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Re-Animator 2 [DVD] [1990]

DVD ~ Brian Yuzna|Jeffrey Combs|Bruce Abbott|Claude Earl Jones
3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Brian Yuzna|Jeffrey Combs|Bruce Abbott|Claude Earl Jones
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Medusa Comms. and Mktg. Ltd.
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Oct 1999
  • Run Time: 93 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004D01N
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 69,229 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator (1990) was one of the last hurrahs for special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor, Re-Animator, Bride is 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-Animator is 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

Video Description
DVD Menu

Experiments In Life & Death
Opening Credits
Routine Surgery
Headcase
Re-united with Part of an Old Friend
Finger it Out
Professional Differences
Bat Out of Hell
Unfinished business
Real Italian Style
Psycho Ward
Science Out of Control
Unwelcome Visitor
The Wrong Arm of the Law
A Man's Best Friend
Flatline Trauma
Binned
Resurrection Conceived
Hospital Massacre
Unexpected Delivery
Death Awakened
Cat-fight
Out of Control


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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Inferior but enjoyable sequel, 9 Aug 2004
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This review is from: Bride Of Re-Animator [DVD] [1990] (DVD)
The original Re-Animator is rightly regarded as an all time-horror classic, and certainly when it comes to tongue-in-cheek gore-filled black comedies only the first 2 Evil Dead films come anywhere near it. Making a sequel looks to be a hopeless task, as the first film clearly tied itself up as a self-contained film, but while it requires a bit of suspension of disbelief from the viewer the script for Bride of Re-Animator does a tremendous job just managing to reunite most of the cast from the first film (half of whom appeared to have died at the end it) without completely throwing away the continuity of the first film.

It's a bit weird to see Herbert West attempting to give life to separate body parts here when in the first film he couldn't even manage to re-animate whole corpses without turning them into maniacal zombies, but it does allow scope for this film to explore a slightly different angle from the first whilst still retaining the feel of the original. The first half of the film is rather slow and boring, with only West's bizarre experiments in joining together odd combinations of body parts providing any entertainment. The ending is fantastic however, with a climax that rivals the ending of the first film for sheer over the top insanity, as West and eternal unwilling sidekick Dan Cain find themselves under siege from the now bat-winged head of Doctor Hill, his re-animated zombies (including a hilarious zombie cop who bursts in holding his badge as though making an arrest), the bricked-up earlier failed experiments of West and of course the 'bride of re-animator' herself...

Inevitably it's inferior to the original movie, but the combination of returning old favourite characters with some new improved gore effects means this will provide some entertainment for fans of the first film. Nowhere near as bad as it's reputation, Bride of Re-Animator is a fair stab at a very difficult sequel.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining sequel., 6 Jul 2004
This review is from: Bride Of Re-Animator [DVD] [1990] (DVD)
I own the fullscreen, no extras DVD of this film, but there has since been a better release.

This is a good fun film, with plenty of blood and guts. It would certainly help if you had seen the first film so the film makes more sense to you.

Not so much a retread sequel but the unqualified Drs. are still trying to re-animate dead bodies, to beat death, for entirely different reasons.

Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Herbet West steals the show, once again, with this performance, he effortlessly slips into the role. He is sarcastic, devious and twisted, but not at all evil!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Re-animator 2, 19 Aug 2002
This review is from: Re-Animator 2 [VHS] (VHS Tape)
If you enjoyed the first film you'll love this one. Re-animator and Re-animator 2 are undoubtedly the best conversions of Lovecraft to film. It goes past tounge-in-cheek and out the other side but it really works. Director Yuzna brilliantly converts Lovecraft's early 20th century story to a more modern setting and Jeffrey Combs brings the manic character of West to life in a way that no other actor could. I love this movie.
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