Beyond Re-Animator (2003)

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• Jeff "

  
  Well, well, third entry in the Re-Animator franchise and Dr Hebert West is doing what he's doing best, reanimating dead tissue. This is a well executed third entry, and it manages to keep everything that you'd expect from a Re-Animator film. What makes this film worth… More
  Well, well, third entry in the Re-Animator franchise and Dr Hebert West is doing what he's doing best, reanimating dead tissue. This is a well executed third entry, and it manages to keep everything that you'd expect from a Re-Animator film. What makes this film worth watching is the gore itself, beautiful, disgusting and downright off the wall. This film is pure carnage and Re-Animator fans will enjoy this film. A terrific horror comedy, that considering is a third entry to a film that is deemed a horror classic, this film works well at establishing what you'd expect, and it goes beyond that. The films' acting is questionable of course, only Jeffrey Combs as Hebert West, the mad scientist trying to find a cure for death is the only talent4ed actor in this film. Comb's performance delivers, and he makes West one of the best horror villains in the genres history. Of course Beyond Re-Animator is nothing compared to the first, but for a third entry, it's a pretty good one at that. The film will appeal to the fans of the first. Considering that by the second sequel, a franchise looses its spark, Re-Animator hasn't lost anything. The gore and the wacky humor are still there, and the film is pretty entertaining. However considering that I'm such a fan of the original, I think that this third entry keeps every element intact. But of course this third entry will never outdo the original. A good entry in the series, and a memorable horror comedy too.

• xGary X

  
  Dr West continues his research in prison aided by an idealistic young doctor but his seemingly successful new serum contains an unfortunate and unforeseen side effect. Obviously trying to recapture the gory fun of Sam Raimi's early work, Beyond Reanimator's budget clearly… More
  Dr West continues his research in prison aided by an idealistic young doctor but his seemingly successful new serum contains an unfortunate and unforeseen side effect. Obviously trying to recapture the gory fun of Sam Raimi's early work, Beyond Reanimator's budget clearly limits its options but it still remains a tongue in cheek gorefest much in the spirit of the original. Jeffry Combs returns as the obsessive and amoral West and is joined by a no-name cast who gamely dismember each other surrounded by some adequately rendered blood and guts. The main drawback is the fact that the set up is far more effective than the pay off as it descends into novelty gore and nudity coloured by some outright silliness rather than exploring the darker themes of the idea. But if it's a cheap and cheerful horror B-movie that doesn't tax the higher brain functions too much you want, you could do a lot worse.

• Conner R

  
  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… More
  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 camera angles thrown in, which added some new absurdity to the story of Herbert West.

• Anthony L

  
  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… More
  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 nails it again!

• Dr Blood  

  
  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… More
  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 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.

• Greg S

  
  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 this… More
  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 this third entry in the series, which captures trangressively comic atmosphere of the insane original better than BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR did.

• jd c

  
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• Curtis L

  
  This was awesome. It had half of a mexican gangster, a drug addict who shoots up the re-agent and a prison warden who turns into a half rat and gets his penis bitten off and stolen by other rats. Great stuff.

• Jacob P

  
  An interesting gorefest

• John M

  
  "Beyond Re-animator", in my opinion, it is better than the unsatisfying "Bride of the Re-animator": though the present flicks it is nothing spectacular; it is a pretty decent sequel it has better special effects along with a more fluent story and pacing.

• Doctor S

  
  A good first half let down by a gory yet aimless second half. I missed #2 'Bride of Re-Animator' so I don't know what progression Herbert West made with his reagent, but here he believes that trapping the nanoplasm that escapes the body upon death is the answer. Maybe… More
  A good first half let down by a gory yet aimless second half. I missed #2 'Bride of Re-Animator' so I don't know what progression Herbert West made with his reagent, but here he believes that trapping the nanoplasm that escapes the body upon death is the answer. Maybe someday, doctor.

• Jason R

  
  Jeffrey Combs returns as the iconic Herbert West in Beyond Re-Animator which is not as good as the original but nevertheless provides enough awesome special effects and storyline to please fans of the horror classic. Really fun to watch, mostly for the really awesome FX, and the film… More
  Jeffrey Combs returns as the iconic Herbert West in Beyond Re-Animator which is not as good as the original but nevertheless provides enough awesome special effects and storyline to please fans of the horror classic. Really fun to watch, mostly for the really awesome FX, and the film boasts one of the funniest and most ridiculous scenes ever as we get to see a re-animated Rat fight a severed, re-animated Penis. So the film is great for fans and Jeffrey Combs is as always at his best, so definitely check this out.

• Christopher B

  
  This film has made the franchise into what the Simpsons have become on TV: Stupid. What used to be witty and subversive is now just dumb jokes. I know everyone gets a kick out of a certain "fight" scene, and I maybe would've laughed if it wasn't Re-animator, but… More
  This film has made the franchise into what the Simpsons have become on TV: Stupid. What used to be witty and subversive is now just dumb jokes. I know everyone gets a kick out of a certain "fight" scene, and I maybe would've laughed if it wasn't Re-animator, but I consider it the nail in the coffin for the series. A cheap looking, shoddily put together cash in.

• Eduardo C

  
  RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS… More
  RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT! RE-ANIMATED PENIS VS RE-ANIMATED RAT!

• Barry L

  
  Even sillier but you gotta watch it.

• ken j

  
  Just another great Re-animator movie lots of blood

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