Beyond Re-Animator (2003) or, Once a Re-Animator, Always a Re-Animator!

12/14/2013

Beyond Re-Animator (2003) or, Once a Re-Animator, Always a Re-Animator!

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+ Gore Movie of the Year + Best Horror Comedy of the Year + Best Spanish Movie of the Year

Co-star Jeffrey Combs looks less than trustworthy inspecting green fluid inside of a syringe on this poster for Brian Yuzna's Beyond Re-Animator

Inside the prison where the mad, re-animating doctor Herbert West is incarcerated, a new doctor and a young, blond journalist now arrive, - and a new bloody chaos breaks out!

Beyond Re-Animator is written by José Manuel Gómez (Happy House (2000, TV-series)), with Miguel Tejada-Flores (Solar Attack (2006, TV movie)) contributing story elements and co-writer/co-producer/director Brian Yuzna (Self-Portrait in Brains (1978)) contributing uncredited work. It is the second sequel to Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator (1985).

With a liberating, adventurous and childish, cartoonish narrative, a long row of gags that almost all succeed, and not least a cast of actors who all go all-in, Beyond Re-Animator succeeds in being a good crazy, gory horror comedy.
Though most are Spanish actors later dubbed into English, Yuzna directs his cast well, getting all as one to play over-wrung caricatures in lieu of real characters. The consistency is admirable.
Beyond Re-Animator is ideal as unpretentious late-night entertainment, although its style is also a bit esoteric and nerdy, mostly intended for its limited horror fan-base audience. SPOILER An example of this boyish guffaw humor would be the scene in which the prison warden behaves like a rat, while his bitten off penis (!) fights (!!) a real rat (!!!).
Jeffrey Combs (From Beyond (1986)) is back in the title lead that he also played in the cult hit original and the first sequel, Bride of Re-Animator (1990). Unlike the first two, American films, this one was shot in Spain.
Beyond Re-Animator is the best of Yuzna's films that I have seen so far. It is outrageous horror fun for the inaugurated few.

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Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 3 mil. $
Box office: In excess of 302k $

= Box office disaster (projected return of 0.13 times its cost)

[Beyond Re-Animator premiered 21 March (Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival) and runs 95 minutes. Shooting took place in Spain, including in Barcelona. The film opened at #9 in Spain, its peak there, where it grossed 302k $, the only recorded gross at Box Office Mojo. It was released in a few other markets, and was screened at various festivals. In North America, it premiered at the Syfy channel. Yuzna returned with Rottweiler (2004). Combs returned in 4 TV credits prior to his theatrical return in All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos (2005). Beyond Re-Animator is rotten at 55 % with a 5.30/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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