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A small note of interest: I attended the Nothing Shocking horror festival around 1991 at the Scala cinema Kings Cross and actuall won the right hand of the Bride from this film that had been hacked off on the last day of shooting by a member of the FX crew - I still have it.... Read review
Brian Yuzna'sBride of Re-Animator(1990) was one of the last hurrahs for ... more
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depravity gets a fresh injection with this bloody sequel to the film that Re-animated the horror film in the 1980's. With more spectacular gut-wrenching effects, and unimaginable terrors lurking in the basement, the sickest man in science is back.Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain make a startling discovery: not only can serum reanimate the dead, but when mixed with a rare fluid, it can bring limbs back to life - completely independent of body and brain! With the power to 'create' new life comes a chance to bring back Dan's former fiance from the dead. But when a vial falls into the wrong hands, a gore fest ensues with severed limbs and zombies galore!
Brian Yuzna'sBride of Re-Animator(1990) was one of the last hurrahs for ... more
special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor,Re-Animator,Brideis very loosely based on HP Lovecraft's stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He and his agonisingly liberal sidekick Cain have discovered an improvement on their original serum--now they can not only bring the dead back to life but also assemble them from parts first.Jeffrey Combs gives a wonderfully dour performance as West, not even cracking a smile when a creature he has concocted from fingers and an eye-ball is running around the room unseen by a pestering detective. This is the sort of film that constantly escalates its macabre elements--the surviving villain of the first film has been left as simply an animated head, but that does not stop him pursuing his revenge on West, nor finding ways of using West's new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun.On the DVD:Bride of Re-Animatoris presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and its Dolby 2.0 does what little can be done with the muddy soundtrack, but is rather better with the jauntily creepy score. The only special features on this Tartan issue are the trailer, the director's production notes and a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies. --Roz Kaveney
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Brian Yuzna'sBride of Re-Animator(1990) was one of the last hurrahs for ... more
special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor,Re-Animator,Brideis very loosely based on HP Lovecraft's stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He and his agonisingly liberal sidekick Cain have discovered an improvement on their original serum--now they can not only bring the dead back to life but also assemble them from parts first.Jeffrey Combs gives a wonderfully dour performance as West, not even cracking a smile when a creature he has concocted from fingers and an eye-ball is running around the room unseen by a pestering detective. This is the sort of film that constantly escalates its macabre elements--the surviving villain of the first film has been left as simply an animated head, but that does not stop him pursuing his revenge on West, nor finding ways of using West's new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun.On the DVD:Bride of Re-Animatoris presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and its Dolby 2.0 does what little can be done with the muddy soundtrack, but is rather better with the jauntily creepy score. The only special features on this Tartan issue are the trailer, the director's production notes and a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies. --Roz Kaveney
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Production Year: 1998 - Horror - Director: Steve Miner - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Michelle Williams, Adam Arkin, Adam Hann-Byrd, Janet Leigh, L.L. Cool J.
Advantages: Jeffrey Combs Disadvantages: Not as original as the first
...I attended the Nothing Shocking horror festival around 1991 at the Scala cinema Kings Cross and actuall won the right hand of the Bride from this film that had been hacked off on the last day of shooting by a member of the FX crew - I still have it. ... more
"The Re-Animator's back in this gory sequel. This time, the twisted Dr. Herbert West (Jeffery Combs) is aiming not just to restore life, but to create it from spare body parts. His warped genius has given birth to hideous and disgusting combinations, both animal and human, but his desire to create an entire woman from assorted limbs and organs has eluded him--until now. What follows is plenty of morbid mayhem."
For anyone unfamiliar with the original Re-Animator film - it expanded on a short HP Lovecraft story and told of Dr Herbert West arrival at medical college with ideas about the resurrection of dead tissue with a serum he had, he soon has his new housemate involved in his experiments and the film ends with his housemates girlfriend and father dead along with Wests nemesis.
This films follows on from the events of the first with both doctors practising surgery in a wartorn country - on their return to the US Herbert sets about resurrecting the dead girlfriend of his colleague Dan - along the way his nemesis from the original returns to hamper his attempts and there is a lot of dark slapstick involving Wests botched experiments - hands with eyes on the hand of its fingers and limbs attached to limbs like spiders - and keeping these a secret from outsiders.
It is a very gory film and very enjoyable but compared to the original, directed by the great Stuart Gordon (Fortress, Dolls), the new director Brian Yuzna (he provided the special FX for the first film) dwells too much on the dark comedy whereas the original was just directed in a darkly humorous way. The realism of the original has gone also - the original was the first horror film that ended with the hero Dan going into shock rather than just stepping out into the sunset all bloodied but unbeaten.
The ace up this films sleeve is the excellent Jeffrey Combs - an actor that most people know but are unaware of - he has a very original acting style and is always good value. If he hadnt been involved in this sequel then I would not have bothered with it.
If you have seen the first film and enjoyed it then this is still worth watching for Jeffrey alone but it isnt like the usual cash in sequel and possesses 100 times more imagination than the sequels churned out by mainstream Hollywood.
Brian Yuzna went on after this film to make a truly classic horror film - Society - which I wont go into here but if it ever shows up on late night TV or you have a chance to see it any other way then give it a try as you wont have seen anything like it before.
A small note of interest: I attended the Nothing Shocking horror festival around 1991 at the Scala cinema Kings Cross and actuall won the right hand of the Bride from this film that had been hacked off on the last day of shooting by a member of the FX crew - I still have it.
The sequel to 'Re-Animator' and five years on the horror begins all over again...
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
PALISADES TARTAN; FUSION MEDIA SALES
Release date
27/01/2003
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
TVD 3404
Barcode
5023965340429
Screenwriter
Woody Keith
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Star And Director Filmographies, Scene Selection, Original Theatrical Trailer, Brian Yuzna Production Notes, Mark Kermode Film Notes, Tartan Terror Trailer Reel
Aspect Ratio
Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital English
DVD Description
The Re-Animator's back in this gory sequel. This time, the twisted Dr. Herbert West (Jeffery Combs) is aiming not just to restore life, but to create it from spare body parts. His warped genius has given birth to hideous and disgusting combinations, both animal and human, but his desire to create an entire woman from assorted limbs and organs has eluded him--until now. What follows is plenty of morbid mayhem.
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