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Synopsis:

After ?Re-Animator? and ?The Bride of Re-Animator?, Brian Yuzna brings us the sequel of the Doctor Herbert West.

A dozen years later we find West is an inmate at a forbidding old Prison. In spite of his incarceration, West has been continuing his Re-animation research, using rats and mice for subjects, and electrocuting them with a special jerry-rigged apparatus. West has now identified an electrical phenomenon ? the NPE ? which is discharged from the brain at the moment of death?and which may be the ?missing link? in his studies: if the Neuroplasm is re-injected into a Re-animated Corpse, it should restore the ?subject? to full ?reason?...

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LIONS GATE BUYS FILMAX FRIGHT
SPANISH CO. COMMITTED TO ENGLISH-LINGO SPLATTER MATTER

Lions Gate Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to four horror pics from Spain's Filmax Group: Jack Sholder's "Arachnid"; "Dagon," from Stuart Gordon; and two titles from Brian Yuzna, "Faust" and "Beyond Re-Animator." Underscoring the worldwide demand for genre chiller pics, the quartet of pickups further vindicates Filmax's bold leap into English-lingo splatter matter last year when it created a horror pic franchise, the Fantastic Factory.

At the London Screenings last week, Dimension Films picked up two other pieces of Filmax scare fare, Jaume Balaguero's psychological thrillers "Darkness," an upcoming English-lingo pic, and his acclaimed 1999 film "The Nameless," shot in Spanish.

Tapping int'l market

Barcelona-based Filmax's tentacles reach into animation and TV production, all-rights pic distribution and exhibition. Filmax entered pic production in 1995, aiming always to tap the international market.

Directed by Filmax chairman Julio Fernandez and Yuzna ("The Progeny," "Return of the Living Dead III"), the Fantastic Factory meshes seasoned U.S. genre directors and technicians with Spanish technical backup and mostly U.S. thesps.

The franchise is also developing pics by young Spanish helmers, led by Juanma Bajo Ulloa's upcoming medieval comicbook epic "Captain Thunder."

Filmax's films reimagine classic genre pic plots. In "Arachnid," for example, an alien spider picnics on inhabitants of a not very Pacific isle, while "Faust" is set in a futuristic world.

Part of franchise

"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to distribute these films and become part of the classic 'Re-Animator' franchise," said Peter Block, Lions Gate's president of home entertainment/acquisitions.

"As a distributor of many Lions Gate films, I now feel very enthusiastic about this company releasing my productions in the U.S. and Canada," Fernandez said. "I believe there will be more to come."

The Mifed-announced deal was negotiated on behalf of Lions Gate by Block and acquisitions VP Guy Stodel. Negotiating on behalf of Filmax were president Carlos Fernandez, sales senior VP Antonia Nava and legal affairs executive Eduardo Escudero.

(Emiliano de Pablos contributed to this report.)
By JOHN HOPEWELL, www.variety.com

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Cast

Herbert West JEFFREY COMBS
Howard Philips JASON BARRY
Laura Olney ELSA PATAKY
Cabrera ENRIQUE ARCE
Moses Jones NICO BAIXAS
Sargeant Moncho LOLO HERRERO
Nurse Vanessa RAQUEL GRIBLER
With Simon Andreu
Special Appearance by Santiago Segura as Speed Ball

Crew

Directed by BRIAN YUZNA
Produced by JULIO FERNÁNDEZ
- BRIAN YUZNA
Executive producer JULIO FERNÁNDEZ
- CARLOS FERNÁNDEZ
Story by MIGUEL TEJADA FLORES
Screenplay by JOSÉ MANUEL GÓMEZ
Line producer TERESA GEFAELL
Production designer LLORENÇ MIQUEL
Director of photography ANDREU REBES
Editor BERNAT VILAPLANA
Sound PEPE CÁCERES
- ORIOL TARRAGÓ
Music XAVI CAPELLAS
First AD FERNANDO IZQUIERDO
Costume designer CATOU VERDIER
Make-up KAROL TORNARIA
Special make-up and mechanical FX Screaming Mad George, Inc; RHK; EFE-X and De Diego

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Lions Gate