Beyond Re Animator

Beyond ReAnimator is a 2003 Spanish horror film directed by Brian Yuzna and starring Jeffrey Combs, Jason Barry, Simn Andreu, Elsa Pataky and Santiago Segura. It is the third installment of the ReAnimator film series.

For the pastyears, Dr. Herbert West Jeffrey Combs has been serving a prison sentence due to a murder at the hands of one of his zombies. With what scant supplies he has on hand in the prison medical center, Dr. West has been capable of performing only extremely basic experiments on rats. However, his lack of supplies does not prevent him from uncovering a key element in his reanimation process. Dr. West has discovered NPE NanoPlasmic Energy, an energy that can be extracted from the brain of a living organism through an electrocutionlike process, to be stored in a capsule resembling a small light bulb. The capsule can then be connected to a corpse and used in conjunction with Wests previously developed reagent to restore the former dead to a lifelike state. The NPE prevents the degeneration seen in previous instances, where the reanimated are nothing more than mindless zombies. Used together with the reagent, reanimated corpses regain their skills, memories, and motor functions and nearly fully resemble normal humans.When a young doctor named Howard Phillips Jason Barry comes to work at the prison, West is assigned to assist the new doctor. Due to Phillips interest with Dr. Wests research, West is able to attain the supplies and tools needed to bring his experiments to the next level. It is revealed that Phillips is the younger brother of the teenage girl who was killed by Wests zombie hes shown watching West being taken away by the cops and came to the prison for the explicit purpose of working with him. Despite his interest, Phillips still maintains an ethical reluctance to allow Wests research to full completion. In the meantime, journalist Laura Olney Elsa Pataky, covering a story for her newspaper at the prison, meets and begins an affair with Dr. Phillips, and they fall in love. This new romance only temporarily postpones Wests experiment, however. After the warden of the prison, also infatuated with Laura, attempts to seduce Laura himself, she resists and

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