The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel universe.
Practical Effects
Gordon's team outdid themselves—every creature is tactile nightmare fuel
Acting
Jeffrey Combs commits harder than any actor has a right to
Direction
Gordon translates Lovecraft's unfilmable cosmic horror into sticky, visceral cinema
Director
Stuart Gordon
Jeffrey Combs
Crawford Tillinghast
Barbara Crampton
Dr. Katherine McMichaels
Ken Foree
Buford 'Bubba' Brownlee
Ted Sorel
Dr. Edward Pretorius
Carolyn Purdy-Gordon
Dr. Roberta Bloch
Bunny Summers
Neighbor Lady
Bruce McGuire
Jordan Fields
Del Russel
Ambulance Driver
Dale Wyatt
Paramedic
Andrew Lord Miller
Patient - Strait Jacket
Albert Band
Drunk (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stuart Gordon made this immediately after Re-Animator using largely the same crew and cast, including Barbara Crampton who reportedly took the role specifically to escape being typecast as the 'good girl.'
The film adapts Lovecraft's 1926 story that he considered unfilmable—Gordon's solution was to make the invisible visible through sheer disgusting commitment to practical effects, creating a template for cosmic horror cinema.
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