 Welcome to today's edition of Frightfully Forgotten, but to start things off, what are we drinking? Uh, near-dark, check-dark lager. Today we are doing 1990's Bride of Reanimator. If you couldn't tell from our special intro that we had today, which was actually made for us by a fan, Tyrone Dease. Thank you very much. Directed by Brian Usina, and he did the very weird off-the-wall movie Society, and he also did Return of the Living Dead 3. The movie of course stars Jeffrey Combs, a horror movie legend. He was of course in the first Reanimator. He's in From Beyond, you know, Ken Four and his, uh... His underwear. ...Zergich, of course. He's in Castle Freak, and he's like a Star Trek mainstay in Deep Space Nine. He plays Wei Yun, he plays Liquidator Brunt, in Enterprise he plays Andorian Shran. It also stars Bruce Abbott, who is in the movie Bad Dreams We Just Covered, and people are given a shit for not mentioning the fact he was in the Reanimator movies, so yeah, sorry, we're a bunch of pricks. Lastly, we want to mention Kathleen Kinmont, because she's in Halloween 4. That's right. Combs do it by the book. We're just gonna take out a bit of a rehash from the first one. Herbert and Dan have this reagent that they created. They reanimate dead bodies for experiments. There's Dr. Hill, who's kinda snootin' around, end up killing him, and then they reanimate his head with the reagent. Dr. Hill kinda has this big vendetta against mostly Herbert. In a very small nutshell. This movie starts off about eight months later, and it takes place during a war zone in Peru. We learn that Herbert and Dan are medics. Also there's a girl there that sort of Dan's kind of interested in Francesca, seeing all the stuff sort of behind the scenes, right? This shit hits the fan big time, so Herbert's like, we gotta get out of here, let's get back to America. They're back doing their own routine, right? At the University Hospital. There's a girl who's dying, Gloria, who Dan is kinda smitten with a little bit. Herbert on the other hand, he wants to continue the research. There's this closet or this room in the morgue, the experiments from the first movie, Police Evidence, which is weird because he'd think it'd be in an actual police locker. Yeah, not just in a hospital, for anyone to rifle through. Yeah, yeah, there's not even a lock on the door or anything. Herbert's going in there to steal items for his experiments, picks up a heart, and it turns out to be Dan's old girlfriend's heart from the first movie. He also sees poor Dr. Hill's head wrapped in the bag and kinda just says hello basically. He's also stealing body parts from corpses. So Herbert kinda just fools around and takes a few fingers and an eyeball, kinda stitches them together and uses this reagent, kinda creates this little kind of monster type thing. He's walking around, there's a lieutenant chappam that's been kinda snooping around. And while he's sitting on the couch, there's this little finger monster thing that's kinda going around him, which he doesn't see. And Herbert and Dan are kinda noticing and they're like, you're all trying to get it? And Chapman kinda stands up and just throws a book on it unwittingly and crushes the poor thing. There's a doctor at Graves, he works in the morgue, looking around and he catches a vial of this reagent and he also sees Dr. Hill's head. So naturally what are you gonna do, right? Well, you're gonna use the reagent on the head and it revives Dr. Hill. I saw you at that conference in Zurich, idiotic garbage, just him starts giving him shit right away. Dr. Graves just kinda shook up about the whole thing, he mixes all his whiskey in one of those beakers with that giant stir stick, drinks it down, takes Dr. Hill's head, wraps it in a towel and just throws it in the garbage. Dan's kind of had enough of these experiments. Herbert has Megan's heart and entices Dan to keep the experiments going because what we'll do is we'll put the heart in a new body and Megan will live again. One day we're trying to steal this dead body out of the hospital, they have it in like a wheelchair and it's- Kinda like Weekend at Bernie's? Weekend at Bernie's style, trying to get it out of the hospital, they run into Francesco, her and Dan start hitting it off, like this guy's a fucking horn dog, he's falling in love with like the dying girl, he's in love with a friend, Jessica. They strike up a date. So then she comes over for her date and her and Dan are getting a little kind of frisky, Lieutenant Chapman was broken into the house and confronts Herbert in the laboratory. They get into a big fight, they're knocking over all his lab equipment and Dan comes down like what the hell did you just do with this guy's investigating us and you just go and kill him like now they're really gonna nail our asses to the wall, right? He used to say he's dead and he uses the reagent to re-animate him and well now it's a zombie Lieutenant Chapman, kills Francesco's dog, he just grabs it, yeah. The patient that Dan has been spitting with, Gloria, she dies. The first thing that Herbert does, well he steals her head, of course. Yeah, that's what you do, yeah. Zombie Lieutenant Chapman has made his way to the hospital and found Dr. Hill's head, Dr. Graves and forces Dr. Graves to kind of perform the surgery and put these bat wings onto the head of Dr. Hill. Dan's kind of done, right? And he's like, I've had enough and then Herbert reveals their experiment. He's put the head of Gloria on the body to kind of cap it off. Yeah. So it's got Gloria's head, Megan's heart, they're about to revive the body. In the meantime, the head of Dr. Hill and Zombie Chapman and a couple of other zombie things are kind of approaching the house to get their revenge and that's where we're going to stop the plot. If you want to see what happens at the end of Brighter Reanimator, finish watching the movie. This movie is pretty wicked as a sequel, right? Oh yeah, for a sequel it's great. Like why did we see it when we were kids? I think because the movie cover was so shitty, it was just like, again, like it was just like Dr. West like this, like, okay, well it just looks like the first movie and whatever and I don't want to watch a shitty version of the first movie, I won't bother. Right. I think it's kind of, the title kind of has a bit to play with it too, right? At least for me, it's like the Bride of the Reanimator, like, well it's just like the Bride of Frankenstein, like, I don't feel like watching it. But it's actually a super legit sequel and one of the coolest things about it, it is a direct continuation, it's not just a rehash. The same fucking characters. Same cast. They literally continue the movie. We're trying to put together this episode and it's kind of tough because there's all these subplots, all these parallel plots running at once. It's not simple, it's not a simple movie. It's a very smart sequel and it's done cohesively, like extremely cohesively. There's all this stuff going on but it manages to stay on point. And it all converges at the end, all these kind of subplots all meet at the end. Exactly. And it kind of rounds everything out and finishes the job, right? You have the plot of Herbert and Dan continuing their work and Herbert always kind of like controlling Dan and then there's the other plot of Dr. Heel's head getting reanimated and trying to find its way back to getting its revenge. And there's also the subplot of like the Lieutenant trying to get them. Exactly. Yeah, there's a lot going on. How does Dr. Heel's head manage to do all of these things? Because he's a very persuasive head. It's just the head! Come on! And he gets a lot done. Exactly, fuck. Very productive head. More than most whole bodies can get done in their entire lifetime. The production value of this movie is amazing. It's great, like the stop motion animation of all the little creatures that Herbert makes is great. The laboratory sets and like the underground crypt and all that stuff. All of the shots outside of their house with the fog and everything, little cemetery and stuff. And all the kind of vivid lighting, it still has that look of the original reanimated with all like the very hard green... Comedy is wicked in this movie, right? They don't overdo it. Not unless they have to. And they know where to do it, too. Exactly, yeah. I mean, it's done in a smart way. It's very hard to make, I think, a really good horror comedy because they try sometimes too hard with the comedy and try to make it too funny. And then it's just too silly and stupid. Right, yeah. And this movie has a perfect balance of the horror and the comedy. Yeah, and it also plays well with the subject matter because the reanimating corpse is so it's kind of done in a silly way because they're not experts at this. You can go over the top of that. You just got to make sure to do it in a proper way. I like how it's a kind of a neat parallel with the original Frankenstein story. Herbert West is Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he creates is actually Dan. Right. Because he's always controlling Dan and making Dan do these awful things. Kind of created this monster, which is Dan. In the book, what does the monster want? A bride. And in this movie, what is Dan always looking for? A woman. I'm going to build you a woman. Right. The perfect woman. Yeah, just like in the book, right? The original one and this one, it kind of mirrors what really happened, you know, two, three hundred years ago with like actual experiments that real doctors did, right? They dug up corpses. It was weird shit. It was weird shit to like learn anatomy and stuff like that, right? I kind of like how it mirrors this. It's weird and all those weird Nazi experiments and stuff. Yeah, yeah. It's strange, eh? Like Herbert is kind of like that and he gets more and more corrupt while he's doing it too, right? He's gone past the point of doing it for the benefit of science. The characters in this movie are great and the fact that they're able to keep most of the characters, like all the major characters from the first movie, into the second one to break them apart would be blasphemy, right? Exactly, yeah. You just wouldn't have the same mesh as it does, right? You take one person out and everything collapses around you, right? Jeffrey Combs almost wasn't in this movie, right? Right, he had prior engagements to shoot another movie and I think that kind of fell through. So he was able to do this, but like what would they have done if they couldn't get him on board? They would have to write like a completely different script. Yeah, and it just, it wouldn't have worked. Plain and simple. So why would you make this movie without Jeffrey Combs? Why would you even think about it, right? For the money. I guess. If you ever kind of put Riot every animator aside just because you thought it was a cheap sequel, don't. Yeah. Please just watch it because it's as good, if not I think sometimes even better than the original. I kind of prefer this a little more. I kind of enjoy this more than the original. Not to say it's better, but I enjoy it more than the original because it's more, it's more over the top. Right. There's more madness. It's a little bit more silly. There's a bit more action, you know, the ending is crazy, you know, the shit really hits the fan. Yeah. You really get to see all this weird stuff that Herbert was up to, and it also kind of leaves it open for another sequel. And until next time. Keep drinking. And if you die from drinking, you can get the reagent and come back to life. Fuck alcohol poor thing. Yeah, exactly.