Re-Animator
REVITALISES THE BITS THAT OTHER HORROR FILMS CANNOT REACH
Film Length : 90 minutes approx
Film Certificate : 18 (UK)
Produced by Brian Yuzna
A 20th century Fox presentation
Story
The night that medical student Dan Cain discovered his pet cat, Rufus, dead in his room mate's fridge was just the beginning. Before long, Dan and his beloved girlfriend become involved in the macabre experiments of his room mate, the sinister Dr Herbert West, who has created a serum that can bring both brain and body back from the dead. The immoral scientificmethods of Dr West provide the Dean of the medical school with reason to expel West and force Cain out of the hospital. Undeterred, West and Cain continue with their experiments in the hospitals in the hospital's morgue - restoring life to an unlimited supply of fresh corpses. However, a chilling side-effect to West's discovery leads to a seemingly endless night of mind-bending terror and unthinkable madness.
Details
Re-Animator was the bebeficiary of what is often referred to as 'beginner's luck'. Naturally, the first time you do something it get's your undivided attention, every step of the process requiring absolute focus, each decision being eritical. It is an energetic and blissfull ignorance. The movie was shot in an old studio built in the twenties that now lay sagging in a somewhat rough neighbourhood of Los Angeles, although it did have the enticing reputation of being haunted. Locations were filmed in East Hollywood neighbourhoods, where shooting lasted 16 days. It was screened at a Cannes film festival at midnight and the horror fans loved it. You really don't know how good a movie is until it's time is past, sometimes the more time that has passed, the clearer it is. You know it's good when it is still involving and the characters still delightful after all these years. Sequels are about, including Re-Animator 2 and From The Beyond, where Jeffrey reprises his classic role as the crazy Doctor.
Comments
Re-animator is an excellent example of classic 80's horror. With wit, gore and excellent acting with no need for scores of beautiful actressesto clutter it up (scream, I know what you ate last tuesday and all the other bullshit). With the musical score by Richard Band of Puppet Master fame, and John Carl Buechler doing the effects (Friday 13th part 7, Elm Street 4), the parts are all in place for an amazing movie. Jeffrey Combs (Weyoun of DS9) plays the creepy Herbert West and creats an excellent movie maniac.
8.5 / 10
Mickey Monkey'guts
*SCREAM IS UTTER SHITE