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Summary: The BEST horror movie of the 80s
Review: Re-Animator has to be the best horror movie of the 80s next to Evil Dead. The movie has tons of gruesome special effect to spare with a classic scene involving a head and a woman. A nerdy scientist brings back the dead corpses with a neon-like liquid in a needle causing them to turn into zombies and then the fun starts when the scientist re-animates a dead cat and the cat comes back and that scene is hilarious and the classic scene with the severed head and the woman strapped to the woman is so outrageous that it is so hilarious. The gruesome stuff in the movie is a man's head is decapitated with a shovel,eyeballs being exploded,a dead man's head being peeled so you could see the skull. Though it is the best horror movie, it isn't really recommended for squeamish viewers. Also recommended:Dawn of the Dead(1978),Dead Alive,The Toxic Avenger part 1 and 3,Evil Dead 1 and 2,Zombie(aka Zombi or Zombi 2),and Basket Case.
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Summary: Heeeere, Kitty-Kitty-Kitty...
Review: Strange things are happening at Miskatonic Medical school. All was well until Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) showed up. He is an odd looking / odder acting man with insane ideas about re-animating the dead. West moves in with med student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) and his cat, Rufus. Unbeknownst to Dan, West is conducting his unholy experiments in the basement. One night, Dan's girlfriend Megan (Barbara "Where are my clothes?" Crampton) notices that Rufus is missing. She finds him in West's refrigerator, looking like a road-kill sandwich. Later that night, Dan is awakened by sounds that still drop my body temperature when I recall them! Hideous howls and screeches ring throughout the house. Dan grabs a baseball bat and investigates, only to find West in his basement laboratory, battling a re-animated and VERY ticked-off Rufus! With Dan's help, Rufus is vanquished, and used to redecorate the walls. West re-animates the poor feline a second time with his glowing, green "re-agent" serum to prove to Dan that he means business (or, that he really hates cats). Dan is forced to help Herbert when he threatens to tell the dean (Robert Sampson) that Dan is sleeping with his daughter. One thing leads to another, and the diabolical duo end up in the morgue, re-animating a cadaver. Learning nothing from the Rufus fiasco, our heroes get thrown around the room by a convulsing, zombified madman! Dean Halsey shows up and gets himself squished, leading to his own re-animation. Herbert makes up a story about the dean attacking them for no apparent reason. Convinced he's gone nuts, the dean is put under the care of Dr. Hill (David Gale), a brilliant, slimeball of a brain-surgeon, who keeps Halsey locked up in his office for "observation" and lobotomizes him. Hill figures things out and decides to steal West's ideas for himself. Extremely bad choice! West beheads Hill with a coal shovel and re-animates both his head and body separately. Hill wakes up, his head in a pan. He controls his body from across the room and knocks West out. Hill goes back to his office and releases the dean, who kidnaps his daughter for him. You see, Dr. Hill has sick desires for Megan and plans to bring them into reality, regardless of his decapitated condition! This leads to the gooey, gloppy climax in the morgue. Loads of nudity, raspberry jam, and slithering rubber entrails abound. RE-ANIMATOR is not recommended for viewing while eating lasagna or spaghetti & meatballs. A must-own mad scientist / zombie / dark humor classic...
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Summary: You wanna see a REAL horror movie?
Review: The best horror movie ever made, period. For me anyway, this has to be my personal favorite. Forget all that Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer junk. You wanna see a REAL horror movie? Rent this one. Skip it if you're squeamish, though--trust me on this. The plot is taken (loosely) from an HP Lovecraft tale, "Herbert West, Re-animator". The taglines kinda say it all. Dan Cain is a young medical student dating the Dean's daughter, who takes in a roomer and meets up with West, brilliantly played by Jeffrey Combs. West has discovered a "reagent" that will bring the dead back to life, except the serum still needs lots of work. When the dead people wake up, they do not seem happy at all to be brought back, and in fact have the tempermant of a grizzly bear on PCP. Added to the mix is the creepy Dr. Hill (who looks like an uglier, way creepier version of James Woods), who clashes with West and also has an icky obsession with Dean Halsey's daughter. (the attraction results in the movie's most outrageous scene that I'm sure you've heard about, which gives new meaning to a slang term for oral sex that..well, you'll figure it out). This movie is scary, gory, original, and above all, lots of fun. Just when you think it can't get any more over-the-top, it does. Combs steals the show as West, who looks like a cartoon version of a brainy young scientist with huge hornrimmed glasses. I appreciate his performance more each time I view the movie. He gets most of the best lines, such as when Dan yells at him when a hysterical Meg has found her pet cat, Rufus, in West's fridge with a broken neck, that if he found the cat that way as he claimed, West could have left a note. "A note saying what? 'Dan: cat dead. Details later'?" he dryly replies. Stuart Gordon made other great movies later on such as From Beyond and The Pit and the Pendulum (also with Combs) but he never topped this underrated, underseen gem. A word of caution-make sure you are renting the unrated version, as the R version has most of the gore cut out and the last 20 great minutes reduced to 5 or so. The R rated version has some scenes not in the unrated one that you might find interesting if you are a big fan (I rented it by accident) but really, the unrated version is the way to go.
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Summary: A horror classic from the 80's is reborn on DVD.
Review: This 1985 Cult Horror comedy stars " Jeffery Combs" in his first role before he was in Star Trek: Deep Space 9. The story is about a Mad Scientist named " Herbert West" who has created a special serum that can bring the dead back to life, now he finds an assistant to help him with his experimentations but things go out of control as the Dead start to kill including a former Surgeon who's head now seeks revenge. A highly entertaining, gory and funny movie with great acting for a B-Movie, good script and blood this not for the squeamish.
The DVD here is excellent, with it's second disk it has more goodies that every fan of horror would enjoy. Similar movies recommended: Day of the Dead, The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, The Toxic Avenger, Texas Chainsaw Massacre part 2, An American Werewolf in London, Lucio Fulci's The Beyond, Frankenstein, Scanners, aand Dead Alive.
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Summary: Utterly Disgusting
Review: This is a warning to any horror fan. This movie is extremely disgusting and has absouletly NO point what so ever. I feel bad for jeffery combs, because of this movie his repuataion is now worse than ever. The gore is over the top, and there is no plot, besides phystoic zombies trying to kill people. Here is the gore that this movie has: Decapitation by shovel, bitten off fingers, a bone saw through the stomach, someone pulling off some guys skin, than revealing the skull, and with a bone saw removes the skull, and picks up the brain and plays with it, we see a guy shove a Q-tip in a hole in someones for head, a cat with a broken neck, a stomach exploding with organs coming to life and attacking someone, eyes exploding, a head being impaled on a needle and lots more blood plus a head that falls off after being hit by a woman. For violence, we get someone being hit in the head with a shovel, someone being thrown into the wall with extreme force breaking the glass, slapping, hitting and punching to ward off a dead zombie. Overall, I think this movie was a waste of money. But, now that you know what the movie is truly about, you can make that descision for yourself.
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Summary: Best Lovecraft Adaption of All Time
Review: This is not only the best H.P. Lovecraft adaption of all time, but one of the best horror films of all time, period. Lovecraft has had some good adaptions, namely From Beyond and Dagon, not to mention The Dunwich Horror. This rises to the very top because of the inspired acting, amazingly gory special effects, hot chick, a really good and creepy soundtrack, the steady hand of director Stuart Gordon, and the production of Brian Yuzna. The story is, a science major at Miskatonic University is working on a special serum to reanimate (hence the film's title) the dead. His buddy also from Mistakonic is right with him and has a hot hot girlfriend. When the science professor finds out, he blackmails Herbert West,and the rest is history as they say. This was based on the short story Herbet West: Reanimator by Howard Philip Lovecraft. Lovecraft adaptions usually get panned for two reasons. 1- allegedly unfaithful adaptions. My response is, the Lovecraft short stories are just that- SHORT STORIES. To make a feature length film, Howard didn't give filmmakers enough to work with by himself. The filmmakers beefed it up in every adaption. The movies are more hardcore. 2- they are cheesey. Yeah, yeah, yeah some of them like The Curse are on the cheesey side. Well, this one isn't; neither is From Beyond, Dagon or Dunwich Horror. You are not a horror film fan unless you like Reanimator. Easily one of the best horror films of the 1980s, one of the best horror films of all time and the best H.P. Lovecraft adaption ofr all time. Well worth your money. P.S.- This is a review of the Unrated version on VHS as it appears listed here in o.o.p. on Amazon.com. There exists two in-print DVD versions of Re-animator as of Spring 2004. One is a standard R rated version, and the other is a two disc Millenium version, which also sadly rated R. Avoid the R-rated version at all costs, as it is missing some of the gore and nudity that makes the un-rated version more preferable.
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Summary: WOW!!!!!!!!!!
Review: THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST HORROR/ZOMBIE MOVIES OF ALL TIME, IT ACTUALLY HAD THE BALLS TO BE RELEASED UNRATED, WITH OTHER MOVIES SUCH AS RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD AND DAY OF THE DEAD COMING OUT AT THE SAME TIME IT HAD ALOT TO LIVE UP TO, BUT AS A FAN OF ALL OF THESE MOVIES RE- ANIMATOR WAS TOPS. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MOVIE TAKE SOME TIME TO DO SO, IT IS TRUELY ONE TO BE LOVED AND WILL WITHOUT A DOUBT LIVE ON FOR YEARS. IF YOU ARE A FAN OF PETER JACKSON'S DEAD ALIVE, YOU WILL LOVE RE-ANIMATOR. TRUST ME.
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