Rated: NR    Runtime: 170 mins.
WEIRD CINEMA: AN H.P. LOVECRAFT DOUBLE FEATURE

FROM BEYOND
The team behind THE RE-ANIMATOR, director Stuart Gordon and start Jeffery Combs, re-teamed for this 1986 follow-up. “The film is also an H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, although it strays even further from the original seven-page story about a scientist who has built, in his attic laboratory, a machine that ‘wakes a thsouand sleeping senses’ which are inherited ‘from aeons of evolution from the state of detatched electrons to the state of organic humanity.’ Once awaked, these organs reveal a terrifying multitude of organisms that crowd the air around us, writhing in a dimension outside time and space. Advancing RE-ANIMATOR’s mercurial balance between the ludicrious and the macabre, FROM BEYOND’s considerably more sophisticated and less tongue-in-cheek than its more popular precursor and one of the most committed and psychedelic of Lovecraft adapations. “ – 92Y Tribeca. Dir: Stuart Gordon. Starring Jeffery Combs, Barbara Crampton and Jeffery Foree. 1986. 35mm. 80 mins. 9:15pm

THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS
FILMMAKERS IN PERSON! Meticulously and lovingly crafted by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, this B&W throwback tells the story of a skeptical folklorist from Miskatonic University investigating horrors beyond his deepest imagination in rural Vermont. Please note: THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS will play alongside the filmmakers’ previous adaptation, THE CALL OF CTHULU, at the San Rafael Film Center on 8/3. Dir: Sean Branney. Starring Stephen Blackehart, Barry Lynch and Autumn Wendel. 2011. Digital. 90 mins. 7pm