Bride of Re-Animator 4K 1990

It seems to me that this is one of those rare cases where the sequel surpasses the original. Basically, it’s the same thing—Combs’s brilliant performance, an atmosphere of lighthearted mayhem, and colorful reanimated corpses—but it’s somehow become even funnier and more vibrant. In many ways, perhaps, this was facilitated by the new obsession of the talented experimentalist West: creating hybrids from disjointed body parts. As a result, viewers are entertained by such products of unnatural selection as a finger-eye, a hand-leg, and a paw-handed dog (the scene where this very dog shakes a girl’s hand is, in my opinion, one of the funniest gags in the history of cinema).

Of course, calling this work by Yuzna a horror film is like calling, say, Tarantino’s *Inglourious Basterds* a historical chronicle. It’s a genuine comedy—and a wild, wildly funny one at that.

For the ladies, the film also features a romantic subplot—admittedly not entirely traditional, but there it is nonetheless. Can the heart of a woman made up of body parts from different people still love? That’s a question, too.

And Dr. Hill’s flying head with bat wings instead of ears at the end of the film—that’s on purpose: for those who stubbornly thought they were watching a horror movie after all.