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Jeffrey Combs, Jason Barry, Elsa Pataky

For the past 14 years, Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) has been serving his prison sentence for the Miskatonic Massacre. With what scant supplies he has on hand in the prison medical center, Dr. West...( read more  read more... ) has been capable of performing only extremely basic experiments on rats. However, his lack of supplies does not prevent him from uncovering a key element in his re-animation process. When a young doctor (Jason Barry) comes to work at the prison, West uses him to attain the supplies and tools needed to bring his experiments to the next level.

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R, 95 min.

Directed by: Brian Yuzna

Release Date: July 25, 2003

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DVD Release Date: December 30, 2003

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  • SirPant
    September 30, 2009
    SirPant
    Thought this might suck seeing as so long had past and classic horror films are usually followed up with poor sequels. Not here though, you could say this film has re-animated the franchise, I can?t wait for House of re-animator, I really hope they make it!! Jeffrey Combs as west...( read more) nails it again!
  • drblood
    January 27, 2009
    drblood
    This is yet another one of those films that I put off watching for ages because I had the suspicion that it was going to be crap. I didn't watch it when it first came out as a straight-to-DVD release in 2003 and tried my hardest (albeit mostly unsuccessfully) to avoid it when it ...( read more)was shown on TV horror channels ever since. I really didn't want to ruin the happy mid-80s' memories I had of Stuart Gordon's "Re-animator". But, you know how it is, you get bored and eventually spend an hour peeling the security tape off the DVD case and, before you know where you are, the damned thing has somehow got into the player and you're watching it. That's my excuse anyway and has nothing to do with the fact that I got the DVD for $2 from a certain auction site.
    It's now been 18 years since Brian Yuzna took over helming with "Bride of Re-animator" and that was hardly a good film either although, with hinesight, it is a lot better than this. Fabiana Udenio really had more to do with making that film memorable than anything else for me as it really added nothing new. 13 years on from "Bride of Re-animator" Brian Yuzna went the comedy route with "Beyond Re-animator" which doesn't bode well for next year's planned "House of Re-animator" either.
    I can't quite put my finger on why but "Beyond Re-animator" just failed to deliver. Although obviously low-budget, it was a good story, had reasonable amounts of gore, good actors and sexy actresses (especially Elsa Pataky), but it just had the wrong pace and tried hard for humour when it should have gone for scares. Oh and it's a Spanish production so there are a lot of unknown Spanish actors in it in case anyone wondered. That doesn't always doom a movie to failure but I have noticed a trend... which reminds me to stick to Pedro Almodóvar rather than Jess Franco in future too.
    The story is much the same as the other two in the series. Dr Herbert West is still re-animating bodies albeit now from inside a prison where of course he is encarcerated. A new prison doctor arrives who turns out to be a kid who saw the results of Dr West's experiments when one of them killed his sister. Then a reporter turns up who looks just like the boy's sister and there is a love affair thing going on just to bulk out the plot. The reporter turns out to be more interested in "the experiments" than her original prison story and ends up getting more than she bargained for when she is predictably killed by the evil warden and then re-animated herself. That's not much of a spoiler as all this pretty much occurs within the first ten minutes.
    The new spin on things in this movie is that Herbert has now discovered how to harness the "nanoplasma" which leaves the body at death and is responsible for human consciousness. Thus begins a lot of body swapping nonsense, first with a couple of rats and then between different people.
    I kept losing interest when all the quirky prisoners were doing their thing and I lost it even more when I realised that I really wasn't going to see Elsa Pataky (also in "Snakes on a Plane") get totally naked. There is a minor sex scene and one shot of her squashed boob but it was down to the also attractive Raquel Gribler to get hers out instead. And glorious they were too! You'll remember them for a long time, trust me on this.
    A more amusing scene worth mentioning involves a re-animated, dismembered dinkle fighting a rat. It soon stopped being amusing though it must have pleased the director because it also continued throughout the end credits. It wasn't that funny.
    So, apart from Elsa Pataky, there really weren't any great things to mention about this film. Jeffrey Combs does his usual performance but is just too much of a nice guy to instill anything really sinister into the mix... well, that's if you can call his role as Herbert West, a man who re-animates dead bodies, a nice guy! He's certainly more sociable this time round but you know he's still obsessed.
    The ending left the way open for the possible fourth film in the series which I hope doesn't actually come to anything. I really think it's time to give up on this story now. I can't see it going anywhere else except further and further down in quality and it's a shame because the original "Re-animator" was an absolute genre classic.
    Final verdict: Watch it if you want to but don't expect miracles. Herbert West himself could not raise this movie from the dead.
  • 366weirdmovies
    September 25, 2008
    366weirdmovies
    Dr. Herbert West may be serving a life sentence, but when the prison doctor hands him his old glowing green syringe he quickly gets his groove back and starts re-animating corpses once more, leading to another gory holocaust. Jeffery Combs as Dr. West is hammy but in control in ...( read more)this third entry in the series, which captures trangressively comic atmosphere of the insane original better than BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR did.
  • cigaretteburns
    July 23, 2008
    cigaretteburns
    *sigh* I'd like to see Herbert West succeed. Just once!
  • creepfreak
    March 27, 2008
    creepfreak
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  • ythelastman89
    November 18, 2009
    ythelastman89
    It's fun and a great follow up. Jeffrey Combs came off even more bat shit crazy in this and his sarcasm made it all the more funny. I'm glad there wasn't a whole lot of cgi, it didn't even feel like a straight to dvd release. The direction was really good and they got some crazy ...( read more)camera angles thrown in, which added some new absurdity to the story of Herbert West.
  • TheBeginningAndTheEnd
    August 24, 2009
    TheBeginningAndTheEnd
    Much better than Bride of the Re-Animator and pretty impressive special effects for a DTV movie.
  • olivelover101
    August 11, 2009
    olivelover101
    If I remember correctly it was just as gruesome as the original but even more B-moive.
  • ahhh1989
    June 22, 2009
    ahhh1989
    Good gore and humor, but not as good as the first two films.
  • fosterdanielsjr
    June 20, 2009
    fosterdanielsjr
    After the first one, it leaves a little to be desired.

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