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Summary: Dr. West creates zombies in prison.
Review: Finally for all you Re-Animator (1985) fans, a third film has been made. Filmed in Spain. The second film was BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR (1990). Jeffery Combs is back as "Herbert West". Two boys are camping out in the yard. Suddenly Howard (Tommy Dean Musset) tells the other boy a story about someone keeping body parts. He shows him an eye in a cup. Lighning and thunder materialize. The mother (Barbara Elorrietta) in the house is killed by a jawless zombie (Angel Plana) as Howard watches in horror. The zombie was another one of Dr. West's experiments, so Dr. West is arrested and put into the police car. But before he leaves, the vital green luminous shot is left for the boy. Thirteen years later, Howard (Jason Berry) is now a doctor and visit Dr. West in prison. Dr. West still conducts his electrical shock experiments, but this time on rats. When Howard shows Dr. West, the luminous shot he left behind thirteen years ago, he can't wait to see if the luminous serum still works. Of course it does and so the campy zombie fun begins again. Lolo Herrero plays "Sergeant Moncho". Enrique Arce plays "Cabrera". Simon Andreu plays "Warden". DVD includes an "Easter Egg". Click your down button on the remote. When "Lions Gate Films" logo appears, click on this. You will see trailers for Beyond Re-Animator (2003), Cabin Fever, and Faust--Love of the Damned. Extra include "Move Your Dead Bones" music video. Making of Re-Animator documentary.
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Summary: Yuzna and Combs return with a vengeance
Review: For fans of the Re-Animator series (and there are many) the wait is finally over. 13 years after directing Bride of Re-Animator Brian Yuzna returns with another satisfying sequel. Beyond Re-Animator opens with an interesting 10-minute prologue that shows one of Herbert West's re-animated corpses getting loose and killing a teenage girl in the suburbs. This sequel is set 13 years after those events where West is now in jail serving a sentence for conspiracy to commit murder. A young doctor by the name of Howard becomes infatuated with West's work and wants to assist him to further his research which attempts to explain rational behaviour. I was pleasantly surprised by the high quality of this sequel especially considering the many negative reviews I read of this film. Yes this was filmed in Spain on a limited budget and none of the same actors (except for Jeffrey Combs) return but what should we expect? 13 years had gone by since the last entry. As long as Combs returns this series will do just fine. He's great here as usual, in his trademark subdued style. I marvel at his ability to play a role of someone who is stone-faced and dead serious but at the same time funny as hell. Combs is surrounded by many other interesting characters including the young doctor, a pretty reporter and the requisite sadistic prison warden although none of them do nearly as good an acting job as he does. Despite the lower budget he had to work with, Yuzna managed to make this film look very stylish (similarly to Stuart Gordon's Dagon). Almost the entire movie takes place inside of a prison, lending the film a claustrophobic feel. The last half hour is very fast paced and chaotic for as usual West's experiments go horribly wrong. Re-Animated corpses are everywhere, inmates break loose of their cells as prison guards try to fight them off, the whole jail becomes a riot act. Brian Yuzna certainly went all out with this finale. This was a great film that is injected with all the right doses of gore, mayhem and humour that have been trademarks of the series.
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Summary: Great comeback for Herbert West!
Review: Herbert West ( Jeffery Combs) has been in prison for 14 years since his last adventure in " Bride of Re-Animator", he has discovered a new way of bringing the dead back to life with his secret experiments and starts to turn the prison into a nightmare.
Very entertaining, gory and humorous sequel to the 1985 horror classic, very well acted and watch for the hilarious ending credit sequence.
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Summary: This Experiment is Over!!!
Review: Herbert West is a man on the cutting edge of science. He's revolutionized thought as he's walked that fine line between experimentation and "morality," bringing the dead back from the grave and all the while proving that demise is merely a disease and not a functional piece of punctuation added to the end of the living equation. He's taken that a step further, too, proving that life exists in every portion of the whole and that each specimen he collects can be introduced to his re-agent and returned from the grave. A combination of eyes and a few fingers, an organ stew with limbs; he's been there and he's done that with a type of "morbid doodling" that has been interesting to watch. And now, 13 years after he was imprisoned for his achievements, he's found the very thing that tells the cells of the body to grow. While its not reflected here, this movie actually premiered on the Sci-Fi network months before it was released on VHS or on DVD, and many of these reviews are for it. I know that because I watched it myself, seeing the things that were cut out and left incomplete before checking this page for the DVD release date. When I did I also noticed the lack of gore in some places because it had been cut for television, the lack of a certain part of the male anatomy fighting a rat at the end because it could be considered tasteless, and I also noticed waves in the story. So, those were pitches for an incomplete viewing. Still, the negative reviews do have a point and that is that you might not enjoy this if you don't have the right mindset. In order to actually enjoy yourself and what this brings to the table, you have to be able to do a few things, and one of those things is to tell yourself that this is the story of Herbert West. While many can't accept this fact, the first in the series has been done, is long gone, and its never going to be done again. Everything after-the-fact is going to seem like a sequel and you aren't going to find a carbon copy of the original. You also aren't going to get the same actors (save the most wondrous one, Jeffrey Combs, who is crucial to this series) and you are going to have some problems due to budget restraints. Still, if you liked the series itself, you should be happy if you've followed the story this far because the third chapter fits in rather well. While the plot of the movie is a little sketchy if you catch bits and pieces of it and drifts a tad when you get toward the end, its actually not that bad of a theory when you get down to it. As Dr. West points out, the human body loses three to four grams of weight when it dies. According to him, this NPE, or Nano Plasmic Energy, is the very building block of what makes life "alive." It tells the cells to grow, making the byproduct who and what it is because it could very well be the component many dub a soul. Accordingly, NPE can overcome many of the problems Dr. West has had in the past with the reanimated monstrosities he's created, allowing him to endow true life to the things he's returning to this side of living. It works better than the Thorazine he's been using to sedate them, after all, or the straight jackets he's used to keep them in check. The only thing is that he gets excited and, as everyone knows, nothing works exactly as the scientist pictures it because this always has been an on-going process As far the other portions of the movie goes, it goes from "not that bad" to "impressive, considering the budget."
As far as the gore, there are some good examples of prosthetic effects - considering the amount of gore has been stepped down. You have some blood that rushes out really well, some bodies stripping themselves down to base elements, and you have other "portions" popping up. You do have some cheaper CGI sometimes taking up residence, too, but those aren't really a bother because this is somewhat of a comedy founded in the science of slapstick horror. Besides, a male portion of the anatomy fighting off a rat at the end is pretty funny stuff.
As far as acting goes, you get what you expect. You have some people that are bad, the great Jeffrey Combs that is always on because he is Herbert West to everyone following the series, and you have some people in the middle. Still, your setting, a jailhouse, allows some of that to be overlooked because you aren't exactly expecting a drove of great people in that place.
And, as far as the little Lovecraft joke in the name Howard Phillips, I got a laugh.
Also, watching the commentary "special feature", I noticed that IT'S A CUT MOVIE. With some scenes missing that you are shown in the director's commentary, you know it was cut before having an American release That's always sad, too, and it also shows what a translation to English will often get you - despite the R rating. If you want to gage whether or not you might like it, you should simply ask yourself what you thought of the last two as a whole and then go from there. You should also ask yourself what you want to see in the movie, what its all about, and if you're going to see the undead or something more try to take place. As I said before, it is the story of Herbert West thirteen years after he's gone to jail, his partner now turned state's evidence, so things are going to be different. Still, Jeffrey Combs is Jeffrey Combs and that, at the end of the day, that sells itself to me.
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Summary: 2 reasons
Review: I am a huge fan of the written works of the great H.P. Lovecraft. The only two reasons to see this film are:
The gorgeous and sexy as hell Elsa Pataky,
and
The outtake during the credits of the mouse and the amputated penis fighting each other.
You have to see it to believe it.
For a real Lovecraft adaptation, I recommend Evil Dead, Castle Freak, or even the Hellraiser movies.
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Summary: i wish it was better
Review: I just bought and finished watching Beyond Reanimator. I was expecting to see a more quality movie when I bought this, with cooler deaths, funnier dialog, and a more interesting story. Beyond Reanimator had all the ingredients to make a fantastic movie, I think (it seems apparent) that alot was not planned through, aspects were rushed and not all involved were passionate about creating this movie. If you really love the reanimator series buy it maybe you won't be dissapointed it's only 13 dollars, if you only like the original reanimator you may want to skip even renting this movie. -I sold my copy for six bucks at Coconuts.
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Summary: Get a life, DEADBEATS! May Herbert West find your graves...
Review: I just purchased this DVD and am amazed to see all the negative comments regarding this jolly great film. This movie expands on all we've seen in the previous two and takes us to new heights at a CRAZY prison. And though it does have it's bad acting, silly effects, loose ends, etc., we still get WEST! Jeffrey Combs is the BEST mad scientist EVER! You people who want a Russell Crowe movie, GET LOST! You have no sense of humor, nor have you seen the REALLY bad horror films that exist like "Mimic 2." If you've seen the first two movies, just buy or rent this one. It won't disappoint.
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Summary: Gratuitious but bland
Review: I saw BEYOND REANIMATOR on print during its limited midnight run at Sunset 5 in Los Angeles. I left the theater disappointed. It was gratuitious and done in poor taste, utterly lame in comparison to Stuart Gordon's classic. Don't get me wrong... I love gore... but the story and effects in BEYOND are so gratuitious yet so bland and uninteresting, neither shocking nor fun. BEYOND is as pointless and inane as Mr. Yuzna's earlier FAUST. Perhaps Mr. Yuzna should consider focusing on producing other talented directors...
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Summary: Re-Animator Goes Beyond
Review: I'm quiet happy with the third entry into the Re-Animator series. Brian Yuzna did an amazing job with this film. Brian's direction in the film is interesting. The effects are good, especially an inmates chest exploding. It's exciting seeing Jeffrey Combs return as Herbert West. After viewing it the obvious opinion is to think it's not better than the original, but of course it's not going to be. Over all the fans should be happy,I know I am.
By Justine Ryan
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Summary: Another great sequel to a classic movie.
Review: If you're a fan of the original 'Re-Animator' movie then you'll find plenty here to enjoy. As long as you're happy to see a bit of gore & keep your tongue firmly planted in your cheek then you're sure to enjoy this horror/comedy. Jeffrey Combs is fantastic, as always, in his role as Herbert West....you just can't help but like the maniacal doctor.
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