A clever, madcap mid-80s cult classic combining sinister comedy with bloody horror.
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05/17/04
Re-Animator (1985)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:35
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: Perfectly compositing humor and horror, the only thing more effective than Re-Animator's gory scares are its dry, deadpan jokes.
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
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... [More]
Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale
Director: Stuart Gordon
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Reviews for Re-Animator
The injection of humour into HP Lovecraft's 1922 tale is what saves this splatterfest from being mere fodder for gorehounds.
06/24/06
What really makes Re-Animator work is that it never takes itself very seriously.
02/13/01
The plot... took a genre obsessed with masked killers, monsters et al, completely by storm.
04/18/07
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.
01/01/00
Top CriticA deliciously gross horror movie for horror movie fans, director Stuart Gordon's tour de force adapts a series of H.P. Lovecraft stories into a creepy, disquieting comedy.
01/01/00
Re-Animator exploits our fears of segmentation, of being many fragments of a body living independently.
11/01/05
Stuart Gordon doesn't just push the envelope of good taste with this one; he tears right through it.
07/10/07
It's so politically incorrect that there is no way anyone would be able to make it today.
06/19/08
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
In its best moments, the film itself practically leaps off the screen.
10/22/07
It's this kind of flat-footed stuff that gives garbage a bad name.
06/05/07
Top CriticA giddy, gory horror-comedy filled with audaciously grotesque special effects and witty black humor.
08/01/01
Re-Animator was Stuart Gordon's first (and best) movie.
04/13/07
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.
05/20/03
Top CriticIt still gets copied today (and who can blame them?).
04/20/02
A comically ghastly B-movie delight.
03/20/07
Junk food at its best. There is no other reason to watch it than to revel in its excesses, and the more excessive it gets, the more fun it is.
05/10/02
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
Top CriticA classic horror-comedy.
01/29/08
Latest News for Re-Animator
March 17, 2009:
Re-Animator Producers Talk Remake 
According to producers Brian Yuzna and Ray Haboush, their "Re-Animator" remake is cruising through development, with Ezra Godden and Elisha Cuthbert attached as the leads. More...
March 02, 2009:
Producers Plan 3-D Re-Animator Remake
Add another picture to the remake pile: Shock Till You Drop has gotten word that a "Re-Animator" remake is in the works -- and that it could be in 3-D. More...
May 17, 2006:
William H. Macy Elects to Visit "House of Re-Animator"
The creators of the original "Re-Animator" are getting back together to do a 4th chapter. This one will be called "House of Re-Animator," and it will star... More...
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