Re-Animator (2 Disc Set + Highlighter)
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Jeffrey Combs Director: Stuart Gordon Brand: STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; German (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Limited Edition, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 86 minutes DVD Release Date: 2007-03-20 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay |
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Movie Reviews of Re-Animator (2 Disc Set + Highlighter)
Movie Review: A poor horrorfilm that misuses Lovecraft's name far beyond acceptable limits
Summary: 2 Stars
I had actually never seen "Re-animator", strangely enough, seeing that I've been an avid reader of HPL's tales since far back into my youth. I don't know why really, but it had always given me a bad feeling when I heard people talk about what a great "splatter" it was. Granted, "Braindead" is a funny movie in many respects, but then again, that doesn't say "H. P. Lovecraft's" on the cover. Two friends came over and we started the movie, I quickly realized though, that this has as much to do with HPL as the semitically correct film version of "The Lord of the Rings" have to do with Tolkien's wonderful world.
The film portrays Herbert West, medical student and obsessed with research on re-animation, that being the idea that you can bring someone back from the dead through science and chemistry. He convinces a fellow student to join him in his research, ever pushing the boundaries of the law in their quest for the perfect dead body to revive, but never finding one that's "quite fresh enough". When they involve two of the professors at their university, including the daughter of one of them, she being the fiancé of the helper, everything goes to hell. Being a horror-film, you can imagine what goes wrong, from West's point of view. This is also a so-called "horror-comedy", something that I could hardly loathe more, so I might not be the right person to judge this movie, but I'll give it a go, since I spent an hour and a half watching it.
There's really very little in the film that has anything with HPL to do at all, so I'm quite certain that if Lovecraft had any kind of "estate", the way other famous deceased authors often had, this film would never have been made out to be based on his amusing and above average horror tale. It contains excessive and meaningless nudity and erotic scenes that add nothing to the tale, apart from making it even more meaningless. The only reason I'm not giving it 1 star, is because it DOES have a FEW amusing lines and also the face of one of the legion of bodies that eventually starts to roam the film is quite hilarious, you'll know it when you see it. The bonus-material was to me only minor, and I almost wish I had gotten the censored version, something you'll understand a little while into the movie.
All in all, a poor "horror film" that isn't scary at all, and is generally a waste of time, in addition to being an insult to the intelligence of our great radically conservative American-English author, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, may he rest in peace.