20 Horror Sequels That Took FOREVER To Get Made
13. Beyond Re-Animator
Re-Animator is one of the most distinctive cult classic horror films of the 1980s, enough that a solidly received sequel, Bride of Re-Animator, landed in 1990.
Yet even with director Brian Yuzna's enthusiasm to produce a third film, it didn't end up materialising for another 13 years.
Basically, Beyond Re-Animator spent about a decade in the depths of development hell due to both Yuzna exhausting the material from's H. P. Lovecraft original short story and struggling to find funding.
It was only when Spanish company Filmax approached Yuzna in the early 2000s with an offer to make the threequel that it became a practical reality.
Beyond Re-Animator was finally released in 2003 to relatively mixed reviews, but proved successful enough that Yuzna planned to produce an entire Re-Animator sequel trilogy.
The first of these films, House of Re-Animator, would've revolved around Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) being brought in to revive the President of the United States, who would've been played by William H. Macy.
Between funding issues and the political climate at the time, though, it never came to pass.
With franchise creator Stuart Gordon passing away in 2020 and Yuzna now being in his late-seventies, it seems overwhelmingly unlikely we get any more Re-Animator movies - short of a full-on reboot, of course.