Last time I reviewed Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice here on Horrors from the Netflix. Next in my queue is a film inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name: From Beyond. Perfect for Halloween … or for sex fetishists.

Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments or suggest a Netflix instant streaming film that you’re curious about but would never, ever watch. (I’ll do that for you.)

In 1986, Stuart Gordon directed this half-pornographic, half-neon monster guts movie that teeters between half-stupid and half-hilarious. The hilarity mostly rests with Jeffrey Comb’s lead performance as Dr. Crawford Tillinghast, who co-discovers a parallel realm using a machine called the Resonator. Flipping a switch stimulates the pineal gland in the brain, allowing the experimenter to see and feel an alternate dimension populated by creatures drawn to blood and light. When Crawford’s overzealous colleague Dr. Edward Pretorious (actor Ted Sorel) refuses to terminate the process, a horrible being that Crawford later deems “It” swallows his head, leaving a mutilated corpse and unidentifiable goo as the only evidence.

Some time later, a psychiatrist named Dr. Katherine McMichaels (Barbara Crampton) visits Crawford, who was tossed in a mental institution after making outlandish claims of head-eating demons and creepy crawly things. Katherine, who implements a bold new approach in dealing with schizophrenics (aka not condemning them to a vegetable state through intense drug and electroshock therapy), negotiates Crawford’s freedom under one condition: She wants him to repeat and relive the experiment that caused his breakdown.

From Beyond is a wild horror show, filled with dumb one-liners (“It’s running itself!”) and ridiculous scenarios, from characters wearing oddly selected outfits to the house number reading “666.” The film reveals itself as a porno early on, but as uncouth as From Beyond is, it’s also fun to watch. Whether the director has created a cheesy horror classic or an embarrassment (it’s not hard to outsmart Gordon or these characters) is hard to say. The music is loudly dramatic (Richard Band’s score won for Best Original Soundtrack at the Catalonian International Film Festival) and Combs’ exaggerated delivery is satisfying, but a good majority of the acting is awful and underplayed, and the film could have ended safely halfway through. Instead, the setting moves to a hospital for several gross sequences before returning to the house of the incident. At least this lets us see a hobo freak out.

If you can settle with a disgusting movie that lathers on hardcore sexual fantasies as often as it does cheap but awesome-looking gore (the film also took home a film festival award for Best Special Effects), then From Beyond will give you a few good laughs and none of the traumatizing baggage … as long as you’re not into any of the weird stuff yourself.