 
Dr.
Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) is still helping
out his mad scientist friend Dr. Herbert
West (Jeffrey Combs) with his re-animated
experiments while he's trying to help his
sick girlfriend Francesca Danelli
(Fabiano Udenio) get better but yet she's
dying.
Herbert suggests her to be re-animated
but he refuses and later on takes his
word for it and almost loses his mind if
he doesn't have her back in his life
again once she died by using her preserved
brain and body parts scrounged from the
local hospital which
may change her in a bad way while others
including Hebert are battling against the
re-animated corpses that escaped a
labratory.
I had fun watching
this sequel in which it introduces some
new shocking moments and having other
types of events too. It still had some of
the same chemistry like zombie like
reanimated dead bodies as well as some
cheesy argumentive dialogues between a
decaptiated head of a crazy doctor
against another doctor in a science lab
but however there's situations with a
sick patient that's dying showing some
good emotions between one of the lead
actors against this helpless person.
There's still dark comedy used in this
film but not as much and it focuses more
on the horror elements which is what I
liked. Plus there's good zombie scene's
that reminds me of other zombie flicks
like Night of the Living Dead
or even Return of the Living Dead
and it works well with the timing on all
of this.
Plus the mad scientist character named
Herbert West turns out to be a hero a
quarter way through in the film and his
sidekick Dr. Dan Cain seems to go a
little crazy which is a different twist
to this sequel.
There's also good goofy moments with an
obnoxious Lt. Leslie Chapman acting
obnoxious with everyone that blends in
well with what the story is about and
even acts like this once re-animated but
behaving even more deadly but still
offering some chuckles too proving that
some good comedy can mix with horror.
Plus near the end of the film with a
woman being resurrected as a reanimator
looked like it was spoofing on those old
fashioned monster movies such as Bride
of Frankenstein which was
probably what the filmmakers were trying
to do.
Bottom line is this sequel meets up to
the original but I'm not a huge fan of
this one like the first but it has alot
of effective and gruesome moments showing
people having surgery and the remains of
them which looks real as well as good
special effects too. Anyone who's a fan
of H.P. Lovecraft or the first
film will probably get a kick out of this
one too.
The acting is
still in good shape in which there's a
nice tense performance by Jeffrey
Combs as Dr. Herbert West who still
knew how to behave disturbed and having a
real outrageous eccentric attitude but
yet he is a little more calm compared to
the first flick proving he can bring some
other types of characteristics to his
role.
Bruce Abbott as his sidekick Dr. Dan
Cain still brings on a good romantic
charming attitude to his behavior
especially towards women as well as
almost losing his mind when it came to
certain crazy situations in the film. He
brought out some good characterisitcs
with what he had to do.
Claude Earl Jones certainly knew how
to bring some wit to the story as the
obnoxious Lt. Leslie Chapman with his
violent attitude and strong aggressions.
He also does wonderfully as a reborn
reanimator too by acting like a dead
version of this character and going
crazy. I found him to be the best
supporting character actor of them all.
Fabiano
Udenio was certainly convincing as a
sick patient really knowing how to act
groggy and out of it. She also drew
attention very well as a born again
reanimator with her lively attitude and
aggressive and emotional behavior too.
She had showed of spunk to her role
indeed.
David Gale as Dr. Carl Hill knew how
to act anxious and frusterated which he
brought good timing to his dark comedy in
his role and was full of life with his
performance in it. He was one of the good
key roles to this plot and brought it out
terrifically by doing so.
Kathleen Kinmont had the beautiful
looks which was another key member to the
film along with having a good girl type
of attitude along with knowing how to act
shocked and frightened too. I liked her
role and she brought some good charisma
to her part in it along with everyone
else.
There's a brief breast shot
on Kathleen Kinmont while making
out in bed with a hand clapping on her
breast.
There's full breasts revealed towards Fabiano
Udenio lying there dead on a
stretcher as well as being reborn into a
re-animator.
There's many body
parts and insides revealed in the science
lab
There's a decapitated head
A dog's leg is torn off
A dissecting knife is cut in the middle
of a dead patient
Animals insides are revealedwhile being
dissected
A heart is taken out
A griuesome looking creation on a
re-animator with her skin almost falling
off
A body is split into many pieces
Brian Yuzna still
does the trick with his work like in the
previous film in which there's good
intense dialogues between both Jeffrey
Combs and Bruce Abbott in
the beginning together in their tent
serving a war which shows some good
energy with the two of them planning out
stuff.
There's some good camera shots between Abbott
and Fabiano Udenio as doctor and
sick patient in which seems to work well
with him trying to take care of her and
then a good approach by Combs
suggesting to him she should be an
experiment which Abbott does
well being blunt back to him.
There's a good scene with Claude
Beeman Jones getting stern and
demanding towards both Combs and
Abbott talking about a situation
sitting near a couch with a shot on one
of the experiments wanding around him
which looked funny as you wonder if he
will notice.
There's nice shots on Combs in a
science lab talking to a decatitated head
acting crazy and taunting towards it
which looked quite impressive.
There's a good aggressive dialogue
between David Gale as the
decapiated head and Mel Stewart
with shots on Stewart stuffing Gale's
face with an apple and almost losing it
with him. The directing on this looked
very slapstick but in a good fashion just
like in the original.
There's a great shot on bit part actors
like Marge Turner, David
Bynum, Noble Craig and Kim
Parker as reanimated creatures
ganging up on Kathleen Kinmont
in a room covering her.
There's a nice close up shot between Abbott
caressing Kinmont in bed by
touching her breast and speaking softly
to her which looked very calm and gentle
like.
There's a great moment with Jones
trying to attack Combs and
getting obnoxious with him by trying to
whack him with a shovel and nice blocking
movements on Combs dodging him.
There's a great powerful moment with Jones
being reborn into a reanimated zombielike
character and being menacing towards a
dog and throwing it as well as Kinmont
screaming and freaking out at him after
she encounters this.
There's a nice moment with Kinmont
discovering her dog near a door and
calling to it and then a hand grabbing
her belonging to the dog now with a good
shot on her looking wide eyed and
screaming which was energetically
directed.
There's lots of good horror moments with
the characters like Turner,
Bynum, Craig and Parker
outside near a graveyard trying to attack
others as well as Jones coming
around the corner to try and attack Kinmont
with her screaming.
There's many great takes between Abbott
and Combs doing an experiment
with Udenio lying dead on the floor in
which it almost looked like a parody of
mad scientists on how it was done.
There's a good shot on Udenio
rising up and then having a struggling
battle with Kinmont.
There's a great moment with Abbott
acting upset and telling Udenio
she's dead and being upset with her
screaming in a rage and going crazy with
her intense words and actions which was
the best direction of them all.
The music was brought
together nicely by Richard Band
with alot of nice high type synthesizer
playing along with some smooth sounding
clarinet and orchestral playing in which
many of the sounds for this film is
similar to his playing in the Puppet
Master flicks which made this
film sound just as effective too.
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