Beyond Re-Animator is a 2003 Spanish-American[1] horror film directed by Brian Yuzna and starring Jeffrey Combs, Jason Barry, Elsa Pataky, Simón Andreu and Santiago Segura.

The film received a limited theatrical run in the U.S. and was assigned an R rating, and a slightly longer unrated cut was released on home media in some countries.

In the meantime, journalist Laura Olney, covering a story for her newspaper at the prison, meets and begins an affair with Dr. Phillips, and they fall in love.

[3] As Yuzna had exhausted the source material of the original H. P. Lovecraft short story Herbert West–Reanimator, he approached writer John Penney, with whom he had collaborated on Return of the Living Dead 3, for potential ideas for continuation.

[3] The initial draft of the film would've brought back Bruce Abbott's Dan Cain who turned state's evidence against West and is now a successful, albeit vice ridden, transplant surgeon who is using what remains of West's re-animation serum in his surgical procedures and is forced by a politically ambitious district attorney to use the re-animaion serum on a serial killer's recently deceased victim in order to catch them.

[5] Jonathan Holland of Variety writes that the film is "sometimes shocking but rarely scary" and "calculated to appeal only to hardcore gore hounds.

[8] In their book Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft, Andrew Migliore and John Strysik write: "If your idea of Lovecraftian fun is Combs' acidic one-liners, and digitally enhanced gore effects that weren't available for the other two films, then by all means have a look.

"[9] Zombiemania: 80 Movies to Die For author Arnold T. Blumberg wrote that "Beyond Re-Animator is better than its immediate predecessor" and that "Combs slips back into the white shirt and black tie, wielding the hypo of green goo like he never put it down, but his performance is nicely tempered by the passage of time, giving us a West that lacks some of his youthful confidence but none of his single-minded desire to pursue 'The Work.

He commented that Jeffrey Combs is still outstanding in the role of Herbert West, but his performance is muted due to a complete lack of strong co-stars to play off of.

[3] The film would've seen Stuart Gordon as director and Dennis Paoli as writer and also would've seen the return of Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West and Bruce Abbott as Dan Cain.

[3] Further attempts were made by Yuzna and John Penney in pitching a reboot of Re-Animator and while they were met with interest from companies such as Warner Bros., the two abandoned this route when the studios showed interest primarily in the name recognition and intended to play Re-Animator as a dark and serious horror film in contrast to the more darkly comedic nature of the prior films.