Hey, Wait A Second!

I was just watching Bride of Re-Animator on Monsters HD (god bless that channel), and I was looking at Dr. Hill's pristine looking severed head and I couldn't help but think back to the final scenes of the first Re-Animator. Didn't that zombie dude put a vice grip on Hill's head to the point that it completely crumbled and turned into jelly donut mush!? And didn't he then throw that pile of mush at a wall?! I had to go back and make sure I wasn't imagining things. And I most definetly was not. See for yourself!



And here's the Hill head in Bride...



Does something look wrong with that picture to you!? Now granted, this is a wild over the top horror flick and the fact that a severed head is living on it's own much less flying around with bat wings attached to it pretty much establishes that realism isn't the aim of the film, but I still can't help but feel like we as an audience were fucked with here! We clearly saw Hill head die in Re-Animator. The filmmakers of Bride needed him back for the sequel, so they just pretended it never happened! That's not fair! It'd be like having Jigsaw pop up all healthy and alive at the end of Saw 6! In a further insult to the audience, when the doc gets a look at Hill's head, he notes that theres a tiny skull fracture in it! O ya? That's it, huh?! The damn thing was squished like a tomato! I guess the point i'm trying to make is don't kill off a character if you're gonna regret it later! And if you do kill that character off, don't bring 'em back once you do regret it! Be that character a bodyless head or not! Amen!

I can't help but be reminded of Texas Chainsaw 3 and how Ken Foree clearly got chopped up with a chainsaw and then returned 10 minutes later with a small flesh wound on his cranium. I guess these are just a few of horror's many unsolved mysteries, eh Robert Stack?



I can rest easy now that I got that off my chest...