It's simply the best, funniest Grand Guignol horror picture to come along in ages.
Re-Animator
Herbert West has a good head on his shoulders...and another one on his desk.
1985 · 1h 26m · R
Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
Directed by
Stuart Gordon
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Stuart Gordon Director
- Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West
- Bruce Abbott as Dan Cain
- Barbara Crampton as Megan Halsey
- David Gale as Dr. Carl Hill
- Robert Sampson as Dean Alan Halsey
- Carolyn Purdy-Gordon as Dr. Harrod
- Peter Kent as Melvin the Re-Animated
- Ian Patrick Williams as Swiss professor
- Bunny Summers Cast
- Al Berry Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Oh, those crazy doctors, when will they ever learn to stop messing around with the natural order of life and death?
It's this kind of flat-footed stuff that gives garbage a bad name.
Pic has a grisly sense of humor, and sometimes is so gross and over the top the film tips over into a bizarre comedy.
The injection of humour into HP Lovecraft's 1922 tale is what saves this splatterfest from being mere fodder for gorehounds.
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