Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones, David Gale, Fabiana Udenio

Director: Brian Yuzna

Summary: The sequel to 'Re-Animator' and five years on the horror begins all over again...

The Re-Animator's back in this gory sequel. This time, the twisted Dr. Herbert West (Jeffery Combs) is aiming not just to restore life, but to create it from spare body parts. His warped genius has given birth to hideous and disgusting combinations, both animal and human, but his desire to create an entire woman from assorted limbs and organs has eluded him--until now. What follows is plenty of morbid mayhem.

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Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator(1990) 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, Brideis very loosely based on HP Lovecraft's stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He and 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 and 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 West's new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun.

On the DVD:Bride of Re-Animatoris presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and 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 and a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies. --Roz Kaveney

Aspect Ratio:	Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 0
Special Features:	Star And Director Filmographies, Scene Selection, Original Theatrical Trailer, Brian Yuzna Production Notes, Mark Kermode Film Notes, Tartan Terror Trailer Reel
Year:	1990
Release Date:	January 27, 2003
Runtime:	97 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	T V D 3404
Label:	Tartan Terror
Keywords:	Bride, General, Wide, Screen, Horror, Occult, Re, Sci, Fi, Animator
Genre:	Horror/Occult