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Summary: Note about R and Un rated
Review: It is important to note what the reviewer states about R rated and UN rated copies. I saw the un-rated version on cinema and it was really great, i saw it twice in a week at the Gothenburg film festival in Sweden. Then i bought the video and it was mediocre, partly due to bad soundtrack but also due to the clipping mentioned.
Buy the right copy!!
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Summary: shockingly entertaining
Review: its about gore,gobbs of it..doctor bringing back the deads to life..the dead seeking revenge..hystiriaclly funny..great make up effects..a must see for all horror movie lovers..faint at hearts should surely give it a miss..
watch unrated version for more shocks....
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Summary: This ain't your father's Night of the Living Dead
Review: I actually found a DVD copy of Re-Animator at a Virgin Megastore the other day, and promptly watched it for the first time in years. Based very loosely on H.P. Lovecraft's horror story, "Herbert West: Re-Animator", the film tells the tale of Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs: The Frightners), a young scientist obsessed with the idea of re-animating the dead. The film was released in 1985 to critical praise and decent box office receipts. Over the years it has gone from indie shocker to a supreme cult legend. Like Romero's zombies, the re-animated corpses here aren't very pretty, and they tend to have great strength. Once they're injected with Combs' resurrection fluid, which looks like fluorescent Gatorade, they're able to wreak havoc even if they've been decapitated. Combs' undead professor walks around with his head literally in his hands, babbling about becoming famous for Combs' discovery, while Combs tells him, "Who's going to believe a talking head like you?"The acting is great for something like this, and though this is director Gordon's first film, it's so well conceived and competently helmed that one could assume that he'd been directing for years. He draws inspiration from zombie classics all the way back to FRANKENSTEIN and manages to get it all onto the screen. If anything, the film demonstrates that there's always a few more miles left in even the oldest genre standards. It seems the DVD I got, by Elite Entertainment, was released in the early years of the DVD format. The video transfer looks great. It's widescreen but non-anamorphic. As for the extras: two commentaries with the cast (Bruce Abbot, Jeffery Combs, Robert Sampson, Barbara Crampton), the director, Stuart Gordon and the producer Brian Yuzna (who would go on four years later to direct the sequel, Bride of Re-Animator). Both commentaries are funny, with the cast and crew poking fun of the film as well as reminiscing and sharing secrets to the special effects. Also included is over 20 minutes of additional "R-Rated" footage, including a never before seen "dream sequence" and other deleted scenes.
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Summary: A huge disappointment.
Review: Being a fan of horror and zombie films, I checked out Re-Animator with some fairly high expectations, considering the good reviews. I finished the film feeling sorely disappointed. Why? Well, as a horror/comedy, it's not very funny, and it's certainly far from frightening. Some moments are no doubt quite manically inspired, and Jeffrey Combs delivers a tour-de-force performance, but sadly, the thing that maintains most interest is either Barbara Crampton's nude scenes or the visual effects. The least this film could have achieved was work as a thrill ride, with some good zombie action, but even at that it's underwhelming. Either go back to Romero's Living Dead series or check out The Return of the Living Dead as a great example of how to mix horror and comedy.
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Summary: Excellent horror film, and I found it...!?
Review: I first saw this movie last fall. I rented it at the only place thathad it around my area, and thankfully it was the un-rated version. Iof course loved it immediately. I wanted to buy it, but it has beenlong since out of print. I had heard of the Elite Entertainment dvd ofit, but couldn't find it anywhere. Then two weeks ago i found it. Itwas the Elite Dvd Special edition. I was so pleased that I dropped theother dvd I was going to buy and snatched a copy of Re-Animator. Itwas pricey for a dvd, but I didn't care. I was really amazed that theyhad it, since I knew that this version had been out of print for sometime. It also seems odd that Elite would re-release it, since anchorbay entertainment is re-releasing it next year. Then yesterday I wentback and all of the dvd's were gone. This was weird since there waslike 30 of them only a week ago. Now I know this is a popular horrorfilm, but that kind of mass sell out is a bit ridiculous. Which meansthey took it off the shelves. Why did they do this? There could beseveral reasons, I really don't know. I'm just happy that I bought acopy when I did. The picture quality is very good and the specialfeatures are good also. The deleted scenes and commentary were veryinteresting. So I don't know what Anchor Bay's edition could have thatthis one didn't. A featurette maybe? I don't know. I just thought thiswhole thing of finding a very rare dvd was weird. I wanna know ifanyone else has seen it to buy anywhere? I bought mine at... Maybethis store made a goof and wasn't supposed to distribute these dvds, Idon't know. Anyway just thought I would share this. Again, love themovie and am very happy that I found the dvd. See ya.
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Summary: Just Bought This On DVD?
Review: ... the DVD was released by Elite Entertainment. The features on the DVD include: widescreen, two commentaries, trailers, and best of all, 20 extra minutes of the film. This is the unrated edition, and it's well worth looking for.
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Summary: Just A Word Of Hope
Review: Anchor Bay is rereleasing this film in 2002. So those of us who have been without one of the best Horror/Comdies will have a chance to purchase it. That is all.
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Summary: This is a hidden gem.
Review: Re-Animator is one of the funnest, cleverest most intelligently scripted horror movies I have ever seen. I highly recommend this movie for fans of over the top scare flicks. I do have to send out a warning. The DVD version is the director's cut and is inferior to the regular cut. Amazingly the 'uncut' version is actually the shorter of the two. The regular theatrical showing deleted a lot of scenes but added others to pad the story out however in my opinion the additional tamer scenes are better, in fact I would say that some are pivotal. One example. In the movie Dan Cain is dating Dean Halsey's daughter which seems to be perfectly fine with Halsey. From out of the blue he becomes enraged with Dan and kicks him out of the school. The reason it makes no sense is because the scene where Halsey is hyponized into hating Dan was removed. In another scene Doctor Hill uses his power of suggestion on Herbert West until he actually begin's cry. This is a powerful scene but yet again it was removed. Time and time again the regular scenes are better than the director's cut scenes.
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Summary: Greatest Midnight Movies Ever Made - Review # 1
Review: "You killed him!" "No I did not! I gave him life!" With that quick exchange, followed by Richard Band's witty musical score, Re-Animator kicks off in high gear. What would follow is simply the definitive dark-humor cult classic.
I came upon this film in the horror section of my local video score. Of course, I knew I was in for a unique experience when I read the tag-line for the film. "Herbert West has a very good head on his shoulders... and another one on a dish on his desk!" The back cover offered critical praise (one source quoted it as one of the top ten films of the year) and a thrilling shot of a decapitated corpse carrying around it's head in a dish (!?!).
Re-Animator is a classic horror comedy about a young medical student (Herbert West, played by the extraordinary Jeffrey Combs) who discovers a serum that, when injected into the recently deceased, causes them to spring violently to life. That's the basic premise, but director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna inject so much energy into the film that it seems like a grisly rollercoaster ride of thrills and laughs. The film plays like a weird homage to Frankenstein, and it sure holds up as being one of the mad-scientist greats!
Up until a certain point, we witness Herbert West's fanatical commentary on his theory of brain death and the re-animation of dead tissue. We also witness the re-animation of a dead cat (not a pretty sight), but up until about the midway point of the film, we have been presented with a leasurly pace, some great character development, and funny one-liners.
Of course, all that changes when West enlists the assistance of a fellow student, Dan Cain (Bruce Abbot), to sneak into the morgue at night and try some hands-on research on some fresh specimins. Not soon after that, Herbert West's experiments begin to lose control, and very soon, the entire film zips along with a breakneck pace. Body parts, gallons of blood, and physical humor are intercut at a furious pace, and the whole thing is intellectually undercut with some talk of science and medicine.
There is one scene where Stuart Gordon slows down the action long enough to strive for some exploitation (the infamous "head" scene), and after that... he lets all hell break loose.
A thrilling climax at the morgue is both exciting, funny, gruesome, and awe inspiring. It's a magnificent set-piece the perfectly compliments this great film.
Re-Animator is based on the creepy H.P. Lovecraft story (Herbert West--Re-Animator) and spawned a great sequel (Bride of Re-Animator). With great acting, a complex plot, hilarious humor, and the sight of a man walking around with his head in a dishpan, Re-Animator is the greatest film ever made!
And if that isn't enough to pursuade you to see this film... maybe this quote will:
"You'll never take credit for my discovery. Who's going to believe a talking head? Get a job in a sideshow!"
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Summary: Yucky
Review: This movie is disturbing and perverse. But I gave it 4 stars because it is also the type of movie you will remember forever. But it's not for the weak of stomache or for those of us who get grossed out by...well I don't want to ruin it for you. The movie is more like a nightmare, it doesn't make much sense and it's not that scary, but you still spend the rest of the night thinking about it.
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