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.
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06/24/06
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... [More]
Starring: Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio, David Gale
Director: Brian Yuzna
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Reviews for Bride of Re-Animator
1 - 16 (sorted by critic A-Z)
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.
02/13/01
Less a sequel to the critically praised 1985 horror film Re-Animator than a rehash based on the same H. P. Lovecraft stories.
08/30/04
Top CriticIf 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.
10/31/03
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...
01/01/00
Top Criticnot particularly scary
09/07/03
The over-the-top acting that Gordon encouraged in Re-Animator is continued here with Combs particularly adept at the darkly comic throwaway line.
03/26/09
Top CriticCould have been better but still a fine sequel.
01/29/08
While Re-Animator has wit and audacity and gore and ferocity to spare, Bride of Re-Animator has gore... and the same actors.
10/22/03
Absolutely tasteless, glorious, gory fun with special effects from a crew of specialists who have, as one critic wrote, just gone abracadaver.
08/21/09
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.
08/21/09
In dire need of Stuart Gordon's direction.
07/30/02
No review available.
12/08/03
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08/11/05
No review available.
08/09/02
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