Beyond Re-Animator

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Justin T @RT08580778 Jul 14 Beyond starts strongly but not as good as Bride. Somehow this visually looks the worst of the trilogy. The acting and characters are the weakest too, excluding Jeffrey Combs who is excellent as always. Except for the great new version of the theme music during the opening, the music is weak as well. At least the dialogue quality sounds excellent. It has such a strong concept with disappointing execution. The chaos of the lunatics taking over the asylum was disappointingly unchaotic. There are some really fantastic practical gore effects, but the digital effects have not aged well. It’s entertaining but far from a classic, stick to the first two and skip this one as it’s a bit dubious. Very disappointing ending, really lacked a conclusion or coherence. It probably leaned too heavily into the comedy side to cover the other flaws. Ultimately I think I blame the direction for the drop in quality compared to the previous. See more Andy B @RT49744558 06/08/2024 H. P. Lovecraft is a very difficult author to adapt for the screen. His monsters tend to be of the cosmic and inexplicable variety and his protagonists usually end up as dribblingly insane or lunch for whatever eldritch being they have encountered. So with Herbert West, they have done a very good of taking a short story, expanding and piling on the gore for a modern audience. This is the third installation and see Howard West incarcerated. He meets a doctor called Howard Phillips (they really didn't work too hard for that name, did they) and together they start the usual experiments. From there it's the usual descent into madness with the mad scientists getting worse and worse with each action they take. What keeps this, and the other two films, together is Jeffrey Combs. His Herbert West is believably insane, highly active and clearly completely amoral. Without Combs, these films would not work but with him, they carry you through the ridiculous plots so that we can appreciate the dark humour and so that we can walk that line between sanity and insanity that Howard walks. See more Cees T @RT15093300 10/21/2023 5.7 - Rather dubious. See more tiago d @RT59041212 09/14/2022 Filme divertido! Menos criativo que os anteriores, com algumas cenas desnecessaria. A torca de parceria do protagonista não convence muito e a make nesse está ruim. Porém serve para estender a diversão para os fãs dos dois primeiros filmes See more 01/10/2022 Despite the fact it's decades later, this movie still manages to keep some of the absurd fun and flavor of the 80s stuff, while also bringing in some fresh ideas and whole new age of lunacy. See more 09/16/2021 It's like the director got a stale bag of cliches from the top shelf, put them in a blender and then poured them over Re-Animator skeleton. It could have worked much better as a silly comedy, but only the last act is funny. See more Read all reviews

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