Whether developing an oxygen-powered, rocket-launching motorbike in Cyclone, building a consciousness-altering machine in From Beyond, or creating a substance that revives the dead in Re-Animator, Jeffrey Combs cornered the mad scientist market in the ‘80s. He then continued to defy the laws of physics, nature, and reality as we know it in his first film of the ‘90s, which first grossed out audiences 35 years ago today.
A scheduling conflict had initially ruled Combs out of Bride of Re-Animator, a follow-up to Re-Animator’s infamously blood-splattered horror-comedy take on Lovecraft. But when the filming of another Stuart Gordon gorefest, The Pit and the Pendulum, hit a stumbling block, the actor was able to reprise his most famous role.
