Re-Animator

And they were roommates.. :rainbow_flag:

Queer horror is always the best

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!

Easily the best of the Lovecraft adaptations so far. Still holds up, still such a blast. Great effects, great humor, great horror.

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".

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!

The original movie. Frankenstein meet Pet Seminary. Just a good fun horror movie that does not take itself too seriously, which is what makes the movie work. A classic!

Man, I sure do miss old school practical effects. They just don’t make them like this anymore.

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 fits of stumbling violence. OK, they’re basically zombies.

If you happen to be seeking the perfect example of ‘80s horror, this checks all the boxes. Spaghetti-chunk special effects with high hopes but a basement budget? Yes and yes. Hammy acting, flat delivery and low-rent production values? Oh yeah. Gratuitous nudity? We’ve got tits aplenty. A reckless lack of good decisions and wildly amplified repercussions? Man, you don’t even know.

_Re-Animator_ is a ride, all right. The first two acts embody most of the worst stereotypes of the genre, plodding through eye-rolling plot details and steep mounds of bad exposition, but the home stretch validates everything. That climax is completely bananas, a delicious string of one-ups and double-downs that swings for the fences and hits like a shot of adrenaline straight to the heart. It’s rare to be so shocked and delighted by a movie this out-of-date. Most of it ain’t good, but the best bits are downright incredible.

The outstanding practical effects alone make "Re-Animator" a must-see for any horror fan. Without these effects, the concept of mad scientists resurrecting corpses would fail. Of course, it's all in poor taste, but because it's clearly a comedy, you can't take it too seriously. The characters are all extremely quirky, with Jeffrey Combs as mad scientist Herbert West being the standout. At times the whole thing was far too silly for my taste, but most of the time the tonality works really well. "Re-Animator" is deservedly considered a cult film.