Beyond Re-Animator
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Movie Reviews of Beyond Re-Animator
Movie Review: Beyond Re-Animator... Lorena Bobbitt Star Reporter
Summary: 5 Stars
Beyond Re-Animator: 8 out of 10: If you haven't seen the original Re-Animator drop what your doing and go see it. Re-Animator is simply one the best over the top horror/comedies in existence.
Okay now we got that out of the way, how does this second sequel stack up? While it is no great classic of cinema or even the horror/comedy oeuvre, Beyond Re-Animator is a fun chaotic romp. It contains one of the best prison riots ever filmed, (think Natural Born Killers mixed with Alien 3), the best performance by a severed penis since Street Trash, (I always wondered how severed penises stayed erect. I mean hydraulically speaking' well never mind), and another incredible over the top performance by Jeffery Combs.
Combs is simply the reason to see the film. His Dr Herbert West is older, wiser and as demented as ever. The movie, after a brief prologue, finds Dr. West doing time in one of those prisons Steven Segal is always trying to escape from. He is reanimating rats with homemade equipment in his cell. Soon another young protégé comes along and it's time to continue his experiments on humans. West has found a way to stop his reanimated corpses from becoming flesh-eating zombies.
Does it work? Who are we kidding of course not. As a result severed limbs, heads, torsos, and other (see above) rule the day. Throw in gratuitous female nudity, scientific doublespeak, and day-glo green syringes and we have ourselves a Re-Animator movie. Now I can nitpick about the somewhat slow beginning, the bad dubbing, and the mishandling of the girlfriend/warden scenes. (The movie seems strangely halfhearted about the implicit sadism between the two characters. The director Brian Yunza needed the scenes to be firmer and more explicit.) But whom am I kidding. Beyond Re-Animator is surprisingly fun. Watching the severed limbs gambol about is a riot, and lead Jeffery Combs is so good one wonders why he doesn't make more movies.
Movie Review: see it if only for the music video
Summary: 5 Stars
Yes, the original Re-Animator and it's sequel, Bride of Re-Animator, are very cheesy and of course Beyond Re-Animator is probably the cheesiest by far, but I still love them! Jeffrey Combs was born to play Dr. Herbert West, forever on the quest of developing a re-animation agent.
We find Dr. West in prison in this chapter, for the atrocities that occurred in the last movie. He doesn't quite fit in with the other cell mates, he is too sophisticated and too strange a man. His dull prison life is soon interrupted when a new doctor, whose sister was killed by one of West's "patients", becomes part of the staff and wants Dr. West to assist him.
Together they assemble a lab and begin to develop the re-animation serum along with trying to perfect a new part of the process which transfers the missing essence of one's soul into the patient- hypothetically making them act more like people and less like zombies. Of course it doesn't quite work and chaos ensues.
Beyond Re-Animator is great fun, especially if you don't take it too seriously. It is easy to root for Dr. Herbert West as he tries once again to successfully re-animate the dead. Jeffrey Combs is brilliant and the prison makes for a great atmosphere. Rats are also featured quite hilariously in the movie, which is personally a favorite little creature of mine. There are a few extras on the DVD, including an awesomely bad music video called something like "Re-Animate You Feet" or "Move Your Dead Bones". If you like bad horror movies then this one is for you.
Movie Review: I liked more than the original...
Summary: 5 Stars
Being the third installment of the Re-Animator series, one would think this would either lack or not be as great as the first. Scary enough I thought it was better than the original, had better gore, and was a lot funnier. The movie had a lot of action, some nudity, alot of blood and some very well done humor, just like the rest.
Being what it is, the movie did lack logic, but hey-- it's Beyond Re-Animator. I particularly did not like the whole "transferring of souls" thing, it did give the franchise an ability to go a bit longer, and int he end end added alot of comedy-- particularly injecting a rat's soul into the warden.
After buying this I waited a long time to watch it, I really did not like Bride Of Re-Animator at all, and I figured this would be much worse. After the first 10-15 minutes of slowness the movie quickly picked up and was a riot until the very end. I really enjoyed it a lot, Jeffrey Combs, again does a great job as Herbert. His performance in Beyond Re-Animator reminds me alot of Bruce Campbell's Ash from The Evil Dead. From exploding bodies, decapitated heads, entrails, half-men half-rat hybrids, half bodies and cut-off penises the gore effects were great, I know I keep repeating that, but it's true. A must see!
Movie Review: Wow!
Summary: 5 Stars
Beyond Re-Animator, the second sequel to the 80s horror classic Re-Animator, blew away my expectations- brilliant in every sense, intelligent, fresh, funny, energetic, everything that made the first great. Jeffrey Combs is back as the witty mad scientist Herbert West (he puts in a great performance as usual)... the story picks up 13 years later where he's confined to the walls of a prison. He doesn't let that stop him from carrying out more experiments though and soon teams up with a young doctor (who by chance was a follower of West and his research). Now with advanced capabilities and improved ideas for re-animating the dead, the duo set out to perfect the process. Only problem is they get caught up in a prison break which escalates into an all out battle with the undead. Not only one of the bloodiest movies I've seen in a long time but very entertaining. This doesn't really feel like a horror movie, more like a sci fi freak fest and unique in that it takes place in a prison. Check this one out.
Movie Review: Forget the other reviews!
Summary: 5 Stars
Those guys don't know what they're talking about.While you certainly need to see The Re-Animator as a set-up, Beyond the Re-Animator is better than the original movie could hope to be. It starts out slow, and some acting is indeed flat, but what better setting for total chaos and over-the-top mayhem than a prison?
While as a standalone movie, it probably merits only a couple of stars, "Beyond" isn't targeted towards a generic audience, and such a rating would be inappropriate. This campy horror flick is about as close to perfect as you can get for its intended audience, who can take the stylized violence and gore with a dark sense of humor.
Highly recommended!