Editing Beyond Re-Animator (section)

==Production==
[[Brian Yuzna]] following the release of ''[[Bride of Re-Animator]]'' had wanted to continue the franchise and upon being approached 10 years later by Spanish company [[Filmax]] in setting up their horror film production arm [[Fantastic Factory]] the opportunity presented itself for a third ''Re-Animator'' to be produced.<ref name=YuznaUntoldHorror>{{cite book |author=Alexander, Dave |title=Untold Horror |publisher=[[Dark Horse Comics]] |date=2021 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JDhAEAAAQBAJ |isbn=978-1506719023 |pages=88–90}}</ref>
As Yuzna had exhausted the source material of the original [[H. P. Lovecraft]] short story ''[[Herbert West–Reanimator]]'', he approached writer [[John Penney]], with whom he had collaborated on ''[[Return of the Living Dead 3]]'', for potential ideas for continuation.<ref name= "YuznaUntoldHorror"/> While Penney's treatment ultimately wasn't used, the concept of Herbert West now serving a prison sentence became the basis for what would become ''Beyond Re-Animator''.<ref name= "YuznaUntoldHorror"/> The initial draft of the film would've brought back [[Bruce Abbott]]'s Dan Cain who [[Turn state's evidence|turned state's evidence]] against West and is now a successful, albeit vice ridden, [[transplant surgeon]] who is using what remains of West's re-animation serum in his surgical procedures and is forced by a politically ambitious district attorney to use the re-animaion serum on a serial killer's recently deceased victim in order to catch them.<ref name= "YuznaUntoldHorror"/> Due to the amount of time that had passed between films as well as the impossibility of Spain convincingly doubling for the United States, Yuzna decided to scale back the film to be more of a confined prison movie as well as [[Jeffrey Combs]] as Herbert West returning to the role, [[Jason Barry]] was brought in to play a more youthful foil for West.<ref name= "YuznaUntoldHorror"/>