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.
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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.
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I really enjoyed this throughout, but that crazy climax really pushed it over the edge into classic territory. Awesome special effects and gore, and truly superb ham-tastic performances from Jeffrey Combs and David Gale. Easily the best use of a dismembered and animated entrails in cinema history.
In addition to the expected trivia, Jim Bob breaks out an extended reference to Aristotle's Poetics, which was crazier than anything in the movie. He also illustrated what a legend Barbara Crampton is: Re-Animator, Chopping Mall, AND You're Next?! What a record!
liked it
AMAZING title sequence and the score is nice as well
a good mix of horror and comedy
just wasnt that captivated with the characters, although the antagonist was quite intimidating in his final form hehe
my favourite character was the guard who was never on duty, and when shit hit the fan he just ran away. I would have done the same
61/100
Erschließt sich mir nicht in Gänze, worin der Horror-Klassiker-Ruf von Re-Animator begründet liegt. Ist mir definitiv zu quatschig und auch zu sehr auf der humoresken Seite unterwegs.
‘I gave him life!’
There’s no doubt that Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator (1985) has become an iconic horror film. An immensely effective black comedy that is anchored by a wonderful performance from Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West (to which Bruce Abbott is required to perform as straight man Dan Cain, who assists West in his… necromantic adventures), in hindsight Gordon’s film seems to owe as much to vaudeville comedy double acts (if Dan Cain is Bud Abbott, Herbert West is Lou Costello) as it does to the horror genre.
There’s a hint of inter-generational conflict, the young and up-and-coming West, a student of the prestigious Dr Hans Gruber in Switzerland, being set against the prideful Dr Carl Hill (a marvelously perverse…
Re-Animator is a criticism of medical procedures & technology that allow humans to remain alive despite extremely poor quality of life. Family members cling to their loved ones, even when they suffer immensely and barely resemble their former selves.
Its still a lovely gore fest filled with talking heads, puppet cats, and Jeffrey Combs going one up over Colin Clives Dr Frankenstein for insanity.
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