Bride of Re-Animator [Re-Animator 2] * (1990, Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones) Classic Movie Review 9562

Director Brian Yuzna’s 1990 Re-Animator sequel Bride of Re-Animator [Re-Animator 2] is a dull horror comic, enlivened by amusing touches of black humour (‘better watch out for premature re-animation’) and some typical gross-out make-up effects from Screaming Mad George.

Bruce Abbott and David Gale are back as the doctor chums Dr Dan Cain and Dr Carl Hill re-animating dead tissue, but now they want to create new life using hacked-off body parts. Abbott indulges his fantasies by creating strange hybrid creatures which rebel in a climax engineered by the flying head of wicked Dr Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs).

The acting is poor and the sometimes witty script is ridden with clichés that give the impression that this is a cheap film designed around effects.

Brian Yuzna, Woody Keith and Rick Fry’s screenplay is based on characters by H P Lovecraft.

Also in the cast are Claude Earl Jones as Lt. Leslie Chapham, Fabiana Udenio Kathleen Kinmont, Mel Stewart, Michael Strasser, Mary Sheldon and Irene Cagen [Irene Forrest].

Bride of Re-Animator [Re-Animator 2] is directed by Brian Yuzna, runs 95 minutes, is made by Re-Animator II Productions and Wild Street, is released by 50th Street Films (1991) (US) and Medusa Communications (1990) (UK), is written by Brian Yuzna, Woody Keith and Rick Fry, based on characters by H P Lovecraft, is shot by Rick Fichter, is produced by Paul White, Keith Walley and Hidetaka Konno, is scored by Richard Band and is designed by Philip J C Duffin.

Brian Yuzna’s Beyond Re-Animator followed in 2003, with Jeffrey Combs.

RIP Claude Earl Jones, who died on 25 November 2019, aged 86.

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