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Re-Animator

Movie
1985
1h 26m
NR
English
Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror
User Score: 
7.4
Critic Score: 
84
ReAnimator' Poster
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.
ReAnimator Poster

Re-Animator

NR
Movie
1985
1h 26m
English
Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror
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.
Rating
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7.4
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Re-Animator (1985) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
84

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Jeffrey Combs
Herbert West
Bruce Abbott
Dan Cain
Barbara Crampton
Megan Halsey
David Gale
Dr. Carl Hill
Robert Sampson
Dean Alan Halsey
Peter Kent
Melvin the Re-Animated (uncredited)
Ian Patrick Williams
Swiss Professor (uncredited)
Bunny Summers
Swiss Woman Doctor (uncredited)
Al Berry
Dr. Gruber (uncredited)
Annyce Holzman
E-R Patient Corpse
Velvet Debois
Slit Wrist Girl Corpse
Robert Holcomb
Motorcycle Accident Corpse
Mike Filloon
Bullet Wound to Face Corpse
James Earl Cathay
Psycho Ward Guard #2
James Ellis
Psycho Ward Guard #1
Derek Pendleton
Swiss Policeman #1
Gene Scherer
Swiss Policeman #2
Craig Reed
One Arm Man Corpse
Directed By: Stuart Gordon
Written By: Stuart Gordon, H.P. Lovecraft (Story), + 3 more

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Bradym03 says...
5 years ago
One of the best Lovecraft's interpretations to date. 'Re-Animator' is a classy 80's body horror that manages to balance comedy so well. There will never be anything like this again. Many will try, but those will be known "attempts".
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LarZieJ says...
6 years ago
Cat dead, details later. Re-Animator has so many great moments! The ending, decapitated head giving head, the amazing sequence with all the re-animated bodies in the morgue, the way Dr. Herbert West drives that bone-saw through the first re-animated corpse's chest! The cat, every scene were the FX team show off how good they are! Yes, the gore is amazing, almost everything looks so damn amazing and I always want to know how they did it. I think it so underrated sometimes these days because CGI but movies like Re-Animator shows us that practical effects still look damn amazing. In the end, Re-Animator is well worth the watch!
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Mr. Sackamano says...
3 years ago
Ohhhhhhhhh Barbara Crampton..sooooooooooo...hottt!!!...want..to..touch..the hiney....Arooooooooooooooooooooooooo- Roooooof!!!!
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beardedmovienut says...
2 years ago
It's been a while since I watched Re-Animator, and watching From Beyond the other day, made me want to watch Stuart Gordon's "other'" Lovecraft horror again. This time around I watched the "Integral Cut", that has all the gore from the unrated cut intact, but also the extra dialogue scenes from the R-rated cut... and I loved it. It makes for a more fleshed out story, and you understand a bit more of the characters motives behind their actions. Re-Animator is one of my all-time favourite horror comedies. There's no other film that made such an impact as this one did the first time I watched it. There are so many iconic scenes. Among them when West can't get Dr. Hills head to stand up in the tray and puts it on a spike, and who can forget the head between the Barbara Cramptons legs scene. Just brilliant!!! I wonder when we'll get a 4K restoration of this one? ...because I want it!
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AndrewBloom
CONTAINS SPOILERS6/10  4 years ago
[5.6/10] Here’s the weird thing about *Re-Animator* -- it is a narratively sound film. All of the major characters (of which there are only really five) have a clear motivation, and the film’s drama is centered around those places where those driving impulses conflict. That is the core of good s More
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HoundCat
11 months ago
If you're into the _Horror_ genre and movie adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft stories, "Re-Animator" has always been one of my very favorites. This movie provided my introduction to Jeffrey Combs as our mad doctor, Herbert West. He's not really crazy, he's just very passionate about science. In this cas More
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$hubes
CONTAINS SPOILERS1/10  3 years ago
**UPDATED 09/07/2023** Going through the aforementioned _20 Best Horror Movies Ever Made, According to Redditt_ (and let me again emphasize this is a list I pulled off of another movie site I subscribe to; the list should **NOT** be interpeted as my own personal preferences) this film stands at the More
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drqshadow
7/10  2 years ago
A small-time Massachusetts medical school is turned upside down when a creepy new student begins experimenting with a neon green anti-death serum. The toxic goo gets the job done, but its subjects (culled in secret from the basement morgue) are cranky about their interrupted dirt nap and prone to fi More
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