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Beyond Re-Animator

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When he was young, Howard Phillips (Jason Barry) watched his sister get torn apart by one of Dr. Herbert West's (Jeffrey Combs) reanimated corpses. Phillips, now a doctor, is so eager to learn more about the mad doctor's attempts to bring back the dead that he accepts a position at the prison where West is being held. Phillips delves further into West's gruesome research, which attracts the attention of a local reporter (Elsa Pataky) and the cruel prison warden (Simón Andreu).
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Wesley Morris Boston Globe Suggests what porn might be like if it existed only to make you feel viciously ill. Rated: 1/4 Sep 12, 2003 Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins The pacing is off, while many of the scenes could use some polishing, but the ideas nicely expand upon those seen in the previous two chapters. Rated: 6/10 Sep 25, 2020 Full Review Lucius Gore ESplatter This director's work has varied from the sublime ("The Dentist") to the awful ("Faust"). This lies somewhere in between, more toward the good than the bad. Rated: 2.5/4 Aug 4, 2008 Full Review Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Rated: 2/5 Jul 13, 2004 Full Review Paul Sherman Boston Herald Rated: 2/4 Feb 2, 2004 Full Review Walter Chaw Film Freak Central On the bright side, Yuzna brings back special effects maestro Screaming Mad George. Rated: 1/4 Jan 3, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

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Andy B H. P. Lovecraft is a very difficult author to adapt for the screen. His monsters tend to be of the cosmic and inexplicable variety and his protagonists usually end up as dribblingly insane or lunch for whatever eldritch being they have encountered. So with Herbert West, they have done a very good of taking a short story, expanding and piling on the gore for a modern audience. This is the third installation and see Howard West incarcerated. He meets a doctor called Howard Phillips (they really didn't work too hard for that name, did they) and together they start the usual experiments. From there it's the usual descent into madness with the mad scientists getting worse and worse with each action they take. What keeps this, and the other two films, together is Jeffrey Combs. His Herbert West is believably insane, highly active and clearly completely amoral. Without Combs, these films would not work but with him, they carry you through the ridiculous plots so that we can appreciate the dark humour and so that we can walk that line between sanity and insanity that Howard walks. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/08/24 Full Review Cees T 5.7 - Rather dubious. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/21/23 Full Review Liam D This is obviously the weakest movie in The Re-animator franchise but it still really fun Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/06/22 Full Review tiago d Filme divertido! Menos criativo que os anteriores, com algumas cenas desnecessaria. A torca de parceria do protagonista não convence muito e a make nesse está ruim. Porém serve para estender a diversão para os fãs dos dois primeiros filmes Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Despite the fact it's decades later, this movie still manages to keep some of the absurd fun and flavor of the 80s stuff, while also bringing in some fresh ideas and whole new age of lunacy. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member It's like the director got a stale bag of cliches from the top shelf, put them in a blender and then poured them over Re-Animator skeleton. It could have worked much better as a silly comedy, but only the last act is funny. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis When he was young, Howard Phillips (Jason Barry) watched his sister get torn apart by one of Dr. Herbert West's (Jeffrey Combs) reanimated corpses. Phillips, now a doctor, is so eager to learn more about the mad doctor's attempts to bring back the dead that he accepts a position at the prison where West is being held. Phillips delves further into West's gruesome research, which attracts the attention of a local reporter (Elsa Pataky) and the cruel prison warden (Simón Andreu).
Director
Brian Yuzna
Producer
Carlos Fernández, Brian Yuzna, Julio Fernández
Screenwriter
Jaime Osorio Gómez
Production Co
Fantastic Factory (Filmax), Castelao Producciones S.A., Canal+ España
Rating
R
Genre
Horror, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 1, 2013
Runtime
1h 33m
Sound Mix
Surround
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