Jeffrey Combs

Bruce Abbott

Barbara Crampton

David Gale

Robert Sampson

Carolyn Purdy-Gordon

Peter Kent

Ian Patrick Williams

Bunny Summers

Al Berry

Barbara Pieters

Annyce Holzman

Velvet Debois

Robert Holcomb

Mike Filloon

James Earl Cathay

James Ellis

Derek Pendleton

Gene Scherer

Gerry Black

Craig Reed

H.P. Lovecraft

Richard Band

Mac Ahlberg

Lee Percy

Brian Yuzna

Stuart Gordon

Dan Bradley

Bruce William Curtis

Everett Burrell

Dennis Stuart Murphy

Bret Culpepper

Robert A. Burns

Anthony Doublin

Anthony Barnao

John Kwiatkowski

Charles Donald Storey

Robin Lewis West

John Naulin

Stanley B. Gill

John Carl Buechler

Michael Avery

Bob Greenberg

Robin Burton

William Norris

Dennis Paoli

Melinda Sue Gordon

Re-Animator Collection

Science Fiction

Comedy

Horror

Re-Animator

Empire Pictures

United States of America

English

experiment

insanity

overdose

black humor

mad scientist

decapitation

reanimation

laboratory

severed head

hospital

zombie

intestines

death

black cat

based on short story

dead cat

surgical operation

reanimated corpse

medical student

medical school

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Gimly

I don't feel as strongly about _Re-Animator_ as much of the horror community does. I absolutely enjoy it, recommend it, even. Just in more of a Watch-Enjoy-Done sort of way.

Very different from your typical Lovecraft fare.

_Final rating:★★★ - I personally recommend you give it a go._

In 1985 I was 15, and already a big horror movie fan. With Evil Dead, Halloween, Friday 13th, Italian horror ... the genre was dynamic. Then, reading Mad Movies, I see this very gore movie inspired by a short Lovecraft tale, coming soon.

I go there at 2pm, watch the movie and end up seeing it 7 times in 3 days.
The cast gives an insane (!!!) performance, especially Jeffrey Combs of course, but having Bruce Abbott try to keep his sanity and stay alive in the horrific events. Barbara Crampton will be mainly remembered by being licked by a severed head, but she does a nice "normal" character. The couple try to save what they can (sanity and life) and are quite a counterpoint to West and his madness of overcoming death, whatever consequences there may be.

Most scenes are in the Arkham faculty, some at Dan's apartment. This also enhances the madness of it all, with a regular setting where usually nothing wrong could happen.

The "gore" SFX still are vivid in my mind. So OK more modern SFX are done now, but those rubber body parts with liters of blood were really efficient, and I'll add "physical". Those computer generated very often lack the practical physicality of holding a severed hand or head they do now (must be a challenge for the actors to interact with nothing beside a green sceen.

Overall these elements create  a powerfully entertaining movie.

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Re-Animator( 1985)

Herbert West has a good head on his shoulders...and another one on his desk.

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A review by Gimly

Written by Gimly on Sat May 13 2017

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