Beyond Re-Animator

Infobox_Film
name = Beyond Re-Animator

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caption = Theatrical Poster
director = Brian Yuzna
producer = Brian Yuzna
Julio Fernández
Carlos Fernández
writer = Characters:
H. P. Lovecraft
Story:
Miguel Tejada-Flores
Screenplay:
José Manuel Gómez
starring = Jeffrey Combs
Tommy Dean Musset
Jason Barry
Bárbara Elorrieta
Elsa Pataky
Santiago Segura
Simón Andreu
cinematography = Andreu Rebés
music = Xavier Capellas
editing = Bernat Vilaplana
distributor = Lions Gate Films
released = April 4, 2003
runtime = 95 min.
language = English
budget = $3,000,000 (Estimated)
preceded_by = "Bride of Re-Animator"
amg_id = 1:280078
imdb_id = 0222812

"Beyond Re-Animator" (2003) is a horror movie, directed by Brian Yuzna. It is the second sequel to "Re-Animator". The film premiered on the Sci Fi Channel (though it was produced independently and acquired by the channel only as a distributor). This showing was cut to a TV-PG rating. The subsequently released DVD was rated R, but there is a slightly longer unrated cut available in some countries, including the Netherlands. It also received a limited theatrical run in the US.

Plot

For the past 13 years, Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) has been serving his prison sentence for the Miskatonic Massacre. With what scant supplies he has on hand in the prison medical center, Dr. West has been capable of performing only extremely basic experiments on rats. However, his lack of supplies does not prevent him from uncovering a key element in his re-animation process. When a young doctor named Howard Phillips (Jason Barry) comes to work at the prison, he teams up with West uses to help him attain the supplies and tools needed to bring his experiments to the next level.

Dr. West has discovered "NPE" (Nano-Plasmic Energy), an energy that can be extracted from the brain of a living organism through an electrocution-like process, to be stored in a capsule resembling a small light bulb. The capsule can then be connected to a corpse and used in conjunction with West's previously developed reagent to restore the former dead to a life-like state. The NPE prevents the degeneration seen in previous instances, where the reanimated are nothing more than mindless zombies. Used together with the re-agent reanimated corpses regain their skills, memories, and motor functions and nearly fully resemble normal humans.

The warden of the prison uncovers West's experiments, and is killed and re-animated not unlike Dr. Carl Hill in the first "Re-Animator". However, West uses the NPE from a prisoner's pet rat, causing some unexpected side effects in the warden's behavior. It manifests itself as the prison descends into utter chaos as a riot breaks out, vials of the reagent circulating through the population. Soon, it is unclear on who is dead, who is alive, and who has been exposed to the agent. It is known that Phillips is "supposedly" believed to be criminally insane by guards, when they find him weeping over laura's head servered from her body.

It is also revealed that West actullaly manages to escape the prison by stealing Phillips' I.D. when he had come across him weeping over Laura's decayed body before the guards had appeared. In the end of the film it is shown West putting on his glasses outside the prison once he has slipped pass security. He then throw's a human eye on to the lawn of the prison. It was shown struggling to move and after witnessing this West leaves the prison into to continue his research.

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External links

*imdb title|id=0222812|title=Beyond Re-Animator
* [http://www.scifi.com/beyondreanimator/ Official site at Scifi.com]
* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1126349/reviews.php?critic=columns&sortby=default&page=1&rid=1191368 Beyond Re-Animator] Review at Rotten Tomatoes.com