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Summary: Good, but where's the gore?
Review: In the making-of, Director Brian Yuzna tells us that there's less gore in that movie than the previous two and it shows. In fact, that (and the bad acting from most of the actors) keeps the movie from becoming truly great. Otherwise, it's a fun movie that never gets dull but never acheives greatness either.The DVD itself is of good quality for such a movie. Good picture quality, sound is ok, there are a short making-of, a director commentary and trailers, and the music video is so bad it's a laugh. Because of its low price, it's worth a try if you're a fan of the series.
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Summary: Finally, a real sequel to a classic splatter film!
Review: In this reviewers humble opinion, Beyond Re-Animator was done with great respect to the original Re-Animator. It basically picks up right where Re-Animator left off, so no real need to see Bride of Re-Animator if you haven't (which, by the way was horrible in my opinion). Dr. West is sent to prison for his crimes, and in prison is where the story takes place. I'm not one for giving away plot details that'll ruin the movie, but I do know this, if you're a fan in ANY WAY of the original Re-Animator this is a MUST SEE for you.
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Summary: Same ingredients for the same recipe ! A good sequel !
Review: It's back ! And if you liked the 2 first movies, go for this 3rd one, I don't think you will be disappointed. You know the ingedients..Funny and gore. The SFX are signed by Screaming Mad George as usual and Yuzna is the director for the Fantastic Factory(DAGON rules). I was not disappointed at all. Jeffrey Combs is still the same MAD DOCTOR and ready as ever to raise the dead. The spannish actors are quite bad and you don't know why Dr West is in a jail in Spain but who cares ! Or maybe they try to let us believe we are in USA but well, there is a Police car in a scene not very US style ;) Anyway It's a cool sequel.
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Summary: The series is dead.
Review: It's clear after this one, that Brian Yuzna does not have what it takes to make an extermely good Re-Animator movie. This makes the passable "Bride of Re-Animator" look a classic. I probably would have forgiven the fact that this was made in Spain, had any of the actors, had at least been decent.I know Brian Yuzna was working with a limited budget, but that's no excuse for a script full of rehashes. Believe me, it takes more than Jeffrey Combs chewing scenery and a few gore scenes to make a good Re-Animator flick.It also pains me how silly some of these reviewers are, if somebody dosen't like the movie that you like, then that's their prerogative. Everyone has their own opinion, respect it.
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Summary: Dissapointing Sequel
Review: Jeffrey Combs returns as the very mad Dr Herbet West is this lame sequel to the original classic. Combs is terrific as usual and deserves a better movie. This one just uses the plot of the original movie but changes the setting to a prison. Gore hounds might enjoy it- but the effect are just ok. The DVD includes a hysterical music video that you have to see to believe. The making of segment is mostly in Spanish ( the film was made in Barcelona) with out English subtitles!
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Summary: sad attempt at a sequel
Review: Not even the great Jeffrey Combs can save this pathetic rehash. The script --- what there is of it --- not only betrays the previous RE-ANIMATOR films; it also betrays itself. I'll return to this point. The set-up is a rip-off of the classic Hammer film REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN: wide-eyed young medico wants to work with 'mad' scientist. The writers cross this with FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL by confining the action to Herbert West's prison. And that's where all comparison to classics ends. As a boy, young Howard Phillips (ouch!) sees his sister murdered by an escaped experiment of West's. He then sees West arrested, and a lifelong obsession is born. What makes this sequence so unpleasant is the filmmakers' idea of normal brother-sister horseplay. The sister is a buxom twentysomething, and has no problems running around in front of her pubescent brother in a silk teddy. Wait, it gets even better. She also finds it screamingly funny to wrap her thighs around his neck and hold him captive. Paints a pretty picture of the young doctor-to-be's home life, doesn't it? The whole purpose of this is to set up a ridiculous climax (sorry) in which Dr. Phillips' reanimated girlfriend, burdened with the soul of a sadistic warden (more on this later), tries to throttle him with her thighs a la Xenia Onatopp from GOLDENEYE. Okay, Dr. Phillips wangles an apppointment to West's prison and requests him as surgical assistant. There he learns his idol has learned the reason for his previous' experiments' failure. It seems that the re-agent only brings the cells back to life. A donor must be electrocuted to concentrate the MPE (a form of jargon energy that directs cellular cooperation) in the hypothalamus, from which it can be extracted and stored in what appears to be a flashbulb. Without this MPE, the reanimated creature is savagely mindless. (Thought question: so how did Dr. Hill retain his intelligence in the first RE-ANIMATOR?) Since West's and Phillips' first reanimation attempt (long before the plot introduces MPE) is on a religious maniac named Moses who retains his personality without benefit of a Flashbulb O' Soul, BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR neatly betrays its own logic, as well as that of the earlier, superior films. (Belive me, even BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR looks like high art next to this turkey.) Add into the mix Laura Olney, a sleazy but shapely reporter who sleeps with Phillips only to extract information from him and a stereotyped sadistic prison warden. The warden murders Laura, so Phillips gives her a big dose of reagent. However, she needs MPE to escape becoming a raving Thing, so West electrocutes the warden and gives Laura his MPE. Although West has explained that this energy is completely neutral (he even suggests giving Laura rat MPE to jump-start her brain), the warden's energy suddenly gives her his personality. We can always tell when Laura will start acting like the creep, because the filmmakers obligingly send a wave of bladder effects up her body. Then the warden is reanimated, and he too has his own personality even though he's given rat MPE. (Sounds redundant.) During a massive prison riot, what little plot and credibility is left completely degenerates into fountains of gore, screaming, and sadistic pseudo-sex scenes between Dr. Phillips and Laura-channeling-the-warden. The FX are gross and laughable. One can only howl at a reanimated torso that flies through space as if wearing a jet pack. The performances range from adequate to annoying --- adult Dr. Phillips being the worst offender. Even Combs stalks through the film wearing an almost perpetual grimace of repugnance, his mouth sucked into a sphincter-like expression of disgust. I can't blame him. Laura was fairly well-played, considering the writers made hash of her character. Even the music, a funereally-paced rehash of Richard Band's hilarious original score, is lackluster. All in all, BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR is beyond tolerance. Monogram made better mad doctor movies than this inane, inept, and inelegant sequel to one of the best horror films of the last 30 years.
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Summary: Beyond Redemption!!
Review: Not only is this a horrible sequal but a horrible film. Jeffrey Combs is the ONLY thing that makes this film palatable. Any scene that he is not in is truly boring and contrived. This is like a bad episode of OZ crossed with a horrible straight to video quickie. Just awful...absolutely awful.
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Summary: Phhhffft...its good!!!
Review: Reading some of these reviews, I was aghast. Let us not overlook, good people, the fact that a low budget, Spanish film co. named 'Fantastic factory" had to step in and bankroll this project before it could see the light of day. Normally, these are circumstances that spell dire misfortune for any film. However, in the case of this film, it was a blessing. Look, this is the third (and long overdue, I might add ) chapter of a series that was begun in 1985. The gore and the insanity are very much intact in this installment, and the last half hour equals anything the original film had to offer. Yes,as a total and complete fan I'll be the very first to admit that the original "Re-animator" is still the best, but after the dissapointing "Bride of Reanimator", this movie is a breath of fresh air. Jeffrey Combs is terrific, and the arcane situations and visuals more than make up for the fact that the supporting actors are not that talented. Overall, as these films go, this chapter deserves its kudos for being a legitimate, enjoyable coda to a series that has redefined horror for many fans. I tip my hat to all involved!!!
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Summary: Phhhffft...its good!!!
Review: Reading some of these reviews, I was aghast. Let us not overlook, good people, the fact that a low budget, Spanish film co. named 'Fantastic factory" had to step in and bankroll this project before it could see the light of day. Normally, these are circumstances that spell dire misfortune for any film. However, in the case of this film, it was a blessing. Look, this is the third (and long overdue, I might add ) chapter of a series that was begun in 1985. The gore and the insanity are very much intact in this installment, and the last half hour equals anything the original film had to offer. Yes,as a total and complete fan I'll be the very first to admit that the original "Re-animator" is still the best, but after the dissapointing "Bride of Reanimator", this movie is a breath of fresh air. Jeffrey Combs is terrific, and the arcane situations and visuals more than make up for the fact that the supporting actors are not that talented. Overall, as these films go, this chapter deserves its kudos for being a legitimate, enjoyable coda to a series that has redefined horror for many fans. I tip my hat to all involved!!!
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Summary: Solid Third Entry in the Series
Review: The first Re-animator is a classic. One of the best horror movies ever made. Period. THE best H.P. Lovecraft adaption. The sequel, Bride of Re-animator, is regarded as not very good, even cheesey. For me I think it's alright. This newer third in the Re-animator series is getting a reputation. I rate it easily better than Bride of Re-animator but not as good as the first. Herbert West has been incarcerated for the past 14 years for the Miskatonic University massacre. He gets out and continues his work on reviving the dead through a serum. What makes this film good is the modern look of it. It looks like it was made in the millenium (aka the year 2000 AD or after). Jeffry Combs is always a good genre actor. Also check out his work in Lurking Fear and Castle Freak. Another staple of Re-animator is the T & A. There are two hot chicks that bare their (...) in this neat flick. The special effects, barring a battery-operated toy-looking rat (possibly intentional) are convincing enough. The gore is extreme and over the top. Horror in this day and age are forgettable, trendy and over the top gorefests. What distinguishes this from say, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake is that this has a (dark) sense of humor and didn't lose too many fans of "film blasphemy." A remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre is film blasphemy. Hell, the Texas film before that with Leatherface in drag was better than the remake. However, I don't think too many diehard H.P. Lovecraft adaption and diehards who are a fan of the Re-animator series would mind another in the series, even morso to make up for the second's shortcomings. I am even looking forward to a possible fourth entry in the series. I am such a big fan of this movie I have a legitimate poster of it in my bedroom. I was so sure I would like this movie I actually bought and hung the poster before I saw the movie. Herbert West is one of the greatest horror movie villains of all time.
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