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RE-ANIMATOR

1985 US HMDB
October 18, 1985

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

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Marco Castellini
A young and brilliant doctor, Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), manages to create a serum capable of bringing the dead back to life, even just parts of the body! The main problem is that the zombies return with a furious murderous instinct! It will be trouble for him and for all those who, against their will, will find themselves next to the mad West. This is the ultimate "cult" of the late Empire Video, a production company of Charles Band and Brian Yuzna. Very loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft's story "Herbert West—Reanimator" and directed by the great Stuart Gordon, the film is rich in overflowing special effects, excellently made: headless corpses walking around calmly, talking severed heads, guts that strangle the owner, mutilated limbs... this and much more! An excessive horror, at times deliberately comic (how not to mention the sequence in which the decapitated body of an undead gropes an attractive girl and the related head, placed on the ground, enjoys it!) that manages to entertain and amuse the viewer. The only flaw, if it can be called a "flaw," is that it doesn't succeed in being scary because it is intentionally designed not to take itself too seriously. Only for enthusiasts!
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Gimly

6 /10

I don't feel as strongly about Re-Animator as much of the horror community does. I absolutely enjoy it, recommend it, even. Just in more of a Watch-Enjoy-Done sort of way.

Very different from your typical Lovecraft fare.

Final rating:★★★ - I personally recommend you give it a go.

TheTenth

10 /10

In 1985 I was 15, and already a big horror movie fan. With Evil Dead, Halloween, Friday 13th, Italian horror ... the genre was dynamic. Then, reading Mad Movies, I see this very gore movie inspired by a short Lovecraft tale, coming soon.

I go there at 2pm, watch the movie and end up seeing it 7 times in 3 days. The cast gives an insane (!!!) performance, especially Jeffrey Combs of course, but having Bruce Abbott try to keep his sanity and stay alive in the horrific events. Barbara Crampton will be mainly remembered by being licked by a severed head, but she does a nice "normal" character. The couple try to save what they can (sanity and life) and are quite a counterpoint to West and his madness of overcoming death, whatever consequences there may be.

Most scenes are in the Arkham faculty, some at Dan's apartment. This also enhances the madness of it all, with a regular setting where usually nothing wrong could happen.

The "gore" SFX still are vivid in my mind. So OK more modern SFX are done now, but those rubber body parts with liters of blood were really efficient, and I'll add "physical". Those computer generated very often lack the practical physicality of holding a severed hand or head they do now (must be a challenge for the actors to interact with nothing beside a green sceen.

Overall these elements create a powerfully entertaining movie.

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