Beyond Re-Animator
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| Directed by | Brian Yuzna |
| Produced by | Brian Yuzna Julio Fernández Carlos Fernández |
| Written by |
Characters: H. P. Lovecraft Story: Miguel Tejada-Flores Screenplay: José Manuel Gómez Brian Yuzna (uncredited) |
| Starring |
Jeffrey Combs Tommy Dean Musset Jason Barry Bárbara Elorrieta Elsa Pataky Santiago Segura Simón Andreu |
| Music by | Xavier Capellas |
| Cinematography | Andreu Rebés |
| Edited by | Bernat Vilaplana |
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Castelao Producciones
Fantastic Factory |
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Filmax International (Spain) Lions Gate Entertainment (U.S.) |
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Running time
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95 minutes |
| Country | Spain United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,000,000 (Estimated) |
Beyond Re-Animator is a 2003 Spanish-American science-fiction horror film directed by Brian Yuzna and starring Jeffrey Combs, Jason Barry, Simón Andreu, Elsa Pataky, and Santiago Segura. It is the third and final installment of the Re-Animator film series.
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. It also received a limited theatrical run in the U.S.
For the past 13 years, Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) has been serving a prison sentence due to a murder at the hands of one of his zombies. 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. 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 lifelike 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.
When a young doctor named Howard Phillips (Jason Barry) comes to work at the prison, West is assigned to assist the new doctor. Due to Phillips' interest with Dr. West's research, West is able to attain the supplies and tools needed to bring his experiments to the next level. It is revealed that Phillips is the younger brother of the teenage girl who was killed by West's zombie (he's shown watching West being taken away by the cops) and came to the prison for the explicit purpose of working with him. Despite his interest, Phillips still maintains an ethical reluctance to allow West's research to full completion. In the meantime, journalist Laura Olney (Elsa Pataky), covering a story for her newspaper at the prison, meets and begins an affair with Dr. Phillips, and they fall in love. This new romance only temporarily postpones West's experiment, however. After the warden of the prison, also infatuated with Laura, attempts to seduce Laura himself, she resists and he angrily kills her.
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