1985 Directed by Stuart Gordon
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
ReAnimator - UR, Реаниматорът, A Hora dos Mortos-Vivos, 幽灵人种, Der Re-Animator, Ζωντανός-νεκρός, 活跳屍, Reanimátor, Shiryo no shitatari, Resurrección satánica, El resucitador, O Soro Maléfico, Reanimator, Реаниматор
I was asked by a few users on my Favorite Horror Comedies list why I had included Bride of Re-Animator but not Re-Animator and their questioning me made me question myself, even though I was pretty sure I always found the sequel to be more funny.
Interestingly enough, I shouldn't have doubted myself. I still love Re-Animator and I like it more than the sequels, and while I think it is a fun, fast-paced movie, I don't find it funny. I don't laugh while watching it, I may smile simply because I love everything about it, but it's not something I find overly hilarious.
The only word I can think of to describe Jeffrey Combs is unique. There is no…
This is a movie where I'd love to watch myself watching it because I could feel myself grinning like a goddamn idiot the entire time. It's a wonderfully campy low budget horror b-movie with some hilarious scenery-chewing performances from its entire cast (Jeffrey Combs especially) and great practical gore effects. Let's just take a look at what we have here:
- Glowing green liquid
- A soundtrack blatantly ripped from Hitchcock's Psycho
- Quotes like "You killed him!" "No, I gave him life!"
- The most traumatic/hilarious cat death since Boondock Saints
- The most obvious reanimated head effect ever
- Strong Freudian overtones
- Glowing green liquid
It's a very silly movie. If you like b-horror I really can't recommend it highly enough.
I’ll never get used to hearing my name in a movie and whenever I revisit Re-Animator I’m constantly taken off guard every time someone says ‘Mr. West’
Equal parts grotesque splatter and darkly humorous, Re-Animator (especially the unrated cut) is superbly paced and expertly crafted by Stuart Gordon, who wastes no time onslaughting us with gallons of blood, reanimated corpses running amuck, glowing green reagent, shovel decapitations, tentacle-like intestines flying out of bodies, the lecherous Dr. Hill and his soon to be blood dripping talking head, and cast that knocks it out of the park—with Barbara Cramptin and Bruce Abbott perfectly relating fear and vulnerability, and Jeffery Combs sealing his fate as an actor who notoriously goes full throttle into a performance…
My one and only complaint is that I hadn't seen this sooner! But I guess it's better late than never! I cut my teeth on the old Black and White Frankenstein classics, if Director Stuart Gordon's flick had been available to me back in the day it would have blew my ever lovin mind!
There's enough cheese in it to feed a 3rd world country! You know it's going to be a winner when you learn in advance that it required 24 gallons of fake blood!
Jeffrey Combs nails it causing an influx of celebatory touchdown dances in his honor!
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can we take a moment to appreciate how good the tagline for this film is:
HERBERT WEST HAS A GOOD HEAD ON HIS SHOULDERS… AND ANOTHER ON HIS DESK.
Really fun! This movie has some great practical effects, and at just under 90 minutes, it's quite a breeze. Just gory, sometimes comical, scares and thrills. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite go past that point. In other words, it's really just a monster flick. A very cool monster flick, but just a monster flick.
“Er ist tot!” - “Of course he’s dead, the dosage was too large!” - “You killed him!” - “I DID NOT. I gave him life!”
"Re-Animator" entra en la misma categoría que "Posesión Infernal", "La matanza de Texas" o "Pesadilla en Elm Street", el del clásico moderno que demuestra incluso a los críticos más sesudos que el horror puede aportar grandes títulos. Ese típico film oscuro y desconocido que sale de la nada y sorprende por doquier, dejando una huella indeleble en la historia del séptimo arte, versión pringosa. De esas hay pocas, pero cuando aparecen, todo se pone patas para arriba.
Adaptación muy sui géneris de los relatos de H.P.Lovecraft dedicados a narrar las desventuras de su científico loco particular, Herbert West, en la que éste se lía a reanimar toda clase de seres vivos engatusando para ello al médico más prometedor del hospital…
"Cat dead. details later..."
The absolute pinnacle of the mad scientist movie. It's camp, it's funny, and the performances of Barbara Crampton and Jeffrey Combs are nothing short of fantastic.
I do suggest you watch the extended cut though, unless you don't like the sound of a whole ridiculous mind control sub plot thats as hilarious as it is uncomfortable. Plus it actually puts a lot of the scenes into context, which is nice.
Well, I had a fun time! This is something that should be counted, cause this kind of movie could've been boring or taken too seriously, which is a deadly mistake... right 'The Human Centipede'? 'Re-Animator' has a Sam Raimi vibe by being a mixture of comedy and horror, and has a 1980's liberty that we don't see anymore for obvious reasons.
I don't know H.P. Lovecraft's books, so I thought it was inspired by Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary', but I'm pretty sure the dead black cat was "stolen" from King's book. Either way, I just love the concept of power that comes from controlling life and death. Actually, Dr. West and Dr. Hill obsessed characters become plausible with this premise.…
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