Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jeffrey Combs | ... | Dr. Herbert West | |
Bruce Abbott | ... | Dr. Dan Cain | |
Claude Earl Jones | ... | Lt. Leslie Chapham | |
Fabiana Udenio | ... | Francesca Danelli | |
David Gale | ... | Doctor Carl Hill | |
Kathleen Kinmont | ... | Gloria | |
Mel Stewart | ... | Dr. Graves | |
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Irene Cagen | ... | Nurse Shelley (as Irene Forrest) |
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Michael Strasser | ... | Ernest |
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Mary Sheldon | ... | Meg Halsey |
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Marge Turner | ... | The Re-Animated: Elizabeth Chapham |
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Johnny Legend | ... | The Re-Animated: Skinny Corpse |
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David Bynum | ... | The Re-Animated: Black Corpse |
Noble Craig | ... | The Re-Animated: Crypt Creature | |
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Kim Parker | ... | The Re-Animated: Crypt Creature |
In Peru, Dr. Herbert West and Dr. Dan Cain are medical volunteers in a civil war with the assistant Francesca Danelli and they are researching how to create human life from dead tissue using wounded soldiers as guinea pigs. They return to Miskatonic Hospital and Dan treats a terminal patient, Gloria, and gets close to her. When the snoopy Lt. Leslie Chapham investigates the Miskatonic Massacre, he learns that body parts are missing in the morgue, and Herbert and Dan become his prime suspects. But Herbert kills the lieutenant and revives him with the serum. Meanwhile, Dr. Graves finds the head of Dr. Carl Hill and the green substance that the deceased doctor stole from Herbert, and uses the serum to resurrect Dr. Hill's head. When Gloria dies, Herbert and Dan use her head, with Meg's heart and parts of other women to create the perfect woman. But Lt. Chapham teams up with Dr. Hill to seek revenge against the crazy scientists. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dr. West and Dr. Cain strike back again! This film is very similar to Frank "Basket Case" Henenlotter´s "Frankenhooker", but obviously shot with a higher budget and a more elaborated story. It never reached the status from its predecessor, the unique "Re-Animator" directed by Stuart Gordon, but it´s worth to be watched in any case! Especially Dr. West´s weird creatures like four spider-looking combined fingers, a strange symbiosis between arm and foot, and a dog whose leg was replaced by a human arm make "Bride of Re-Animator" being a bizarre pleasure! At the end Dr. Hill and some creepy zombie maniacs storm the laboratory and destroy the property. Dr. West seems to be dead, but recently I read on IMDb about the production of "Beyond Re-Animator" - starring Bruce Abott and Jeffrey Combs...