Brian Yuzna’s bloody sequel comes to Blu-ray in a deluxe, 3-disc set.
Genre home video leaders Arrow Video have announced April 11th as the drop date for their deluxe, Blu-ray, 2K restoration, 3-disc (!) release of Brian Yuzna’s wonky but really, really wet sequel BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR and it comes stocked with the kind of insane wealth of extra content that Arrow is known and loved for.
In case you haven’t seen this sick and silly flick, here’s the official synopsis:
It has been eight months since the bloody massacre at Miskatonic Medical School. Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr West (again played by Jeffrey Combs) continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life starting with the heart of his young protégé Dans dearly deceased, Meg Halsey. Surely nothing could go wrong?
Surely it does!
While merely an echo of the Yuzna/Stuart Gordon original, BRIDE is still tons of fun and Arrow make the purchase totally worth while.
(And as an aside, on the Yuzna tip, one really hopes a full-blown, unrated love letter to the director’s best film, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD III, is just around the bend…)
Here’s a look at the full list of BRIDE’s special features:
Special Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 3-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- Brand new 2K restorations of the Unrated and R-Rated versions of the film, approved by director Brian Yuzna
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
- Original Stereo 2.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays)
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Digipak packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin
- Collectors booklet featuring new writing on the film by festival programmer Michael Blyth
- Re-Animator: Dawn of the Re-Animator the official comic book prequel to the original Re-Animator
DISC 1 [BLU-RAY] & DISC 2 [DVD] UNRATED VERSION
- Brand new 2K restoration of the Unrated version
- Brand new audio commentary with director Brian Yuzna
- Audio commentary with Brian Yuzna, star Jeffrey Combs, special effects co-ordinator Thomas Rainone and the effects team including John Buechler, Mike Deak, Robert Kurtzman, Howard Berger and Screaming Mad George
- Audio commentary with stars Jeffrey Combs and Bruce Abbott
- Brian Yuzna Remembers Bride of Re-Animator brand new featurette in which the director looks back at the making of the first Re-Animator sequel
- Splatter Masters: The Special Effects Artists of Bride of Re-Animator brand new FX featurette with a wealth of behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Robert Kurtzman of KNB, Screaming Mad George, Tony Doublin and John Buechler
- Getting Ahead in Horror archive making-of featurette
- Meg is Re-Animated deleted scene with behind-the-scenes footage
- Carnival Sequence the cast and crew discuss this excised sequence
DISC 3 [BLU-RAY] R-RATED VERSION LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE
- Brand new 2K restoration of the R-Rated version
- Behind-the-Scenes Reel
RE-ANIMATOR: DAWN OF THE RE-ANIMATOR LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE
- Perfect-bound booklet containing Re-Animator: Dawn of the Re-Animator, the 1992 comic prequel to Stuart Gordons original Re-Animator, reprinted in its entirety
