Beyond Re-Animator starts with an innocent woman named Emily Phillips (Barbara Elorrieta) being attacked & killed by a zombie (Angel Plana) in front of her younger Brother Howie (Tommy Dean Musset), as the police arrive & blow the zombie away Howie witnesses them arrest & take away Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) from a nearby cemetery & finds a needle with some strange bright green fluid inside. It's '13 Years Later' & Dr. West has spent those years in Arkham State Penitentiary trying to keep his experiments alive by using rats as test subjects, Howard Phillips (Jason Barry) is now a qualified Doctor & has got a job as the prison MD. Howard asks Warden Brando (Simon Andreu) if he can have Dr. West as his assistant which he can, their first patient is an inmate named Moses (Nico Baixas) who has a heart attack & dies. Howard reveals who he is to West & that he has some of his serum which they use on Moses to bring him back to life. At this point Warden Brando & a journalist named Laura Olney (the gorgeous Elsa Pataky) walk in & see Moses as a mindless zombie. Both Warden Brando who senses a ground-breaking discovery & Laura who senses a big story decide to investigate the incident as Howard uses his position to assist West in his experiments, but as usual things quickly spiral out of control & turn into an absolute bloodbath...
This Spanish American co-production was co-written, co-produced & directed by Brian Yuzna & I thought Beyond Re-Animator was a pretty decent horror film, although not as good as the previous two instalment's Re-Animator (1985) & Bride of Re-Animator (1990). The script by Yuzna & Jose Manuel Gomez based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft moves along at a fairly good pace but does take a while to get going, it doesn't stray too far from the Re-Animator themes & ideas. The character's are OK if a little clichéd. There are plenty of over-the-top sequences & set piece's in Beyond Re-Animator which is what the film is all about when it comes down to it, a prisoner ends up with no lower body, someone explodes, the evil warden gets electrocuted, there's a castration, a cool zombie without any jaw & his tongue exposed, breast biting, zombie rats, decapitation & a babe in a dominatrix outfit who knows how to fight in probably my favourite scene. Beyond Re-Animator never seems to take itself too seriously & it's all good fun if you have the stomach & liking for this type of material. Director Yuzna plays the comedy side of things up a little bit too much for my liking on occasion but films everything with a degree of style & imagination. Technically Beyond Re-Animator is polished & well made although the quality of some of the special effects vary & the use of CGI feels out of place & odd in a Re-Animator film which were always full of fake blood & guts. The traditional Re-Animator theme music is present once again but has been slightly re-arranged by composer Richard Band & the cinematography is fine. Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West is excellent once again, even though the guy is evil you just like him. Spanish actress Elsa Pataky is totally gorgeous & I loved the scenes with her at the end dressed in that cool outfit... Everyone else is rather weak & I didn't particularly like Jason Barry as West's new assistant as he is certainly no Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) from the previous two films. Beyond Re-Animator is mindless entertainment, there are enough stand-out scenes to make it highly enjoyable but at the same time it lacked a certain something. The gore wasn't as plentiful as I had expected & it descended into plain silly farce more than I would have liked. Still well worth a watch if only for Pataky whom is seriously hot in leather & high heels...
This Spanish American co-production was co-written, co-produced & directed by Brian Yuzna & I thought Beyond Re-Animator was a pretty decent horror film, although not as good as the previous two instalment's Re-Animator (1985) & Bride of Re-Animator (1990). The script by Yuzna & Jose Manuel Gomez based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft moves along at a fairly good pace but does take a while to get going, it doesn't stray too far from the Re-Animator themes & ideas. The character's are OK if a little clichéd. There are plenty of over-the-top sequences & set piece's in Beyond Re-Animator which is what the film is all about when it comes down to it, a prisoner ends up with no lower body, someone explodes, the evil warden gets electrocuted, there's a castration, a cool zombie without any jaw & his tongue exposed, breast biting, zombie rats, decapitation & a babe in a dominatrix outfit who knows how to fight in probably my favourite scene. Beyond Re-Animator never seems to take itself too seriously & it's all good fun if you have the stomach & liking for this type of material. Director Yuzna plays the comedy side of things up a little bit too much for my liking on occasion but films everything with a degree of style & imagination. Technically Beyond Re-Animator is polished & well made although the quality of some of the special effects vary & the use of CGI feels out of place & odd in a Re-Animator film which were always full of fake blood & guts. The traditional Re-Animator theme music is present once again but has been slightly re-arranged by composer Richard Band & the cinematography is fine. Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West is excellent once again, even though the guy is evil you just like him. Spanish actress Elsa Pataky is totally gorgeous & I loved the scenes with her at the end dressed in that cool outfit... Everyone else is rather weak & I didn't particularly like Jason Barry as West's new assistant as he is certainly no Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) from the previous two films. Beyond Re-Animator is mindless entertainment, there are enough stand-out scenes to make it highly enjoyable but at the same time it lacked a certain something. The gore wasn't as plentiful as I had expected & it descended into plain silly farce more than I would have liked. Still well worth a watch if only for Pataky whom is seriously hot in leather & high heels...