Synopsis
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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Cast
- Jeffrey CombsHerbert West
- Bruce AbbottDan Cain
- Barbara CramptonMegan Halsey
- David GaleDr. Carl Hill
- Robert SampsonDean Alan Halsey
- Carolyn Purdy-GordonDr. Harrod
- Peter KentMelvin the Re-Animated (uncredited)
- Ian Patrick WilliamsSwiss Professor (uncredited)
- Bunny SummersSwiss Woman Doctor (uncredited)
- Al BerryDr. Gruber (uncredited)
Recommendations
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The Dissolve
A deft, funny, fearless, and gloriously tasteless mix of horror and comedy, Re-Animator proves that entertainment value trumps virtually every other concern. - 90
IGN
The script is very clever, funny and tightly written, and manages to avoid almost every horror movie cliche. - 88
Slant Magazine
It is almost as though these filmmakers are afraid they’ll never get the chance to make another one, and Re-Animator doesn’t hesitate in being an almost operatic, larger than life comedy of splatter. While it paints with a big (red) brush, it is never boring. - 80
Empire
Re-Animator remains a splashy hark back to the glorious 80s love affair with all-things bloody — to the point that Gordon was convinced he'd used more fake blood than anyone else in the history of horror. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
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). - 63
Chicago Tribune
And yet if Re-Animator offers only a few laughs, that still puts it smiles ahead of George Romero`s awful ''Return of the Dead,'' the third in his zombie series, which suffered from tired blood. At least director Gordon`s ghoulies drool on naked women and decapitate each other with shovels. Hoe, hoe, hoe. - 60
Time Out
The injection of humour into HP Lovecraft's 1922 tale is what saves this splatterfest from being mere fodder for gorehounds.
