Not Coming to a Theater Near You is a website devoted to forgotten, neglected, or rarely seen films that deserve a second look. Every October, they feature a daily horror film review, and I had the honor of kicking things off with Stuart Gordon’s From Beyond, a weird, campy adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story that had a profound effect on me when I first saw it on VHS in 1986. The conditions were perfect: My parents were out of town for the weekend; the clerk at the local video store was extremely lenient; and I was thirteen years old – an awkward, gangly hormonal powderkeg. The garish parade of blood-drenched, flesh-bursting, brain eating creatures was as accurate an illustration of my id as anything I’d seen. It will always have a special place in my heart.
