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The Resonator

The Resonator is an American horror and science fiction streaming miniseries produced by Full Moon Features, consisting of six episodes released between January 1, 2021 and January 1, 2022.¹^•² It follows Miskatonic University student Crawford Tillinghast, who completes his late father's work on the Resonator, an inter-dimensional device that opens doorways to other worlds, with deadly results.³ The series is based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story "From Beyond" and serves as a sequel to director Stuart Gordon's 1986 feature film From Beyond, which was itself based on the same 1920 story.⁴

Key fact	Detail
Format	Six-episode streaming miniseries, one season, horror and science fiction¹
Run	January 1, 2021 to January 1, 2022; status ended¹
Created by	Charles Band and William Butler; Butler directed and wrote⁴^•⁵
Source material	H.P. Lovecraft's short story "From Beyond"; sequel to the 1986 film From Beyond⁴
Production	Full Moon Features, in association with Candy Bar LLC¹^•⁴
Lead cast	Dane Oliver (Crawford Tillinghast), Michael Paré (Professor Wallace), Amanda Wyss (Professor McMichaels), Josh Cole (Herbert West)⁵
IMDb rating	6.4/10 from 44 votes for the miniseries⁶

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Premise and story

The series is set at the fictional Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts, a location familiar from Lovecraft's fiction. Crawford Tillinghast, a visionary student, follows in his late father's footsteps and becomes obsessed with completing the Resonator, a machine that allows one to experience multiple dimensions and encounter the creatures dwelling in them. With the help of his closest friends he gets the machine running, and it releases murderous creatures into the world while also affecting his own reality.³^•⁷

From the third episode onward the story introduces Herbert West, the mad med student with his glowing green reagent, a character drawn from the Re-Animator films associated with Stuart Gordon. West injects his reagent into corpses on campus, and the living dead are loose in the final episodes.³ The closing episode, "Edge of the Apocalypse", is described as a tribute to the films of Stuart Gordon, who died in 2017.³

Episodes

The six episodes, with runtimes in minutes as listed by TheTVDB:²

"Miskatonic U" (January 1, 2021, 39 minutes)
"Destination Beyond" (January 1, 2021, 29 minutes)
"The Rise of Katthogra" (January 1, 2022, 28 minutes)
"Herbert West Returns" (January 1, 2022, 25 minutes)
"Curse of the Re-Animator" (January 1, 2022, 25 minutes)
"Edge of the Apocalypse", the series finale (January 1, 2022, 28 minutes)

In "Destination Beyond", Crawford tries to recalibrate the machine after a malfunction that leads to Mara being attacked by otherworldly creatures, and he begins to suspect that Professor Wallace has a sinister agenda when the teacher pays an unexpected visit.³

Production and release

The series was created by producer Charles Band and writer-director William Butler, and produced by Full Moon Features in association with Candy Bar LLC.⁴^•⁵ According to Full Moon, the film was released on February 26, 2021 on the Full Moon Features channel and app and the Full Moon Amazon Prime channel, as part of a slate in which the company shot a new feature film every month for the rest of the year.⁸

The first two episodes were originally shot as episodes of a proposed series for Full Moon's streaming service, centered on the son of the protagonist of From Beyond; they were later combined into a feature-length film, The Resonator: Miskatonic U, for release on DVD and Blu-ray.⁹ The feature version runs about 69 minutes and carries a TV-14 rating on some platforms and TV-MA on others.¹⁰^•¹¹ It streams on Tubi and can be bought or rented on Amazon Video.¹⁰

Cast and crew

Dane Oliver plays Crawford Tillinghast, with Michael Paré as Professor Wallace, Amanda Wyss as Professor McMichaels, Christina Hélène Braa as Mara Esteban, Amanda Jones as Carrie Mitchel, Jeffrey Byron as Professor Tillinghast, and Josh Cole as Herbert West.⁵^•⁶ William Butler directed, wrote, and handled production design; Justin Jones was cinematographer, Alex Nicolaou edited, Richard Band composed the original music, and Charles Band produced, with Douglas Cambron, Avery Guerra, and Dustin Hubbard as executive producers.⁵^•¹²

Reception

The miniseries holds an IMDb rating of 6.4/10 from 44 votes, while the combined feature version of the first two episodes holds 4.8/10 from 577 votes on IMDb.⁶^•¹³ Reviewers noted its low budget and episodic origins. A Nerdly review found the episodic structure noticeable but not damaging, praised the Resonator device design, and criticized the CGI effects, including what it called a bottom-of-the-barrel CGI decapitation, rating the feature 3.5 out of 5.⁹ The Moria review site described it as a Lovecraft adaptation from Charles Band's Full Moon Features and rated it two stars.¹⁴

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Genre web series: horror, thriller, science fiction, and mystery

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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