Screen/Society--"Re-Animator" (Stuart Gordon, 1985, 35mm) [Halloween Week]

"Re-Animator"
(Stuart Gordon, 1985, 105 min, USA, English, Color, 35mm)

H.P. Lovecraft and Lucio Fulci did not team up to make the most amazing gore-sex grotesquerie of 1985. But thanks to "Re-Animator", they didn't have to. Feeling like an amalgam of "Frankenstein", "The Beyond", and "Revenge of the Nerds", "Re-Animator" is where science meets chaos to produce an hyperactive overdose of gruesome insanity. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a new student at Miskatonic University. He also moonlights as a mad scientist, intent on perfecting a serum that "re-animates" corpses. Soon, everyone wants a piece of the action, including an evil professor and his army of slime-covered deadites. With berserker direction from Stuart Gordon, career-defining roles from horror icons Barbara Crampton and Jeffrey Combs, and a scene of two adults chasing an undead cat in a basement, "Re-Animator" isn't just a masterpiece of the horror genre -- it's a masterpiece of life. (American Genre Film Archive)

"Calling 'Re-Animator' a crucial gore movie is like saying that fire is hot."
-- Zack Carlson, co-author of "Destroy All Movies".

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