It can't come up with any really great plot points that weren't covered in the original, so it rehashes them to a boring degree.
Bride of Re-Animator (1991)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:8
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Eight months after the Miskatonic Massacre, the experimenting team of Dr. West and Dr. Cain are up to their old tricks. This time, instead of re-animating the dead, they are going to create new... Eight months after the Miskatonic Massacre, the experimenting team of Dr. West and Dr. Cain are up to their old tricks. This time, instead of re-animating the dead, they are going to create new life--in the form of a beautiful composite companion for good doctor West. But can they control their grisly inventions? Available in "R" and unrated versions. [More]
Starring: Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio, David Gale
Starring: Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio, David Gale, Kathleen Kinmont, Jeffrey Combs
Director: Brian Yuzna
Director: Brian Yuzna
Composer: Richard Band
Story: H.P. Lovecraft
Screenwriter: Woody Keith, Rick Fry, Brian Yuzna
Producer: Brian Yuzna
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Reviews for Bride of Re-Animator
Absolutely tasteless, glorious, gory fun with special effects from a crew of specialists who have, as one critic wrote, just gone abracadaver.
The over-the-top acting that Gordon encouraged in Re-Animator is continued here with Combs particularly adept at the darkly comic throwaway line.
The excessive blood-spurting gruesomeness and cartoonish stop-motion effects trivialise the horror and undercut the would-be black humour in this travestied sequel to Stuart Gordon's hugely enjoyable film.
Less a sequel to the critically praised 1985 horror film Re-Animator than a rehash based on the same H. P. Lovecraft stories.
If it lacks the intimate cohesion of the first film despite its desire to resurrect a feeling of doomed love, it at least isn't coy about ladling out the goodies.
While Re-Animator has wit and audacity and gore and ferocity to spare, Bride of Re-Animator has gore... and the same actors.
The bride is a fantastic creation -- both gruesome and strangely alluring at the same time -- and her final scene is the stuff of legend in gore effects.
Brian Yusna has replaced Stuart Gordon in the director's chair, without bringing new life to the affair. Even the jokes in the Woody Keith/Rick Fry screenplay seem refried, suggesting that all too much of this Bride is old and borrowed...
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