Synopsis

After 13 years in prison, Herbert West resumes his experiments when young physician Howard Phillips arrives at the penitentiary. Phillips hopes to learn West's secret of restoring the dead, but the doctor's research has evolved into a new method for preserving consciousness in reanimated bodies. As the experiments spread through the prison, scientific ambition gives way to violent chaos.

Factoids & Trivia

• Beyond Re-Animator is the third film in the Re-Animator series, following Re-Animator (1985) and Bride of Re-Animator (1989).

• The film was an international co-production involving Spain and the United States, and it was produced through Fantastic Factory, Filmax's genre-film label.

• It is the only entry in the series filmed entirely outside the United States. Production took place in Spain.

• Fantastic Factory had already produced Faust, Dagon, Arachnid and Darkness before making this film.

• This is the only Re-Animator installment without Bruce Abbott's character, Dan Cain.

• The story draws on H.P. Lovecraft's short story "Herbert West-Reanimator," the same source that inspired the earlier films.

• The film originally premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel in a television edit carrying a TV-PG rating.