Re-Animator has the feel of a film-school project with a budget. It was after all, director Stuart Gordon's debut. And what a debut! Loosely based on the (insanely weird) short story by HP Lovecraft, Gordon injects some good campy horror and tongue-in-cheek dialogue to make it THE example of schlock horror from the 80's.
Story concerns Mr Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) a promising young med student kicked out of a European med school for reasons made abundantly clear from the first scene of the film. He travels to "Miskatonic Medical University" in the States, and this is where the fun begins. He rents a room in a house owned by Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), and no sooner has he moved in, the cat goes missing and strange "bumps in the night" begin...hehehehe Also no sooner has he taken up studies at Miskatonic, he butts heads with Dr Carl Hill (David Gale - his head is in the dish on the DVD cover hehe), over Hill's "antiquated" methods of brain surgery and beliefs in the whole "life after death" thing.
West has a little trick up his sleeve, a fluro green liquid he's developed that can bring people back from the dead! Only where is death? Where have these people been? Coz they are not entirely normal, nor friendly, when they return...in fact they all seem rather crazy and p*ssed off!
This film is a gore-hounds dream...we got bone saws, a demented zombie cat, and a talking decapitated head! C'mon, do I REALLY need to go on!? You wanna see it.
It was worth watching this again one afternoon with a couple of friends from the "Saw, Part 27" school of horror just to watch their jaws hit the floor and pretty much stay there for about 80 minutes.
One of the funniest scenes by far is early on, when West is inspecting the rental house.He is oddly fascinated by the basement, remarking, "yes, this will do nicely!" Seriously, if a potential tenant said that to me, even with a wad of cash in the equation...i'd be showing him the front door! Another scene that makes me bust a gut is the severed head splatting against the wall...it's just so bizarre you laugh because not laughing at this film is a definite sign it may be "shrink time!" Also the guard outside the morgue is a laugh..."Break time!"
Special mention should really go to Barbara Crampton as the Dean's daughter, Megan, in love with Dan but lusted after by Dr Hill, she's really good in this, she's gorgeous, and kudos to her for accepting a part that involved a love scene with a decapitated head. It's one of schlock horror's more memorable "romances" hehehe. Enjoy.
Story concerns Mr Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) a promising young med student kicked out of a European med school for reasons made abundantly clear from the first scene of the film. He travels to "Miskatonic Medical University" in the States, and this is where the fun begins. He rents a room in a house owned by Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), and no sooner has he moved in, the cat goes missing and strange "bumps in the night" begin...hehehehe Also no sooner has he taken up studies at Miskatonic, he butts heads with Dr Carl Hill (David Gale - his head is in the dish on the DVD cover hehe), over Hill's "antiquated" methods of brain surgery and beliefs in the whole "life after death" thing.
West has a little trick up his sleeve, a fluro green liquid he's developed that can bring people back from the dead! Only where is death? Where have these people been? Coz they are not entirely normal, nor friendly, when they return...in fact they all seem rather crazy and p*ssed off!
This film is a gore-hounds dream...we got bone saws, a demented zombie cat, and a talking decapitated head! C'mon, do I REALLY need to go on!? You wanna see it.
It was worth watching this again one afternoon with a couple of friends from the "Saw, Part 27" school of horror just to watch their jaws hit the floor and pretty much stay there for about 80 minutes.
One of the funniest scenes by far is early on, when West is inspecting the rental house.He is oddly fascinated by the basement, remarking, "yes, this will do nicely!" Seriously, if a potential tenant said that to me, even with a wad of cash in the equation...i'd be showing him the front door! Another scene that makes me bust a gut is the severed head splatting against the wall...it's just so bizarre you laugh because not laughing at this film is a definite sign it may be "shrink time!" Also the guard outside the morgue is a laugh..."Break time!"
Special mention should really go to Barbara Crampton as the Dean's daughter, Megan, in love with Dan but lusted after by Dr Hill, she's really good in this, she's gorgeous, and kudos to her for accepting a part that involved a love scene with a decapitated head. It's one of schlock horror's more memorable "romances" hehehe. Enjoy.