Arrow Video has announced the release of Bride of Re-Animator, which is coming to Blu-ray and DVD on in April in a stunning new 2K restoriation, featuring both the unrated and R-Rated cuts of the film. This new deluxe set comes director approved and features a wealth of bonus content.

The success of Stuart Gordon’s hit horror-comedy Re-Animator meant that a sequel was all but inevitable. The resulting follow-up, Bride of Re-Animator – this time helmed by director Brian Yuzna (Society, Return of the Living Dead III) – would prove that there was a good deal more life (and death) left in the story of Dr Herbert West and his ghoulish exploits.

It has been eight months since the bloody massacre at Miskatonic Medical School. Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr West (again played by Jeffrey Combs) continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life – starting with the heart of his young protégé Dan’s dearly deceased, Meg Halsey. Surely nothing could go wrong?

With special effects master Screaming Mad George (the man behind the infamous “shunting” sequence of Society) on hand to contribute a host of characteristically weird and wonderful creations, Bride of Re-Animator is a more than worthy successor to Stuart Gordon’s original cult classic.

Bride of Re-Animator comes to UK dual format (Blu-ray and DVD) as a Director-Approved 3-Disc Limited Edition on 11th April 2016 from Arrow Video at the RRP of £24.99.

Director-Approved 3-Disc Limited Edition contents:

• Brand new 2K restorations of the Unrated and R-Rated versions of the film, approved by director Brian Yuzna

• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations

• Original Stereo 2.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays)

• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Digipak packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin

• Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by festival programmer Michael Blyth

• Re-Animator: Dawn of the Re-Animator – the official comic book prequel to the original Re-Animator

Disc 1 [Blu-ray] and Disc 2 [DVD] - Unrated Version special features:

• Brand new 2K restoration of the Unrated version

• Brand new audio commentary with director Brian Yuzna

• Audio commentary with Brian Yuzna, star Jeffrey Combs, special effects co-ordinator Thomas Rainone and the effects team including John Buechler, Mike Deak, Robert Kurtzman, Howard Berger and Screaming Mad George

• Audio commentary with stars Jeffrey Combs and Bruce Abbott

• Brian Yuzna Remembers Bride of Re-Animator – brand new featurette in which the director looks back at the making of the first Re-Animator sequel

• Splatter Masters: The Special Effects Artists of Bride of Re-Animator – brand new FX featurette with a wealth of behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Robert Kurtzman of KNB, Screaming Mad George, Tony Doublin and John Buechler

• Getting Ahead in Horror – archive making-of featurette

• Meg is Re-Animated – deleted scene with behind-the-scenes footage

• Carnival Sequence – the cast and crew discuss this excised sequence

Disc 3 [Blu-ray] – R-Rated Version – Limited Edition Exclusive

• Brand new 2K restoration of the R-Rated version

• Behind-the-scenes reel

'Re-Animator: Dawn of Re-Animator' – Limited Edition exclusive

• Perfect-bound booklet containing Re-Animator: Dawn of the Re-Animator, the 1992 comic prequel to Stuart Gordon’s original Re-Animator, reprinted in its entirety