his forehead. It's just so much dangle.

You don't dangle the dangle, right? Or do you dangle the dangle? How do you.

Do you.

Would you put a dangle on another dangle? Would that be a double dangle or would that just be a single dangle with a dangle on top? Kind of like whenever you hit like a.

Right, like a baseball, you get a single. But then like a guy's gonna round 30, he's gonna go home. You're like, I'm gonna take two. And I know it's only a single plus an extra base.

It's not a double.

Right?

That little glue sniffer with the book tell you any differently? Sorry.

It's not. It's not a dangle on a dangle so much as it's just an extended dangle.

Either way, do boot scooting quotes is next. You got anything?

I had one. Oh. When he bit his head off like a gingerbread man.

That was the only one I wrote down for the. It's such a good line reading movie.

The way Jeffrey Combs looks directly into the camera and says, like a gingerbread man. Yeah.

He did it with the same attitude that you would look into the camera and say, hot tub time machine.

Exactly.

Like that amount of commitment. But that's not what this movie's called. Why did you say it like that?

Wait a minute. This movie's not called like a gingerbread man.

It's a great line. I can't believe that. That's the one you got too.

It's the only one, though.

Yeah. It's aggressive, but I like the movie Damage. Six. Aggressive. I said eight. Eight's even more aggressive. Six is down there.

It is so aggressive.

Look how reasonable we are, giving it a six. Look at us.

Hey, I see what you're doing. You're like. You're putting out the obscene things.

Producing. I'm producing. I'm producing. Yeah.

Six.

Here we go.

Six. Okay. Entertainment value.

I don't know.

Really?

Yeah. Because I. I like this movie. Damn it. I do.

Yeah. Yeah.

I thought it was going to be like 10 minutes longer while watching it. So there was a party. That's like, wait, that was it. Then a part of. It's like, no, that was definitely it.

But that's all it needs to be, I think.

But then what was it at the Same time. Because I honestly, that's all feelings of, like, when I watched the movie, like, hostile, where it just felt like. Like, that's torture porn.

Yeah.

And this was body horror. And it's all just to get the reaction from the audience. And I understand that.

Yeah.

And at some point, a story helps. Even porn have stories, Right?

Well, this had porn, so that's a good point. There was a goopiness to it. They turned the thing on and say, goop again.

Say goop again. Say goop again.

See what happens again. Goop again.

Don't do that three times. Because then Gwyneth's going to show up.

Because then Gwyneth Paltrow and you're just.

Going to have, like, 600 missing from your bank account. But you're going to have a lube that smells like strawberries.

I mean, where does he get all these fun toys? Goop.com.

They changed it. They. They changed, like, where it's sexual wellness and wellness and everything like that. Like, navigating. It's harder to do almost.

Why would they make it harder to find the stuff?

I don't know. Unless, like, Gwyneth's turning a page and she's like, I'm getting older and it's much less moist.

Maybe it's time to be a little less goopy. So the Resonator sound effect, they actually ended up sampling that in Intergalactic by the Beastie Boys.

Yeah, they did.

One of my favorite things I learned about this movie.

There's a lot of cool things about this movie. Even, like, this Stravinsky musical tones. But, like, the Petruska notes and stuff like that.

Yeah.

Weird how this all works. So weird.

A fever dream. Still.

Still.

That being said, that being said, apparently it has a sequel that I didn't know about.

Okay. How do you go From Beyonder from farther beyond?

Well, it's called the Resonator.

Oh.

That's too late. That's way too late. Yeah. Who do you think you are, Troma?

Well, I guess it was directed by, like, completely different people. It's not really connected. But they're calling it, like, a spiritual.

Sequel to From Beyond. Do not care for the term spiritual sequel. Yeah, it either is or it isn't.

Actually, it looks like. Hold on. Crawford Tillinghast is a character in it. So it has to be a sequel. Right.

So this could be like a Shark Boy lava girl in 3D scenario where they're like, tie him in kind of.

Eventually, yeah. I might have to check this out, it's apparently on Prime.

Stay tuned.

About that, I have a lot of curiosity about it.

Yeah, I don't care for my curiosity, but I'll follow it. Damn.

Does say something, doesn't it?

It sure does.

I guess this is entertaining.

Seven.

I like seven. That leads us to our final category. Cult ability.

This is a really interesting one because the scene with the brain eating that ended up on the cutting room floor got found. Oh. And then it got restored into a 4K director's cut.

We love a director's cut with brain eating.

And now we're back to Stuart Gordon's original vision. That's what we have today and that's what we know and love. And this thing has become an absolutely massive cult hit.

Yeah. This is actually just in our circle in our Monday midnight movie madness. This is the most attended one we've had so far.

And I felt like we were the only people who hadn't seen it. That was fun.

Yeah. It seemed like everybody was there, was there to see our reaction to it.

It was weird how it's like I. I don't know. This must have been like what zoo animals feel like.

Yeah.

Like it was odd. It was fun reacting to it though. The chats are open, folks. Fire away. When you're in there, have a good.

Time, get in there, talk it up, send some gifts.

Cultability. It's a 10 easy, Ted.

So much fun.

Share it with all your friends. Share with your family. Your memaw at Thanksgiving would appreciate this.

Is that Barbara Crampton from Days of Our Lives? What is she wearing? Oh, I understand, though, the.

The want to see somebody else react to it because I think that's part of the fun of the cult ability. Because now I want to. I want to introduce it to other people and see how they react.

I do too. And I. That more people need to throw more things at us.

Yeah, I mean, we let the computer, the AI really dig in and pick the next movie that's legit, where we don't know what we're talking about next week. And I throw it into the computer. It has the whole list of everything we talk about and all that stuff. And it's like this one.

Hit him with this.

Done. You got it. Computer.

You got it. Pewter.

Most of these movies I haven't seen and you haven't seen and we haven't seen and apparently a lot of other people Have. Yeah, that's pretty neat.

It's pretty cool. And it's. It's fun to the people who have seen it to see our reaction to it.

Come share.

Hit that discord. Link in the show notes.

It's a fun community.

We're having a good time.

Do you want to know who didn't have a good time with this movie? Or maybe he did. I'm not sure.

Who?

Roger Ebert, the one and only. He gave this two and a half stars.

Okay.

He said, the slime, I gather, is edible. It comes in 10 gallon drums and is the same stuff McDonald's once used to give body to their milkshakes.

I don't know the product trademark, but I would like to think the manufacturers package it like a generic grocery item in big white cans with black letters that say slime. They use a lot of it in from beyond, where creatures from other dimensions appear in our world dripping with mucus and goofy.

I think he tried making a joke.

Yeah, gross. I don't want to think about the. What I saw in this movie being in a milkshake.

No, not at all.

He said, at a time when almost any exploitation movie can make money if its ads are clever enough, this is a movie that tries to mix some satire and artistry in with the slime. So he kind of got it too.

Yeah, it is over the top.

It is. And Roger did say a whole bunch of other in the middle.

And it led to one of my favorite comments of all time that just really summed up the Internet as a whole, where someone from three years ago replied and said Roger is right though. He described a three star movie rather than a two and a half star one. And I feel like that right there is the Internet.

God, that's the Internet. I agree with everything you said except his actual rating.

It's a. It's a half star higher. Clearly. Based on the words that you said. Clearly.

Come on. Come on, man. Give it. Give the love it deserves. I did think of something with technical incompetence.

What do you got?

Those bugs from the other dimension kind of gave me birdemic vibes.

Big time birdemic vibes. Except these moved. And they weren't just a single Photoshop. They.

They did move, but they did not blend with the scene at all.

Technical incompetence. The slime. I. I should mention the slime.

What's the mention of the slime?

There's obviously movie slime.

Of course.

Charles Band, cheap producer that he is, did not want to waste space and wait on an Airplane to fly it from Hollywood. So he just said, fuck it. We'll just make it in Italy.

Yeah, we'll just make Italian slime.

And then they made Italian slime and it stunk.

Oh, no.

It was made from, like, all natural ingredients, and they added this other type of ingredients to, like, really thicken it up, like you would do. But once they, like, added the water and.

Because natural ingredients gave it, like, a shelf life of time, and since they only had so much by the end of the shoot, it went completely rancid.

Oh, no.

So a lot of the reactions that you see from the actors regarding the slime, Completely genuine. It was horrible, apparently.

Gross. That seems like some technical incompetence. Do we want to adjust our.

One, give it a bump. To give it a slimy bump. Three, rancid. Slimy bump. No, two is fine. Chill out. Relax. What if this thing scores?

We ended up giving from beyond a 66, two out of three, which is exactly the score that it has on IMDb.

Oh, dear. This were a different show, we'd be drinking right now.

We would be. Rotten Tomato, 73% critical, 70% audience, 60 on Metacritic, three and a half on Letterboxd. So we're a little low based on all those, but I think we were scoring on a different. A different scale here.

I think so, too. And arbitrarily, it did just fine.

Yeah, arbitrarily, Just fine. But would I recommend it? Absolutely.

Absolutely. No hesitation.

You know, if you're into that horny, slimy kind of thing. But that has been from beyond. I want to know, what are we talking about next week?

Well, I am so happy that you asked. Let me just put all this information in our ar.

Two weeks.

Oh, boy.

Oh, boy, oh, boy. What does oh, boy mean?

It's something that had a pop up eventually, and I'm so happy that it did now. Bryan, are you ready?

I'm ready as I'll ever be.

We need to introduce a new character to the show for the next episode, I think.

Okay.

Okay, now we're talking.

I avoid this man.

So German.

Yeah. He fights critics, he yells at people a lot.

He's a terrible filmmaker, he's controversial, and I've never been so excited to watch and talk about a movie.

Oh, this is very exciting.

This is very exciting.

All right. Yeah, I'm. I'm fully torqued.

Let's go next episode. Find out if Bryan gets untorqued while we talk about alone in the dark.

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I don't don't want to.

Mortgages. Iras. We're adults. We watch movies at 10 o'.

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Iras.

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Bryan, do you have anything else?

That is it for me.

Fantastic. Thank you guys so much for listening. Thanks for hanging out with us. You are all the absolute best. Except for the one.

You're sitting across from him at the bar, you're having a nice pint, and you're talking about life. And then his pineal gland enlarges and his little pineal gland pops out of his forehead.

And it's a lot like the little alien thing that pops out of John Hurt's chest in Alien. Except this time it looks at you and it says, "Good Journey!"