Re Animator 2

Starring: Brian Yuzna, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones, Jeffrey Combs Original UK Premiere: 1990 Dvd Release: 4th October, 1999 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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DVD Extras: Bride of Re-Animator is presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1, & its Dolby 2.0 does what little can be done with the muddy soundtrack, but is rather better with the jauntily creepy score. The only special features on this Tartan issue are the trailer, the director's production notes & a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies.

Brian Yuznas Bride of Re-Animator was one of the last hurrahs for special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor, Re-Animator, Bride is very loosely based on HP Lovecrafts stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He & his agonisingly liberal sidekick Cain have discovered an improvement on their original serum, now they can not only bring the dead back to life but also assemble them from parts first.

Jeffrey Combs gives a wonderfully dour performance as West, not even cracking a smile when a creature he has concocted from fingers & an eye-ball is running around the room unseen by a pestering detective. This is the sort of film that constantly escalates its macabre elements, the surviving villain of the first film has been left as simply an animated head, but that does not stop him pursuing his revenge on West, nor finding ways of using Wests new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun.

Brian Yuzna is a director, writer & producer of films. Yuzna grew up in Nicaragua, Puerto Rico & Panama before moving to the United States in the 1980s. Most of Yuznas film work is in the horror genre, though he has also ventured into science fiction. Like his friend & fellow filmmaker Stuart Gordon, Yuzna is a big fan of H,P. Lovecraft & has adapted several Lovecraft stories for the screen. With Julio Fernández, Yuzna started Fantastic Factory, a label under Barcelona film company Filmax. Yuznas goal for Fantastic Factory is produce modestly budgeted genre films for the international market using genre talent from all around the world & to develop local talent. // Initiation. Silent Night, Deadly Night 4. Initiation. Silent Night, Deadly Night 4. Silent Night, Deadly Night 5. The Toy Maker. Silent Night, Deadly Night 5. The Toy Maker. Brian Yuzna at the Internet Movie Database. Posters Of Progeny

Editors Choice: Progeny, Faust, The Dentist 2, The Dentist, The Return Of The Living Dead 3, Bride Of Re Animator, Re Animator 2, Society, View DVDology

Jeffrey Combs is a character actor best known for his horror film roles. Born September 9, 1954 in Oxnard, California. Combs was raised in Lompoc, California & attended Santa Monica s Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts & later developed his acting talent in the Professional Actors Training Program at the University of Washington. After spending several years performing in playhouses all along the West Coast, Combs moved to Los Angeles in 1980 & got his first role in the 1981 film, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, playing an intern. His first horror film role came the next year in Frightmare, which set the path for the much of his career in the genre. Combs best known film role is Dr Herbert West, a character in Re-Animator which he has reprised in the films two sequels. His most recent film credits include FearDotCom, House on Haunted Hill & I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Enterprise. The Next Generation, but lost out to Jonathan Frakes, though producers kept him in mind for casting in the later series. Deep Space Nine. Enterprise episode Acquisition.

Editors Choice: Bride Of Re Animator, Re Animator 2, View DVDology

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