BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR
1990
USA
Written By: (Based on characters created by) H.P. Lovecraft
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Alternate Titles:
Re-Animator 2 (UK)
Directed By:
Brian Yuzna
Produced By:
Paul White, Brian Yuzna
Rick Fry, Woody Keith, Brian Yuzna
Rick Fichter
Screaming Mad George, David Allen, Jim Davidson
Richard Band
Peter Teschner
Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones,
Fabiana Udenio, David Gale, Kathleen Kinmont,
Mel Stewart, Irene Forrest, Michael Strasser,
Mary Sheldon, Marge Turner, Johnny Legend,
David Bynum,
Noble Craig, Kim Parker,
Charles Schneider, Rebeca Recio, Jay Evans
Review from Zombie
by Allan Bryce
Film Quality: * * * (of 5)
Gore Content: * * * (of 5)
"Released in the UK as RE-ANIMATOR 2, this inferior tongue-
in-cheek sequel to the earlier Stuart Gordon hit
finds Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) back with his reluctant
partner Dan, working at a hospital during the day
and experimenting with stolen body parts at night. They
decide to create a new life out of these
parts, building around the heart of Dan's deceased girlfriend
from the previous movie, but it's back to the
drawing board when the fiendish severed head of Dr. Hill
(David Gale) takes over a few zombie stragglers and
returns to plague them. More in the spirit of
Mary Shelley than H.P. Lovecraft, this is quite well
done of its kind and features some memorably crazy
special effects - there's a fun scene involving a crawling
eyeball attached to two fingers. But Yuzna doesn't quite
have the filmmaking skill of Stuart Gordon, and the
script substitutes feeble slapstick for the hard-edged black
comedy of the original."
Review from Official Splatter Movie Guide Vol. II
by John McCarthy
"This snappy sequel to one of splatter's bona fide
classics pays a concluding nod to a certain Mary
Shelley, although, like the first film, it owes more
to James Whale instead (as witness the title), not
to mention H.P. Lovecraft, of course. Herbert West (Combs),
his bewildered cohort Dan Cain (Abbott), and head man
Dr. Carl Hill (Gale) are all back in action
trying to concoct a replacement for Barbara Crampton by
using her heart and West's re-animation technique to resuscitate
a slaughterhouseful of pulsating viscera and body parts. As
in FROM BEYOND, their mad lab becomes swamped
with all manner of grotesque, Lovecraftian creatures and blood-
dripping 'thingies' West stitches together to amuse himself before
the final, stomach-churning fade-out, which clearly paves
the way for yet another sequel. Yuzna, who produced
the first film, takes over the directorial chores from
Stuart Gordon, and he does well. The film is
constructed in the same outrageous, over-the-top style
as the original, though there's a bit less character
developement this time around. But there's a lot more
gore and sexual hijinks, and just as much humor,
so you probably won't miss it. A worthy, though
not better, successor."
