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List Price: $29.95 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Special Edition • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 18 October, 1985 DVD Release : 01 January, 2001 |
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Re-Animator description Stuart Gordon's adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West: Re-Animator puts a Night of the Living Dead spin on the classic Frankenstein story. Jeffrey Combs furrows his brow and bugs his eyes as the preternaturally intense Herbert West, a maverick medical student whose gory, gooey experiments cause bloody corpses and body parts to jerk to life. Bruce Abbot is the studious roommate drawn into his extracurricular experiments, which soon involve the dean's daughter (the frequently naked Barbara Crampton) and the college's cadaverous, calculating star professor (David Gale), who literally loses his head over a battle for West's discovery. In this world, that's only a minor setback. Charged with sick gallows humor and a ghoulish gallery of undead beasties, Re-Animator, like Evil Dead II, is one of the most inspired and inventive--and funniest--horror films of the 1980s. Combs, Abbot, and Gale reunite for the almost-as-entertaining sequel Bride of Re-Animator. --Sean Axmaker |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Re-Animator impresses! |
| Amazingly I hadn't seen this one until recently despite the fact that it appears on just about every list of essential horror films, but after a single viewing I could see why. Boasting some likable characters and a modest amount of gore, this movie really stands out from the slasher dominated 80's horror scene. That being said, I would not go as far as to call this a zombie film as many people do. Although reanimated corpses make an appearance, it is much more along the lines of a mad scientist type movie, and it has to be among the best of its kind offering a great blend of horror and dark comedy.
In short, aspiring Dr. Herbert West has discovered a formula for reanimating deceased subject matters. When he grows weary of experimenting with animals, he convinces his fellow medical student and room mate Dan to accompany him to the morgue to further pursue his research with human specimins. Herbert's formula does in fact reanimate humans, but the living corpses display erratic and violent behavior. When their instructor Dr. Hill learns of Herbert's discovery, he sets out to claim the discovery as his own as well as creating his own army of reanimated subjects, but Herbert will not allow it. The two face off in a final and gory confrontation. Jeffrey Combs is just fantastic as the eccentric Herbert West! He really manages to make you laugh despite the amount of graphic gore on screen and is quite a memorable character from the horror genre in general. Barbara Crampton is also great as the film's female interest as well as the rest of the cast with ocassionally over the top, yet sufficient performances . The score, although a tad cheesy, is a great touch as well and seems to be based on the theme from Psycho. Overall it's just a fun movie with nothing not to like if you enjoy this type of movie. I highly recommend Re-Animator, thanks for reading! |
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