Bride of the Re-Animator

To put it upfront, Bride of the Re-Animator makes Bride of Frankenstein look like a sugar-coated Disney ride! In turns super-gory, utterly hilarious and pretty much anything in between, Brian Yuzna’s splatter-fest sequel to Stuart Gordon’s original hit comedy is an adaptation which would most likely even cause H.P. Lovecraft’s jaw to drop!

The story continues eight months after the blood-soaked events at Miscatonic University, and everyone’s favourite doctor, Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is back in action aided by his friend and colleague, Dr. Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott). Only this time round the two are working amidst the battlefield of a violent Peruvian civil war though fear not, soon they are back at Miscatonic Hospital in Arkham with various ‘souvenirs’ from Peru. Soon the work starts again in secret labs, and further body parts turn up from the morgue nearby.
In between all this chaos, Cain falls for journalist Francesca (Fabiana Udenio) whom he met while in Peru and it goes without saying that romance has little chance with someone as crazed as Dr. West in the periphery.
West soon sees himself confronted by Cain who gets increasingly tired of his friend’s morbid obsession with re-animation, but he also gets cornered by suspicious Lt. Chapham (Claude Earl Jones) who investigates West and Caine on suspicion of being directly responsible for re-animating Chapham’s dead wife (who was killed during the initial Miscatonic massacre) and turning her into a zombie. And of course, Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale) is also back or rather, his decapitated head – swearing bloody revenge!

Unfazed by all the goings-on, West continues his work and now is hell-bent on re-animating Gloria (Kathleen Kinmont), one of Cain’s patients who’d recently died in hospital. Rather than simply re-animating Gloria, West’s ambition is to create a completely new Gloria – or Bride rather, from various body parts including that of Cain’s former fiancée Megan (Mary Sheldon) and piles of skin tissue. Rest assured this is an experiment that’s bound to go… pear-shaped, not least because Hill’s head now flies with the aid of sewn on bat wings and is ready to attack, but various zombies (all the result of West’s insane experiments) are ready to take revenge too.

The movie’s climax needs to be seen to be believed, and the ensuing mayhem is further intensified courtesy of Screaming Mad George’s outlandish special effects!

Re-animated and re-stored, the release offers the following SPECIAL FEATURES:

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 3-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

Brand new 2K restorations of the Unrated and R-Rated versions of the film, approved by director Brian Yuzna
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
Original Stereo 2.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays)
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Digipak packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin
Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by festival programmer Michael Blyth
Re-Animator: Dawn of the Re-Animator – the official comic book prequel to the original Re-Animator

DISC 1 [BLU-RAY] & DISC 2 [DVD] – UNRATED VERSION

Brand new 2K restoration of the Unrated version
Brand new audio commentary with director Brian Yuzna
Audio commentary with Brian Yuzna, star Jeffrey Combs, special effects co-ordinator Thomas Rainone and the effects team including John Buechler, Mike Deak, Robert Kurtzman, Howard Berger and Screaming Mad George
Audio commentary with stars Jeffrey Combs and Bruce Abbott
Brian Yuzna Remembers Bride of Re-Animator – brand new featurette in which the director looks back at the making of the first Re-Animator sequel
Splatter Masters: The Special Effects Artists of Bride of Re-Animator – brand new FX featurette with a wealth of behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Robert Kurtzman of KNB, Screaming Mad George, Tony Doublin and John Buechler
Getting Ahead in Horror – archive making-of featurette
Meg is Re-Animated – deleted scene with behind-the-scenes footage
Carnival Sequence – the cast and crew discuss this excised sequence

DISC 3 [BLU-RAY] – R-RATED VERSION – LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE

Brand new 2K restoration of the R-Rated version
Behind-the-Scenes Reel

RE-ANIMATOR: DAWN OF THE RE-ANIMATOR’ – LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE

Perfect-bound booklet containing Re-Animator: Dawn of the Re-Animator, the 1992 comic prequel to Stuart Gordon’s original Re-Animator, reprinted in its entirety