Re-Animator 2 [1990]

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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