Do you know how hard it is to make friends in grad school? You just kind of end up hanging out with your roommates and committing crimes against humanity in Peru.

One thing I've noticed about the scene where Herbert suddenly rejects the Bride is that it only happens after Dan calls her a monster. I don't know, could just be the insane script of this movie, but I like to think that's what it meant. Another situation of Herbert being insanely jealous and possessive while also craving Dan's validation and not getting it.

bride of the re-animator is my favorite genre of horror movie: a sequel where not only did the main character not learn from the first one, they actively double down on the bad decision. triple down, even. it's so good. i have very normal and chill feelings about herbert west

Bride of reanimator just wants to be loved. This lack of love causes her to literally disintegrate. I feel that so very hard.

Jeffery Combs himself has described West as asexual, which feels right to me. his only love is the scientific pursuit, and Dan is just easily manipulated into helping him. not the most positive ace representation, but maybe my favorite, lol.

You know the old saying: “when all you have is a re-animator, everyone is just dead body to reanimate”

They cut Hill's psychic powers from the first movie, but there are still several scenes in the final cut of Hill clearly "hypnotizing" characters--including West.

"I don't care if puppets get hurt... I only care if they get wet." -Midred "Wet-Puppet Officionado" Horrorslimes

Funny little theory I’ve always had for why Herbert is back is very simple- homie’s been shooting himself up with reanimator juice from day one (great cut scene on that in the og) so he just straight up wormed his way outta there. This films such fun I love it so so much, even though there’s just no structure. Those two doctors are married, they’re MARRIED! They’re literally the most toxic couple and yet! I adore them so

Dan's big flaw is that he can't accept death. He doesn't want anybody to die (specially attractive women), and that's how Herbert controls him "come on Dan! You can't quit now, I know all our previous attempts to bring people back to life have failed, but we're getting close, I know _this time_ we will be successful. We are _this close_ from resurrecting someone without it turning into a murderous zombie, just _stay with me a little more"_ Textbook toxic relationship

with herbert's monologue about creation and the failures of god and the bride being treated like an unnatural freak of nature by her parents when she just wants to be loved i can confidently say that this is one of the most (unintentionally) transgender movies of all time

You were right! The poor Bride really did get done dirty in this movie. She basically speedruns both the original Frankenstein monster and his bride's character arcs in one movie. :(

"how am i supposed to like these characters, most of them are not even played by Jeffrey Combs!" Fantastic work Mildred, as usual.

Using reanimation to solve your problems caused by reanimation is what we call in the business a "bad plan."

Dan is the ultimate horror himbo.

I, for one, appreciate the visuals Mildred puts visuals in her videos. And if no-one else does, well, that means they're doing it just for me--sausages and all.

the whole "I'm sorry, Is it a crime, to re-animate in this country now?" bit was very funny!

As a morgue explorer, I can confirm they keep many a bat on hand for ooze testing

Im gonna be honest. I followed someone on tumblr who for years got really into reanimator. I learned some of this via osmosis. I think the first time i wanted to watch this was that clip of "he's a wife beater dan, use the gun!" Approx. 10 seconds after bringing the wife beater back to life for whatever reason

Back in ye olde VHS days, the R-rated cut of Re-Animator toned down the gore, added a whole hypnosis subplot, and didn’t show West dying in the ending. The continuity to the sequel was a bit smoother.

Me, a photosensitive fan: Thank you for the very long warning it was extremely helpful. I will enjoy my little podcast Thank you very much.

You know how people avoid saying words for killing people due to KZfaq’s demonetization and etc? I think “de-animated” is my new favorite euphemism for it. I still like “unalived” a lot too.

I've read the Lovecraft story a few times and spent at least several dozen minutes playing a Flash zombie shooting game explicitly inspired by it, and I'm very glad to see that Herbert West's single defining character trait of "reanimates the dead for unclear reasons, and then immediately changes his mind and shoots the reanimated being to re-death" persists across all incarnations of the character.

The dog puppet was hilarious. I didn’t think I’d ever laugh at a dog death in a movie. It was played for laughs, right? They couldn’t have been serious about swinging a puppet overhead, and like, thought that would scare anyone, right?

I’m very excited about the wet puppets shirt i started referring to puppets in horror movies that way to my friends bc of how hard it hits. Had to pause the video to laugh and clap at the “i dont care if puppets get hurt, i only care if they get wet.”

I hope you understand Mildred. We will come JUST to hear how you feel about movies you like, you don't need to put more thought into it than that, we're here for your big beautiful body of work.

You explained the needle censorship in the exact same moment I wondered aloud about it. Great sense of timing.

I like to think that the scene with the dog was just him wanting to show Francesca his new take on the "shake hands" trick

The way West is clutching that dead dog puppet to his chest is sending me. Also thank you very much for the sausage-based needle censoring it genuinely helped me a lot! This episode got me through my mind-numbing physiotherapy exercises also, so many many thanks for that. And I want to hug the Bride too :(

I'm having a hard time thinking of anything else on the internet that makes me as happy as these videos.

You put the visual warnings in for weirdos like me, Mildred. For the weirdos like me.

If the movie had a cohesive story as far as motivations and what happens throughout, I would say that Dan had been traumatized by the loss of Megan to the point that when the bride came to life, he projected his feelings of loss and wanting Megan back on to both the woman they lost in the hospital, and to the bride. It would fit a theme we often see in movies but this one doesn't seem to have the foresight to come up with that and probably just left over script inserts.

I absolutely love Bride of Re-Animator. It has the Bride of Frankenstein vibes, sure, but they also took the time to base some of the visuals, at least a little, on the original Lovecraft stories. The war scenes and the graveyard monsters at the end especially. And now I'm led to understand that I need to get around to watching Beyond Re-Animator within the coming week. OK.

I feel like, and this could just be me seeing something that's not really there, Dan is...not necessarily the most mentally sound? The thing where he calls the bride Megan doesn't feel like a script rewrite leftover to me, it feels like a man driven to madness by grief and that's partvof why he caves to Herbert's thing with the heart earlier

fun fact for the normies: the actress playing Francesca also played Alotta Fagina in the Austin Powers movies.

I love the visuals. Please don't stop them ❤

...Okay. Those bat wings are one hell of a Chekov's gun, just sayin'

I feel like you're setting yourself up for a bunch of recommendations for some kind of drowning-puppet-centric horror franchise (as soon as somebody finds or makes one)

OMG, I was trying to wait until the end of the episode but I can't. Mil-dred, those glasses look *amazing* on you! You look so cute!!!

The wet puppet meme is incredibly niche, I tried to explain it to my friend and he gave me the blankest look 😂

can confirm. it does, indeed, suck to be alive. but Mildred makes it suck less.

Every video you put out is amazing, I could straight up listen to you just chat for an hour about your day and I'd still be entertained. I know you've had struggles recently putting out content like you used to but I just wanted to say I'm fine if you just pop out a video every year or so, you'll still be my favorite creator on this site!

The subtle bit of Move Your Dead Bones in the background as you talk about the next episode... I'm so excited.

The thoughts, the writing, the delivery, the reanimated bride who deserves all the hugs and blankets in the world-- 10/10

I'm a little mad you covered the needles up, I get SOME people don't like seeing it but dang, you're covering the glowing green reanimating agent! its the best effect in all the movies...aside from the gore

How come you're always so funny. HOW COME EVERY VIDEO IS SO DELIGHTFUL HUH?!?

I don't know if it's the lighting, the hair, the glasses, or obviously all three, but you Mildred look like you jumped out of this movie in this video. And it's awesome.

I frequently put on yt videos to listen to while I work. And my hands get covered in oil and coolant and whatnot, so I can't really pause or go back to a party I wanted to see/hear again, and I might wind up tuning them out to focus. But for what is worth, I always wait until I have the free time and hands to actually watch Scaredy Cats

I for one am glad to know that Bobby, aside from being star of the channel has fulfilling existence where he is helpful to the community and, clearly, a rich internal life.

Holy crap you look cool as hell in those glasses Mil-Dread! I think I might get something like those when I get new glasses you trendsetter.

this is such fascinating lore. mildred is the bride of thought slime. now we know!

Bride is a hotchpotch of ideas taken from other movies and stuff lifted from the original story. The whole "war" thing was the first world war in the original (Chapter V I think), but with Reanimator the movie being set in the approximate present, they needed another war.

Really like the lighting in this one. It's severe and makes it look more like Midred is in an abandonned room leaning into the illumination of one bare light bulb (an aesthetic echoed with the background, which, *chef's kiss*). Midred's face does get a little blown out at points, though, so maybe turn down the f-stop on the camera a step or two and use a bounce card to fill in the underside of the face so it doesn't get lost in shadows from the decreased f-stop (while still maintaining the difference between light and shadow). That may also allow a higher light angle which could prevent them from reflecting in the glasses as much. Regardless, their hair also looks great in this lighting. May need to take a screenshot to my barber to say, "This, this is what I've been asking for."

West reanimates corpses the way Jason from the good place uses molotov cocktails

Mildo, this is legit one of your funniest videos. I was laughing so hard i was crying! Worth the wait!

On the one hand, I feel like the discussion of the movie whose DVD brought us the Reanimate Your Feet music video will have to be even better than this. On the other hand, "I don't care if puppets get hurt; I just care if they get wet," sets an impossibly high standard.

This whole channel could just transition to Screaming Mad George movies and it would be a perfect fit. Thanks for us Stabiphobic folks!

Funny you mention being 7 years old for if this movie scares you. Cuz that's when I saw it, and yeah, the Bride crumbling apart at the end genuinely scared the piss out of me, and still kinda gets to me. But yeah, great review of a great piece of Yuzna schlock.❤

Francesca looked familiar to me, but I had to go to IMDB to realize that it was Austin Powers that I was remembering her from!

Well that explains why both David Gale and Jeffery Combs show up in Screaming Mad George's Guyver movie and Comb's character is named "Dr East"

I read the opening salvo with the same relish I get reading the bottom text for an Adam Page entrance...

There were deleted scenes in Reanimator that showed Herbert West surviving, also, apparently, he was using his reagent on himself to stay awake. Meaning his reagent does deter death, but only in the living. Alas, _Re-Generator_ is not the name of the series.

I love all of your videos but something about your tone was extra hilarious in this one. Particularly when you do the voice of Dr. West casually stealing dogs or putting the conversation on hold to make eyeball monsters 🤣

The absolute ROLLER COASTER of the Bobby Dook of it all.

I read it. I read all the visuals. I pause a video and rewind it to read the visuals I couldn't focus on reading while listening. I find the little jokes that flash on the screen for a few frames, frameskip back, and read those too. ...but yeah, often I like to just lie in bed and listen...

This comment section has me rolling. 😂. Thank you Mildred for getting all these minds together.

Picked up a 'Da Star of Da Channel' Shirt and the Kitty logo one. Excited for my shirts to get here and desperately await a 'Summer of Sphere Heads' and/or 'Best Feminist Herbert West' future shirt. Keep up the good work Bobby and Mildew.

2:46 there is actually a deleted scene that was supposed ton be at the end of the first film! it doesn't explain how Herbert survived but he just did (he shows up while Dan has Meg's dead body in his arms and Herbert just comes in and says "He didn't kill me, he didn't have the guts" 😂 not exactly explained but it's canon to me!)

Im so glad im not the only person who noticed Hill being a paranormal force

2:12 it actually is explained how West managed to survive being strangled to death in two of the deleted scenes! There was a scene about Herbert injecting the watered-down version of the reagent into himself in order to prevent being hungry/tired, which presumably revives him at the end of the first movie. The *other* deleted scene on the other hand has West saying something along the lines of: "No, Hill didnt kill me; he didnt have the guts." which hints that Hill's heart/body stopped working mid strangulation, possibly due to the mysterious(?) gas that almost had everyone passing out or just from too much reagent. (sorry for so much detail, I'm a reanimator nerd)

All of those zombies from the graveyard; that is such a great set of puppets both wet and dry

Dan being in an abusive marriage with Herbert is basically the only thing directly taken from the original story other than some names. The unnamed narrator (basically dan's role) lives and works with Herbert for like 10+ years despite a truly immense amount of weird bullshit going on in his life thanks to it, including Herbert murdering a guy just to reanimate him, going to WWI together just to get bodies, etc. Though other than the necromancy I guess they're not that much worse for each other than a lot of straight couples so who can say.

Screaming Mad George is the best.

25:09 Can I just say, that is a very nice piece of stop-motion? They even got some motion blur in there, Phil Tippet-style.

More doctors should use that diagram to highlight the parts of your body that are fine or fucked. It would help SO much in the understanding. Thank you for a brilliant video. Haven't laughed that much in a long while. Also, kudos for the contextually appropriate sausage.

Absolutely cackling throughout the whole thing - another fantastic vid Mildred!

I don't know if I regret being such an easy Bobby Dook mark. But I absolutely am that. I love Mildred's research and opinions on movies. I'd seen a bit about this movie, but while people did talk about Herbert and Dan's messed up Possessive/Stooge love affair, there really wasn't enough discussion about pitying the bride. I liked that. I liked hearing that. (And watching that. I do listen to a lot of Scaredy Cats videos, but only after watching them at least once first.)

I was drinking when milllie said the bit about "dude Megan's dead" and then "ohhh yeah you're right damn I forgot" etc and just... sprayed my drink.. all over the room.. Be you forever please spooky Mildred, just gold.

That thumbnail terrified me I thought it was that ukelele-pedo again for a sec

Dan was never for a moment in any of the movies a good guy. He's just a spineless sidekick to Herbert who only occupies the focal position of a protagonist.

I just happened upon your channel and started watching your videos. You have incredible comedic timing and great summaries. Keep it coming!

Hey I dunno if it was intentional or not but I actually really like your lighting in this! The visible highlight and shadow is way more interesting and dynamic than flat studio lighting imo, but it also works *so* well with your shadowy backdrop, as well as with the dramatic lighting in the film clips! 🙂

Great video! I like the longer format (but the shorter videos are great also so don't feel like this is a request to change if you're not intending to :) ).

Maybe the story makes sense if viewed as a hallucination experienced by Dan in Arkham Asylum for the Cinematically Insane? The visuals are part of the entire wonderful package that is Scardey Cat's. Thank you, Mildred, for all the work you put into these videos. "All Cops Are Jason" 👍

25:10 That's one of my favorite little creature designs. Like it's cute and vomit-inducing all at once. Aww.

Yeh West is likely unkillable unless dismembered. There's a bonus scene in the first film where he regularly shoots up with a diluted version of the serum.

I love your visuals and even rewind and pause the video to read all of them!

I was so pleasantly surprised by the lenght of the video and the slightly different tone of it all, thank you for your work, it's a really cool one i loved it !! Can't wait to see more !!

Holy shit, the dude whipping the dog doll(?) around like that got me bad. I totally get it, it's just so goofy.

ohmygod this is one of your best videos of all time and I've been watching your KZfaq channels for like 4 years i think. This one is so tight, your points about the film are so tight, the humor is off the charts, I am just laughing and laughing and laughing. I have to keep rewinding the video to catch stuff. Fuckin nice, Mildred❤ nice

They did film a scene explaining how West survived the first movie but left it on the cutting room floor cause they didn't find it necessary for the plot.

Can't wait for Beyond Re-Animator! Move your bones, bones, bones!

Mildred’s home! Glad you can put out videos again!

Describing them as "Dr. McSteamy and Dr. McScreamy" is just... The Best

I gotta say, the grad student up too late studying to be sane look is perfect for this video. The direct naked bulb overhead lighting is a great touch.

You known that saying “When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”? All West has is his sausage, so Re-Animating is his solution to everything

6:01 - As the guy who logs these videos onto the unofficial Letterboxd, I'm gonna make the the call and say this is a wet puppet video.

it honestly never occurred to me that there could be bobby duke haters. I love Bobby Duke so much, he loves rent free in my mind

move your dead bones reactivates my sleeper agent... you could say it reanima.... no i shant say

west injects his own elixir into his veins so maybe he is incapable of death