Herbert West is at it again, and this time he and his partner Dr. Cain doesn't just re-animate the dead, but they actually create life. West wants to rebuild Cain's dead girlfriend and while Cain is not into it at first, he later accepts and helps West out. They already have the girlfriends heart and continues to build her by stealing different body parts from the hospital. But West have to watch out, since the police is onto him, and at the same time his old arch enemy Dr. Hill is back from the dead to cause him trouble as well.
Bride of Re-Animator continues a while after where Re-Animator left off. We find West and Cain in Peru, working as medics 8 months after the massacre at the hospital from the first movie. But they soon return to Arkham Hospital and starts to work there as doctors once again. This time West wants to create life, and he tries his stuff out on all kinds of things. For instance he puts one arm and one leg together and makes it live. He puts a few fingers and an eyeball together and makes that live as well. The movie has a lot of crazy shit like that in it, and that is just one thing that makes it almost great.
Dr. Graves, another man working at the Arkham Hospital stumbles across West's green re-animation stuff and injects it into Dr. Hill's head. And suddenly West's old enemy is alive once again, and now wants to seek revenge. What West wants to achieve in Bride of Re-Animator is, just like the title says, is to create a bride, and it's all something like Bride of Frankenstein, just like it was with Frankenhooker.
 
So he takes Dr. Cain's dead girlfriend Linda's heart, and then he starts stealing different body part from the hospital. Since body parts keep going missing, the police is called in to investigate, and a detective is soon on West's case. There's a lot of stuff going on at all times, and it all makes for a sleazy, gory and funny piece film. For being a sequel, it's actually really good, and if you liked the first movie, there's no way you'll be disappointed with Bride of Re-Animator. It has the same amount of gore, basically the same actors, the main ones at least, the dark humour and all the oddities you wanna see when it comes to this type of film.
I thought the first movie had more direct humour and was a bit funnier than this sequel, although the humour's still there and you'll recognize it if you've seen the original. Looking at Bride of Re-Animator from a horror point of view, this movie is quite awesome. Towards the end there are different kinds of somewhat intense horror, and even if it's funny at times, all the horror is not super comical. Near the end when Dr. West goes through the brick wall in his lab and faces all kinds of strange creations that dwells there, it actually gets a bit freaky. So in the end it's a perfect mix of horror and comedy, as usually when it comes to horror comedies, a lot of them are just too focused on the comical side of things.
If you liked Re-Animator, you'll like Bride of Re-Animator for sure, and if you haven't seen these movies yet, you should try and look them up. Once again Jeffrey Combs truly delivers as the eccentric and somewhat insane Dr. West, and he's always a hoot to watch. Recommended.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Re-Animator 2
MOVIE YEAR: 1990
DIRECTOR: Brian Yuzna
WRITING CREDITS: Rick Fry, Woody Keith
GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Sci-Fi
CAST: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Fabiana Udenio
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 96 min
RATING: 8/10
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