Re-Animator (1985)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 2
Perfectly mixing humor and horror, the only thing more effective than Re-Animator's gory scares are its dry, deadpan jokes.
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1
Perfectly mixing humor and horror, the only thing more effective than Re-Animator's gory scares are its dry, deadpan jokes.
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Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a brilliant medical student who has perfected a green-glowing serum for regenerating life into dead things -- or even parts of dead things. But a corrupt superior, Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale), assumes control of West's experiments and winds up, by ghastly necessity, using the stuff on his own severed head and body. West and in-over-his-head co-worker Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) struggle to control the now out-of-control effects of the serum, but the bone-saws and
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Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
H.P. Lovecraft, Dennis Paoli, William J. Norris, Stuart Gordon
Oct 18, 1985 Limited
Dec 10, 1997
Empire Pictures
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Cast
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Jeffrey Combs
Herbert West -
Bruce Abbott
Dan Cain -
Barbara Crampton
Megan Halsey -
Robert Sampson
Dean Halsey -
David Gale
Dr. Carl Hill -
Gerry Black
Mace -
Al Berry
Dr. Gruber -
James Earl Cathay
Psycho Ward Guard #2 -
Velvet de bois
Slit Wrist Girl Corpse -
James Ellis
Psycho Ward Guard No. 1 -
Robert Holcomb
Motorcycle Accident Cor... -
Annyce Holzman
E-R Patient Corpse -
Peter Kent
Melvin the Re-Animated -
Lawrence Lowe
Failed Operation Corpse -
Derek Pendleton
Swiss Policeman #1 -
Carolyn Purdy-Gordon
Dr. Harrod -
Gene Scherer
Swiss Policeman No. 2 -
Bunny Summers
Swiss Woman Doctor -
Ian Patrick Williams
Swiss Professor -
Steve Frakes
Hospital Extra -
Michael Muscal
Hospital Extra -
Barbara Peters
Nurse -
Lillian Avery
Hospital Extra -
Ed Brummett
Hospital Extra -
Bruce Cohn Curtis
Hospital Extra -
Kim Deitch
Hospital Extra -
Jack Draheim
Tall Skinny Guy Corpse -
Mike Filloon
Bullet Wound to the Fac... -
Bob Johnnene
Hospital Extra -
Stephen Keinzle
Hospital Extra -
Grace Keller
Hospital Extra -
Peter Marti
Hospital Extra -
Robert Pitzele
Bald O-R Corpse -
Tom Reeves
Hospital Extra -
Greg Reid
One Arm Guy Corpse -
Greg Robbins
Hospital Extra -
Robert Veilleuz
Hospital Extra -
Jerry Thomas
Hospital Extra -
Tim White
Hospital Extra
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All Critics (42) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (2) | DVD (35)
It's this kind of flat-footed stuff that gives garbage a bad name.
Top CriticPic has a grisly sense of humor, and sometimes is so gross and over the top the film tips over into a bizarre comedy.
The injection of humour into HP Lovecraft's 1922 tale is what saves this splatterfest from being mere fodder for gorehounds.
All of this, ingenious as it may be and much as it will redound to Mr. Gordon's credit in hard-core horror circles, is absolutely to be avoided by anyone not in the mood for a major bloodbath.
We have been assaulted by a lurid imagination, amazed by unspeakable sights, blind-sided by the movie's curiously dry sense of humor. I guess that's our money's worth.
I definitely see its appeal and influence. It's tasteless, shameless, and nasty. And I mean that in the most positive way.
A gross-out slapsticker to rival The Evil Dead.
It's no match for The Evil Dead, but as far as tongue-in-bloody-cheek gorefests go, this update of the H.P. Lovecraft tale is a lot of fun, and it easily earns its cult status.
Blu-ray is excellent - it's presented in a brand-new 1080p HD transfer approved by producer Brian Yuzna.
Years before Shaun of the Dead, Re-Animator defined the zombie romantic comedy, or zom rom-com.
Thumpingly good gore-fest.
Overall, Re-Animator (Anchor Bay Collection) is worth buying only for true die-hard fans, or as a blind-buy for any person who loves Raimi's Evil Dead series but hasn't seen this similarly superlative horror-comedy.
It's so politically incorrect that there is no way anyone would be able to make it today.
It's sweet when a classic lives up to its legend, isn't it?
This is one of the greatest films ever made. Period. It's outrageous, erotic, gory, jaw-dropping, genre-busting ,shocking, and altogether exhilarating filmmaking.
A classic horror-comedy.
In its best moments, the film itself practically leaps off the screen.
... this is about as thorough a treatment as you could hope for on this movie ...
Stuart Gordon doesn't just push the envelope of good taste with this one; he tears right through it.
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.
The plot... took a genre obsessed with masked killers, monsters et al, completely by storm.
Packed with bonus features, Re-Animator is lovingly brought back to life by Anchor Bay.
Audience Reviews for Re-Animator
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- Dan Cain: [visiting the morgue] What if we get caught?
- Herbert West: What'll they do? Embalm us?
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- Dan Cain: This is a dream. It's fiction.
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- Herbert West: Cat dead. Details later.
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- Herbert West: I must say, Dr. Hill, I'm very disappointed in you. You steal the secret of life and death and here you are, trysting with a bubble-headed co-ed. You're not even a second-rate scientist.
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- Herbert West: You'll never get credit for my discovery. Who's going to believe a talking head? Get a job in a sideshow.
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- Herbert West: Dammit! It wasn't quite fresh enough!
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