Ok, so the first thing you should know about the Re-Animator series is that it's based(loosely) on an H.P. Lovecraft ditty. If you know anything about Mr. Lovecraft, or should know anything, it's that a good film has NEVER been made from any of his works. Ever. Each film centers around the search for eternal life, as Dr. Herbert West and a sidekick doctor discover how to reanimate dead things. This never goes well for them, and bad shit always happens. Does he stop? Of course not! Somehow, West also seems to survive his own death scenes and returns for another sequel.
So though I love Re-Animator, the first of the films, for its wonderfully cheesy effects, bordering on laughable, these films are really not that good. Also, they're what some have best described as...well, gross. Bride of Re-Animator goes above and beyond the initial cheesiness of the first film, which features a severed head with bat wings, and more dead shit. The third film, Beyond Re-Animator, centers on a prison, where West, alive again but not reanimated, is incarcerated. Of course, bad shit happens again, as he turns the prison upside-down. The third installment has none of the charm of the first film, and even less than the second. In fact, if you could measure charm, it would fall somehow below zero.
So in case you're in the mood for some hilariously goofy, bad cinema, I wholeheartedly suggest the first two Re-Animator films. Leave the last one alone.
No comments:
Post a Comment