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HorroRated pickRe-Animator
HorroRated verdict
- Directed by
- Stuart Gordon
- Written by
- H.P. Lovecraft, William Norris, Dennis Paoli, Stuart Gordon
- Produced by
- Brian Yuzna, Bruce William Curtis, Charles Donald Storey, Michael Avery, Bob Greenberg
Why it’s HorroRated
Re-Animator is Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs making something that works as dark comedy, body horror, and tense horror all at the same time. Herbert West is one of the great obsessives in genre cinema. The practical effects are extraordinary. A film that has only gotten better with age.
Synopsis
Stuart Gordon directs Lovecraft's material as dark comedy and splatter in equal measure and the combination works. Jeffrey Combs makes Herbert West one of the great obsessives in genre cinema, a man so certain about his work that consequence simply doesn't register. The practical effects are extraordinary and the film has only gotten better with age.
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Quick facts
- Release date
- October 18, 1985
- Runtime
- 1 hour 26 mins
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Content rating
- NR
- Entry type
- Movie
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