Re-Animator (2 Disc Set + Highlighter)
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Movie Reviews of Re-Animator (2 Disc Set + Highlighter)
Movie Review: Packaging a bit lame
Summary: 4 Stars
Anchor bay makes some fantastic DVD editions of classic horrors, for a great price. Their Necronomicon editions of the Evil Dead films, as well as their special editions of Dawn of the Dead and Suspira are worth every penny.
I was a bit disappointed to see this new edition of Re-Animator only because it's the third special edition, and it doesn't contain much that the others don't (just one featurette). The addition of the limited edition syringe hilighter is a great idea, and it looks really funky.
However, inside the box the DVDs are in a standard plastic keep case, which I happen to hate. I'd rather have the cardboard folder packaging than a plastic keepcase, which looks so cheap. At least with the cardboard CD cases, you get an all over full colour print, without the plastic covering.
Also, there are no inserts inside the package save for a single slip of cardstock with a print on one side, and the chapters on the other. If you want to keep the higlighter with the DVD, you have to keep them both in the box. It's not a flip cover DVD box either - just a regular box that crushes easily.
The movie, if you are a fan, remains fantastic. The commentary (which has appeared on three versions to date) is very good - I liked comparing the director's point of view, with the experiences of the actors. The three principles clearly had a great time working together, and they have plenty to say about the making of the film.
There has only been one special edition of Bride of Re-Animator that I'm aware of, and I missed getting a copy when it was released a few years ago. Now that the first film has been released again in a special edition package, I'm very hopeful that we'll see a better edition of Bride than the bare bones one currently available. That's really the most exciting part of this new release.
Movie Review: Re-Animator impresses!
Summary: 4 Stars
Amazingly I hadn't seen this one until recently despite the fact that it appears on just about every list of essential horror films, but after a single viewing I could see why. Boasting some likable characters and a modest amount of gore, this movie really stands out from the slasher dominated 80's horror scene. That being said, I would not go as far as to call this a zombie film as many people do. Although reanimated corpses make an appearance, it is much more along the lines of a mad scientist type movie, and it has to be among the best of its kind offering a great blend of horror and dark comedy.
In short, aspiring Dr. Herbert West has discovered a formula for reanimating deceased subject matters. When he grows weary of experimenting with animals, he convinces his fellow medical student and room mate Dan to accompany him to the morgue to further pursue his research with human specimins. Herbert's formula does in fact reanimate humans, but the living corpses display erratic and violent behavior. When their instructor Dr. Hill learns of Herbert's discovery, he sets out to claim the discovery as his own as well as creating his own army of reanimated subjects, but Herbert will not allow it. The two face off in a final and gory confrontation.
Jeffrey Combs is just fantastic as the eccentric Herbert West! He really manages to make you laugh despite the amount of graphic gore on screen and is quite a memorable character from the horror genre in general. Barbara Crampton is also great as the film's female interest as well as the rest of the cast with ocassionally over the top, yet sufficient performances . The score, although a tad cheesy, is a great touch as well and seems to be based on the theme from Psycho. Overall it's just a fun movie with nothing not to like if you enjoy this type of movie. I highly recommend Re-Animator, thanks for reading!
Movie Review: Four stars within the horror/gore genre only
Summary: 4 Stars
If you're looking for a schlocky horror movie with lots of excess gore, some gratuitous nudity, a mad scientist, and a reanimated body carrying its head around with it, then this is the movie for you.
Re-Animator is one of those films you hear about as a horror fan, and after watching it it's very clear why. Reanimator is the epitome of tongue-in-cheek horror. Without ever cracking a joke, the film exudes campiness and a bit of sadistic humor.
When Herbert West arrives at medical school and answers medical student Dan Cain's request for a roommate, the fast paced story takes a big leap. All the characters are a bit out there. Dr. Hill, the evil professor with a "thing" for the uptight Dean's daughter, who Cain happens to be engaged to, sets out to steal the research that West has worked on. The research that has resulted in the glowing green substance that brings dead tissue back to life.
Re-Animator stays exciting the entire time, and the story never lets up. And the final climactic showdown between the med students (West and Cain) and the re-animated and headless Dr. Hill is the stuff of horror legend. Don't miss it.
Movie Review: "You agree it's dead now?"
Summary: 4 Stars
Beware all those who are squeamish or easily offended. Re-Animator is of the old school B-horror movie class that revels in gore, nudity and all around madness. It is the perfect melding of humor and horror, as madly brilliant medical student Herbert West perfects his procedure of reanimating the dead. Once perfected (on a very put-upon cat) West begins to reanimate all the dead bodies he comes across, and since this is a horror movie, he stumbles across quite a few. Again, because it is a horror movie the path to perfect reanimation does not run smooth, and West must face the dire consequences of his actions.
The special effects in Re-animator are quite good for 1985, and the tongue-in-cheek tone of the movie makes them even better. They were meant to be laughed at, even in 1985. The acting is much better than the average horror movie, particularly Jeffrey Combs, as the monomaniacal West. In plot, acting and effects the movie is just fine; its in the details that the movie goes gleefully off the rails, making it the most fun horror movie of all time.
Movie Review: A great classic
Summary: 4 Stars
Ever since my husband watched this movie years ago, he got hooked on it. It's one of the classic Sci-Fi Zombie movies he finds worth re-visiting and watching, again and again. If you're a Sci-Fi, Zombie, Horror movie watcher, then this is the movie for you.