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Re-Animator

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Jeffrey Combs

Bruce Abbott

Barbara Crampton

David Gale

Robert Sampson

Carolyn Purdy-Gordon

Peter Kent

Ian Patrick Williams

Bunny Summers

Al Berry

Barbara Pieters

Annyce Holzman

Velvet Debois

Robert Holcomb

Mike Filloon

James Earl Cathay

James Ellis

Derek Pendleton

Gene Scherer

Gerry Black

Craig Reed

Stuart Gordon

Brian Yuzna

Richard Band

Lee Percy

Mac Ahlberg

H.P. Lovecraft

Dan Bradley

John Carl Buechler

Bret Culpepper

Everett Burrell

Anthony Doublin

John Naulin

Michael Avery

Bruce William Curtis

Bob Greenberg

Charles Donald Storey

Anthony Barnao

Robert A. Burns

Robin Burton

Robin Lewis West

Dennis Stuart Murphy

Stanley B. Gill

John Kwiatkowski

Dennis Paoli

William Norris

Melinda Sue Gordon

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I don't feel as strongly about _Re-Animator_ as much of the horror community does. I absolutely enjoy it, recommend it, even. Just in more of a Watch-Enjoy-Done sort of way.

Very different from your typical Lovecraft fare.

_Final rating:★★★ - I personally recommend you give it a go._

In 1985 I was 15, and already a big horror movie fan. With Evil Dead, Halloween, Friday 13th, Italian horror ... the genre was dynamic. Then, reading Mad Movies, I see this very gore movie inspired by a short Lovecraft tale, coming soon.

I go there at 2pm, watch the movie and end up seeing it 7 times in 3 days.
The cast gives an insane (!!!) performance, especially Jeffrey Combs of course, but having Bruce Abbott try to keep his sanity and stay alive in the horrific events. Barbara Crampton will be mainly remembered by being licked by a severed head, but she does a nice "normal" character. The couple try to save what they can (sanity and life) and are quite a counterpoint to West and his madness of overcoming death, whatever consequences there may be.

Most scenes are in the Arkham faculty, some at Dan's apartment. This also enhances the madness of it all, with a regular setting where usually nothing wrong could happen.

The "gore" SFX still are vivid in my mind. So OK more modern SFX are done now, but those rubber body parts with liters of blood were really efficient, and I'll add "physical". Those computer generated very often lack the practical physicality of holding a severed hand or head they do now (must be a challenge for the actors to interact with nothing beside a green sceen.

Overall these elements create  a powerfully entertaining movie.

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Carolyn Purdy-Gordon

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