Beyond Re-Animator
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Movie Reviews of Beyond Re-Animator
Movie Review: Disappointing installment
Summary: 2 Stars
I had put off seeing Beyond Re-Animator for quite some time, combined by the fact I didn't want to see a neutered version on the Sci-Fi Channel and all the negative things I'd heard about it. It's predecessor, Bride of Re-Animator, was in my opinion a solid sequel that maintained the heart of Stuart Gordon's original, but Beyond Re-Animator sadly doesn't echo that same feeling, even though Brian Yuzna is back at the helm here. For starters, besides the great Jeffrey Combs returning as Herbert West, most of the rest of the cast is godawful. Not to mention that the film's confusing script and moments where the low budget is ever apparent don't make things much better either. Where Beyond Re-Animator shines however is with the makeup and gore effects by Screaming Mad George and his crew, who despite having such a low budget, manage to craft some effects work which actually look pretty good. It's only too bad there aren't enough of them. The effects, combined with a hysterical closing credits battle between a rat and a severed certain part of the male anatomy, are reason enough to see Beyond Re-Animator alone. All in all, Beyond Re-Animator is certainly worth a look, but don't expect the same level of enjoyable depravity that came before it.Movie Review: i wish it was better
Summary: 2 Stars
I just bought and finished watching Beyond Reanimator. I was expecting to see a more quality movie when I bought this, with cooler deaths, funnier dialog, and a more interesting story. Beyond Reanimator had all the ingredients to make a fantastic movie, I think (it seems apparent) that alot was not planned through, aspects were rushed and not all involved were passionate about creating this movie. If you really love the reanimator series buy it maybe you won't be dissapointed it's only 13 dollars, if you only like the original reanimator you may want to skip even renting this movie. -I sold my copy for six bucks at Coconuts.Movie Review: Dissapointing Sequel
Summary: 2 Stars
Jeffrey Combs returns as the very mad Dr Herbet West is this lame sequel to the original classic. Combs is terrific as usual and deserves a better movie. This one just uses the plot of the original movie but changes the setting to a prison. Gore hounds might enjoy it- but the effect are just ok. The DVD includes a hysterical music video that you have to see to believe. The making of segment is mostly in Spanish ( the film was made in Barcelona) with out English subtitles!Movie Review: A BOMB of a flick except for a few good gore effects
Summary: 2 Stars
This sequel to a horror classic started out ok, but by the middle, none of it mattered anymore, I even got a bit tired of the well done gore effects because I had to sit through scenes of a severed [...] and rat duking it out! The original "ReAnimator" is a great flick to see if you want excellent and original gore effects as well as a creepy storyline, but this sequel just stinks.Movie Review: Miserable acting, horrible script, inane directing.
Summary: 1 Stars
What a mind-numbingly inept end chapter to a series that began with the greatest horror-comedy of all time, The Re-Animator. Continuing in his deluded quest to claim the Re-Animator series for his own, and to convince us that he can direct, producer Brian Yuzna has managed the opposite. Beyond Re-Animator merely confirms what was evident about the Yuzna-directed Bride of Re-Animator, that Yuzna knows nothing about directing actors and story.
As with Dagon, Yuzna seems to have secured financing from Spanish sources for this film. Unfortunately, the problem is that they also tried to force in a mostly Spanish cast. This is a story set in Massachusetts, for crying out loud -- why would the warden of the prison, the reporter coming to cover the story, the guards, and a good 90 per cent of the inmates all have Spanish accents? It wouldn't be as howlingly horrible if these guys could act, but they can't. Simon Andreu as Warden Brando and Elsa Pataky as love interest Laura Olney get the most screentime of anyone in the cast, but their acting is so bad, and their ADR-afflicted lines so glaringly off, that they manage to sink the film every time they open their mouths. Yuzna seems to pick his leading ladies based on their willingness to take off their clothes (witness the gratuitous "nurse nipple" scene in this film, or Fabiana Udenio and Kathleen Kinmont in Bride of Re-Animator), and Pataky makes for one of the most unsympathetic love interests I can remember.
But even Pataky and Andreu pale in incompetence next to that blustery, seething mass of bad acting that is leading man Jason Barry. Based on Yuzna's shoddy history with actors, one might be tempted to blame it on the director, but the fact is that in this film, Jason Barry is incapable of pulling off a single believable moment, basic elementary acting. His every internal and external beat rings false, his dialogue delivery sounds like a cold reading, and even his basic body movements look like amateur theatre. Most high-school students do better than this. Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West, seasoned pro that he is, gamely plays along, but the script puts West's character so far off to the sideline in favour of the vomit-inducing Pataky-Andreu axis that Combs is unable to save this film.
On a strictly technical level, the cinematography looks good, the score is all right (though often too serious-minded for its own good), and the film doesn't look low-budget. But when the "story" is such a mess and the actors so inept, no amount of slick lighting and camera moves can save a film. Yuzna really should stick with producing, because on the Stuart Gordon-directed Dagon, at least there were some good moments. But Beyond Re-Animator is beyond salvaging, possibly the worst film sequel I've ever seen, and way up there in the list of worst films I've ever subjected myself to.