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Films like From Beyond.

From Beyond (1986) reads as Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Phantasm (1979) poster
1. Phantasm1979

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) poster
2. Twilight Zone: The Movie1983

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Santa Sangre (1989) poster
3. Santa Sangre1989

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Jubilee (1978) poster
4. Jubilee1978

Keeps the pitch-dark outlook and the strange, dreamlike logic — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Tin Drum (1979) poster
5. The Tin Drum1979

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Tin Drum —repeat guard1979
6. The Tin Drum — repeat guard1979

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Brain Damage (1988) poster
7. Brain Damage1988

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a running vein of humour.

Nowhere (1997) poster
8. Nowhere1997

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Street Trash (1987) poster
9. Street Trash1987

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook; trades toward a running vein of humour.

Scanners (1981) poster
10. Scanners1981

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tommy (1975) (1975) poster
11. Tommy1975

Keeps the pitch-dark outlook and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969) poster
12. Birds, Orphans and Fools1969

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are From Beyond’s neighbours — where are yours?

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