Herbert West has a very good head on his shoulders… and another one in a dish on his desk! Stuart Gordon’s groundbreaking splatter comedy perfectly balances Grand Guignol horrors and grotesque guffaws in a (very) loose H.P. Lovecraft adaptation. Genius teeters into madness when a strange new student’s even stranger experiments push the boundaries between life and death at Miskatonic University, threatening to deliriously derail the academic life of his strait-laced housemate. Featuring pitch-perfect performances from Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, and David Gale, Re-Animator remains one of the most outrageously entertaining horror films ever to stain the screen red. Original unrated theatrical version featuring all the gore!
“One of the greatest horror movies ever made” – Entertainment Weekly
“Ingenious… it has as much originality as it has gore, and that’s really saying something!” – The New York 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.” – Roger Ebert
