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.
Der Re-Animator, 幽灵人种, Reanimator, 活跳屍, Reanimátor, Shiryo no shitatari, Ζωντανός-νεκρός, O Soro Maléfico, El resucitador, A Hora dos Mortos-Vivos, Реаниматорът, Реаниматор, ZOMBIO/死霊のしたたり, 리애니메이터
bitches be like "this is my comfort character" and it's an insane scientist who murdered someone with a shovel
when herbert west starts pompously breaking pencils while maintaining intense eye contact with someone he wishes would shut up. powerful
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…
