Beyond Re-Animator (2003)



Movie Title: Beyond Re-Animator

Year Released: 2003

Rated: R

Runtime: 1h 36min

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Brian Yuzna

Writer: José Manuel Gómez

Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Jason Barry, Bárbara Elorrieta, Elsa Pataky, Santiago Segura, Lolo Herrero, Enrique Arce, Nico Baixas, Simón Andreu, Joaquín Ortega, Raquel Gribler, Daniel Ortiz

Review: The doctor is in...the big house! After his part in the Miskatonic University Massacre, Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) has been serving a long stretch in prison. This has in no way kept him from his eerie experiments. Now with a new assistant, who has a past connection to West, these macabre medical men have found a new way to bring the dead back and Death Row will never be the same. It's beyond insanity! It's beyond obsession! It's Beyond Re-Animator!

Here we have the third part of the Re-Animator trilogy. This one, like Bride of Re-Animator has Brian Yuzna at the helm, and he continues to offer audiences a heaping helping of horror and humor that's synonymous with this series, but it doesn't quite live up to expectations.

Jeffrey Combs is back as Dr. Herbert West and he's more delightfully diabolical than ever! It's the role he was born to play and he does it so well. The only problem is that once to "plot" kicks in it seems as if West kind of becomes more of a secondary character. I guess that's what he's done in all of the previous films, but it just seems more apparent this time around. Jason Barry as Dr. Howard Phillips is fine in the role as West's protégé , but it's Elsa Pataky that has a wide range of stuff to do as a reporter who gets beyond caught up in West's weirdness.

The prison setting gives this entry a great look and mood, but it's a bit of a let down as Beyond Re-Animator lacks the over-the-top energy of the previous two films. Things do get rather chaotic, but unfortunately not much of it is too memorable.There's more than enough gore and nudity to keep the fans happy, but this really wouldn't have much appeal to the uninitiated.

Beyond Re-Animator is fun for fans of the series and the brilliant Jeffrey Combs, but it pales in comparison with its predecessors: Re-Animator and Bride of Re-Animator

Stars (out of 4):
       

Fun Fact: The young doctor played by Jason Barry is called Howard Phillips which are the first two names of H. P. Lovecraft, the writer of the story the first movie was based on.


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