Beyond Re-Animator

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Beyond Re-Animator

R

2003

1h 33m

Horror

Comedy

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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

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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

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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

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

Rated: 2/5

Jul 13, 2004

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Paul Sherman

Boston Herald

Rated: 2/4

Feb 2, 2004

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Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

On the bright side, Yuzna brings back special effects maestro Screaming Mad George.

Rated: 1/4

Jan 3, 2004

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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

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Cees T

5.7 - Rather dubious.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/21/23

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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).

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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