Re-Animator

Name: Re-Animator
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy
Released: October 18, 1985
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Barbara Crampton, Barbara Pieters, Bruce Abbott, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, David Gale

1985

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Reanimator

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Empire Pictures | Release Date: October 18, 1985

Starring: Barbara Crampton, Barbara Pieters, Bruce Abbott, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, David Gale, Gerry Black, Ian Patrick Williams, Jeffrey Combs, Peter Kent, Robert Sampson

Summary: 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.

Director: Stuart Gordon

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 105 min

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Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas

It's simply the best, funniest Grand Guignol horror picture to come along in ages. Read full review

IGN - Rich Sanchez

The script is very clever, funny and tightly written, and manages to avoid almost every horror movie cliche. Read full review

The Dissolve - Keith Phipps

A deft, funny, fearless, and gloriously tasteless mix of horror and comedy, Re-Animator proves that entertainment value trumps virtually every other concern. Read full review

The New York Times - Janet Maslin

Re-Animator has a fast pace and a good deal of grisly vitality. It even has a sense of humor, albeit one that would be lost on 99.9 percent of any ordinary moviegoing crowd...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. Read full review

Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert

One of the pleasures of the movies, however, is to find a movie that chooses a disreputable genre and then tries with all its might to transcend the genre, to go over the top into some kind of artistic vision, however weird. Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator is a pleasure like that, a frankly gory horror movie that finds a rhythm and a style that make it work in a cockeyed, offbeat sort of way. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine - Staff (Not Credited)

A major-league splatterfest, RE-ANIMATOR has a number of horrifying moments, made even more macabre by the grisly humor evident in almost every unforgettable scene (the most memorable and bizarre being the sex scene with a cadaver's detached head). Read full review

Chicago Reader - Dave Kehr

Ludicrous and inept, this low-budget 1985 splatter film directed by former Chicagoan Stuart Gordon tries to compensate for its complete failure to establish even a sliver of credibility by inflating the usual quotient of giggly camp humor and squishy gore effects...It's this kind of flat-footed stuff that gives garbage a bad name. Read full review

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DirigiblePulp

Jan 11, 2019

A work of absolutely perfect tonal control. The humor so dry, so bone deep, it doesn't need underlining. Horror so in your face, so over the top, it doesn't need "scares". One tone or the other always picks up the slack, always drives a scene, in a seamless flowing rhythm. Jeffrey Combs isA work of absolutely perfect tonal control. The humor so dry, so bone deep, it doesn't need underlining. Horror so in your face, so over the top, it doesn't need "scares". One tone or the other always picks up the slack, always drives a scene, in a seamless flowing rhythm. Jeffrey Combs is the epicenter of it all.… Expand

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