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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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May 6, 2019
There are few films as genuinely entertaining as Stuart Gordon's lose adaptation of H.P Lovecraft's famous serial. Thankfully, Gordon makes the story his own and the film ultimately becomes more of a tribute to the tale rather than a adaptation. Re-Animator is campy, and it revels in it.
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Sep 6, 2020
Yeah, I don’t trust smart people cuz they go and do **** like what they do in this movie
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Jan 8, 2020
It's a cult classic horror movie for a reason and I respect that but I far from love it. The effects and make-up were absolutely fantastic and made the film worth watching but everything else was kind of instantly forgettable.
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