Re-Animator (1985)
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Reviews Counted: 36 Fresh: 33 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Runtime: 86 mins
Synopsis:
Herbert West (Jeffery Combs) has found the secret to eternal life--or so he thinks. West needs fresh cadavers to continue his experiments in the re-animation of dead tissue, so he enlists the help of young medical student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) to steal bodies from the local morgue. Despite... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, Robert Sampson
Director: Stuart Gordon
Screenwriter: Dennis Paoli, William J. Norris, Stuart Gordon
Producer: Brian Yuzna
Screenwriter: Dennis Paoli, William J. Norris, Stuart Gordon
Producer: Brian Yuzna
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Reviews
This is one of the greatest films ever made. Period. It's outrageous, erotic, gory, jaw-dropping, genre-busting ,shocking, and altogether exhilarating filmmaking.
05/05/08 05:48 PM
In its best moments, the film itself practically leaps off the screen.
10/22/07 12:08 PM
Stuart Gordon doesn't just push the envelope of good taste with this one; he tears right through it.
07/10/07 10:03 PM
While Re-Animator fails as a faithful adaptation of Lovecraft, it is an incredibly demented movie in its own right that combines a plethora of downright disgusting grand guignol with disturbing black humor.
06/05/07 11:11 PM
It's this kind of flat-footed stuff that gives garbage a bad name.
06/05/07 11:08 PM
Top Critic Pic has a grisly sense of humor, and sometimes is so gross and over the top the film tips over into a bizarre comedy.
06/05/07 11:06 PM
Top Critic The plot... took a genre obsessed with masked killers, monsters et al, completely by storm.
04/18/07 03:15 AM
The injection of humour into HP Lovecraft's 1922 tale is what saves this splatterfest from being mere fodder for gorehounds.
06/24/06 03:39 AM
Re-Animator exploits our fears of segmentation, of being many fragments of a body living independently.
11/01/05 03:15 AM
A clever, madcap mid-80s cult classic combining sinister comedy with bloody horror.
05/17/04 08:16 AM
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