5/10
third time lacks the charm
3 September 2005
Little Howard Phillips watches his sister get killed by one of Dr. Herbert West's re-animated experiments. Now thirteen years later, Howard now a doctor himself meets Dr. West again in the prison he's being held in. Dr. Phillips is endlessly intrigued by West's ability to re-animate corpses. So now both man continue his experiments once more. But when a investigative journalist, Laura, whom Howard was having an affair with is killed and they take it upon themselves to bring her back using the re-animation formula with an addition of NEE, which is discharged from the brain at the moment of death, the feces really hits the fan. This third film in the series is OK, Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West still delights, but the absence of Bruce Abbot as his collaborator/foil, Dan Cain, is sorely missed. Tommy Musset just can't compare and the film lacks the sheer manic energy of the original or even "Bride"

My Grade: C-

Eye Candy: Elsa Pataky shows very brief left nip; Raquel Gribler shows better boobage

DVD Extras:Commentary by director Brian Yuzna; a 17 minute and 16 second Making of; Music Video by Dr. Re-Animator, "Move your dead bones, bones, bones!"; Theatrical trailer; and trailers for "Cabin Fever" & "Faust: Love of the Damned"

Gripes: Why is USA the only nation NOT to release this unrated???
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