Bride of Re-Animator (1990)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Brian Yuzna

Writers:

Rick Fry (writer)
Woody Keith (writer)

Release Date:

8 July 1990 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Date. Mate. Re-animate.

Plot:

Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.

Plot Keywords:

Heart | Head | Doctor | Brain | Stop Motion

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Jeffrey Combs	...	Dr. Herbert West
Bruce Abbott	...	Dr. Dan Cain
Claude Earl Jones	...	Lt. Leslie Chapham
Fabiana Udenio	...	Francesca Danelli
David Gale	...	Doctor Carl Hill
Kathleen Kinmont	...	Gloria
Mel Stewart	...	Dr. Graves
Irene Forrest	...	Nurse Shelley
Michael Strasser	...	Ernest
Mary Sheldon	...	Meg Halsey
Marge Turner	...	The Re-Animated: Elizabeth Chapham
Johnny Legend	...	The Re-Animated: Skinny Corpse
David Bynum	...	The Re-Animated: Black Corpse
Noble Craig	...	The Re-Animated: Crypt Creature
Kim Parker	...	The Re-Animated: Crypt Creature

Also Known As:

Re-Animator 2 (UK)

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | Singapore:(Banned) | Germany:18 (video rating) (cut) | Germany:Not Rated (uncut) | Finland:K-18 (1998) (2002) | New Zealand:R16 | Australia:MA (re-rating) | Australia:M (original rating) | UK:18 | USA:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Company:

Wild Street

Trivia:

At one point Dr. West suggests that the noises coming from his laboratory wall are just "probably rats in the wall". This is a reference to one of H.P. Lovecraft's better known stories "Rats In The Wall".

Goofs:

Continuity: When Dr. Graves is battling the re-animated rat the words "Dr. Graves, Pathology" on his doctor's smock go from correct to a reversed image and then back to the correct, legible image.

Quotes:

Dr. Herbert West: Make a note of it, Dan! Tissue rejection!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Angry and Moist: An Undead Chronicle (2004)

Fun but unsatisfying...

Such a hard act to follow. The original Re-Animator was amazing for two reasons: it was a knockout horror flick smack in the middle of the 80's, and it was a knockout horror flick based on the writings of HP Lovecraft. Loaded with daring ideas and sexual energy, it took everyone by surprise. The sequel could have been more of a failure. After all, just the weight of trying to follow such a grand film as the original is daunting. Yuzna and his crew perform admirably, and much of the film is nicely twisted. I especially like Dr. West's couplings of various appendages and organs to make all sorts of weird ambulatory critters. Much of Lovecraft's pulp mechanations (he disliked the finished stories) remain, just as in the first film. Essentially, the grander the experiments West and his colleague contrive, the more costly (and gory)the failure. Screaming Mad George's effects certainly are the highlights. The film moves at a decent clip, but ultimately just can't come together. The humor is far more showy--a bit too much winking and nudging--and detracts from the horror. I would have liked to have seen more hunger in this film, more of a desire to really do a job on the audience. Yuzna and co. make a film that's just a bit too content for my tastes. If you see this flick, by all means check it out. It certainly doesn't fall on its face. The first film just had more of a swagger to it, is all.