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Herbert West Has A Very Good Head On His Shoulders… And Another One In A Dish On His Desk
RE-ANIMATOR is the ultimate 1980s body horror experience, a joyously grotesque peer of Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN, Lucio Fulci’s THE BEYOND and Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD. 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 neon-slimed deadites. With berserker direction from Stuart Gordon, career-defining roles from genre icons Barbara Crampton and 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. Celebrate its 40th anniversary in style with this new 4K restoration!
“The bloodier it gets, the funnier it is. It's like pop Buñuel; the jokes hit you in a subterranean comic zone that the surrealists' pranks sometimes reached, but without the surrealists' self-consciousness (and art-consciousness).” —Pauline Kael, New Yorker
“It's simply the best, funniest Grand Guignol horror picture to come along in ages.” —Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
“The bloodier it gets, the funnier it is. It's like pop Buñuel; the jokes hit you in a subterranean comic zone that the surrealists' pranks sometimes reached, but without the surrealists' self-consciousness (and art-consciousness).” —Pauline Kael, New Yorker
“A deft, funny, fearless, and gloriously tasteless mix of horror and comedy, RE-ANIMATOR proves that entertainment value trumps virtually every other concern.” —Keith Phipps, The Dissolve