So, it has been a couple of weeks since the last instalment of Movies From Beyond, and since last time we have been watching a lot of Quantum Leap on Sci-Fi and are eagerly awaiting the release of Cloverfield today.

As you may remember Movies From Beyond is an almost weekly trip to the dark side of movies, we love nothing more than laying on a beanbag eating Pringles watching something unsettling. This week: The Incredible Shrinking Man, Fido and Alice Cooper Live at Montreux…

We were flicking about on our Sky box the other day and happened across the fantastic 1957 classic The Incredible Shrinking Man. The story involved a guy who inadvertently gets enveloped by a radioactive cloud, which funnily enough leaves him looking like a body-glittered podium dancer. The outcome of the radioactivity is that he shrinks to only a couple of inches – there is something really nice about the shaky special effects and blue screen stuff. The second half of the movie revolves around the hero Scott Carey, played by Grant Williams, being trapped in the basement doing a pretty passable impression of Bear Grylls as he hunts for food, climbs stuff and battles a giant spider. Well it isn’t giant really but it is to him, you know what we mean.  

Probably one of the best Zombie movies we have seen for ages is the excellent Fido. If you have wondered what it would be like if the un-dead were domesticated and made into cleaners, this is the movie for you. This movie never really did massive business and sort of snuck out onto DVD, but watch out for Billy Connolly as Fido and Carrie Ann Moss from Matrix pops up as a slight pervy desperate housewife.  

As a special treat we fired up the HD-DVD and caught the fantastic Alice Cooper Live at Montreux. It was one of the first HD discs to be released and it is really great, pin-point picture and excellent sound as the man himself belts out some of his classics like Feed My Frankenstein, Billion Dollar Babies and the classic No More Mr. Nice Guy whilst strutting about on his all leather outfit and face paint. 

[story by Simon Woodley]