Re-Animator
Directed by Stuart Gordon7.189%82%7.0
Forskaren Herbert West har uppfunnit ett serum som kan väcka de döda till liv. Efter en tid i Schweiz återvänder Herbert till sina studier i USA och flyttar ihop med sin intet ont anande kurskamrat Dan och hans flickvän, och det dröjer inte länge förrän han återupptar sina experiment på parets katt. Dan blir till en början förskräckt av Herberts sjuka experiment men snart övertalas han att smuggla in sin vän på sjukhusets bårhus. Herberts serum väcker de döda ur sin slummer och en blodig våldsspiral tar sin början.
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Re-Animator Ratings & Reviews
- skotjay5 april 2025"Who's going to believe a talking head? Get a job at a sideshow!"
- skidro610 november 2025Awesome movie. Jeffrey Combs never disappoints
- Ben22 september 2025Plagiarist!
- Adam Neely22 oktober 2025Great film but don't expect it to Tango, it's got a broken back!
- JaredXIII19 oktober 2025An all-time cult classic favourite— and it's easy to see why! Hilarious! Weird! Wild! Stunning! Very Quotable! THE REANIMATOR is one of the Top 10 Best Movies to Watch Around Halloween on basically any of the dozens of list you can find on the internet-- and for good reason. This movie is just so fantastically campy & creepy that it's no wonder why it's become such a classic.
- Derek19 oktober 2025When I first got into horror as a kid, I rented every classic and would watch every horror movie I could get my hands on. I can’t believe I missed this film! It was awesome! And young me would’ve totally dug this one. Old me absolutely loved it!
- Michael Heimgartner18 oktober 2025A Bloody, Bizarre Delight – with Limits Re-Animator (1985), directed by Stuart Gordon and loosely based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, is a cult splatterfest that lives and breathes pure genre madness. It’s over-the-top, outrageously gory and soaked in pitch-black humor, and that’s exactly what makes it such an enduring favorite among horror fans. Watching it today, I still find plenty to enjoy, though I wouldn’t go as far as calling it a masterpiece. The practical effects are what truly steal the show. They’re grotesque, gooey, and gleefully absurd. While some scenes feel more like midnight-movie parody than true horror, there’s an undeniable charm in how far Gordon is willing to go. It’s not afraid to be completely unhinged, especially in the final act, which explodes into a crescendo of body horror and black comedy inside a morgue that has seen far too much. Jeffrey Combs is brilliant as the obsessively unhinged Dr. Herbert West. He walks a fine line between mad scientist cliché and genuinely magnetic screen presence. Barbara Crampton, as always, commits fully to the madness around her, and while some performances may come off as campy or stiff, they work within the film’s tone. It doesn’t aim for realism, it aims for gleeful chaos and mostly succeeds. Where the film loses some points for me is in its pacing and tone. There are stretches where the story feels thin and a bit directionless. It's never boring, but there’s a slight feeling of repetition, and some of the shock value feels like it’s there just to be provocative, not to support the narrative. Additionally, the blend of horror and humor, while mostly successful, doesn’t always land with the same consistency. Some gags are brilliant, others feel a bit forced. That said, it’s a film that never pretends to be more than what it is: a wild, gory ride made with passion, creativity and practical ingenuity. It’s no wonder it has such a devoted fanbase and spawned sequels. For fans of outrageous body horror and horror comedies, this is essential viewing. But for viewers looking for more substance or subtlety, Re-Animator might feel like a bloody mess without much meaning. I agree that Re-Animator shines most when it embraces its chaotic identity. It’s a cult classic for a reason, just not a flawless one. Worth seeing, worth admiring for its practical effects and sheer audacity but not quite a horror masterpiece in my book.
- Paul Bufano16 oktober 2025"Did you ever see that movie where the body is walking around carrying its own head and then the head goes down on that babe?"
- Tedflix20 september 2025Schlocky fun
- ahwoo6 augusti 2025A timeless horror classic with a dash of twisted humor.
- Carlos Ibarra24 juli 2025Easily the best of the Lovecraft adaptations so far. Still holds up, still such a blast. Great effects, great humor, great horror.
Re-Animator Trivia
Re-Animator was released on 18 oktober 1985.
Re-Animator was directed by Stuart Gordon.
Re-Animator has a runtime of 86m.
Re-Animator was produced by Brian Yuzna.
Forskaren Herbert West har uppfunnit ett serum som kan väcka de döda till liv. Efter en tid i Schweiz återvänder Herbert till sina studier i USA och flyttar ihop med sin intet ont anande kurskamrat Dan och hans flickvän, och det dröjer inte länge förrän han återupptar sina experiment på parets katt. Dan blir till en början förskräckt av Herberts sjuka experiment men snart övertalas han att smuggla in sin vän på sjukhusets bårhus. Herberts serum väcker de döda ur sin slummer och en blodig våldsspiral tar sin början.
The key characters in Re-Animator are Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), Megan Halsey (Barbara Crampton).
Re-Animator is rated 15.
Re-Animator is a Science Fiction, Komedi, Skräck film.
Re-Animator has an audience rating of 8.2 out of 10.
Re-Animator had a budget of 900 tn US$.
Re-Animator has made 2 mn US$ at the box office.