Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Re-Animator (1985)

Director: Stuart Gordon. Cast: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale. 86 min. Rated R. Sci-fi/Horror.

Typical 80's sci-fi gore-fest, taking the Frankenstein legend to whole new levels you don't even want to know about. Desperately trying to copy Sam Raimi's style of gory horror-comedies, the story throws so many twisted ideas, after awhile it's just not funny anymore. Easily imaginable for this to have had a cult following - but I'm not sure I'm interested in watching the sequels, Bride of Re-Animator (1990), Beyond Re-Animator (2003), House of Re-Animator (2010), etc etc etc ...

Mo says:

4 comments:

  1. I am part of the CULT! I loved this fast paced hilarious gore-fest. I saw the first sequal which was awful and didn't bother with the rest.

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  2. Keep me updated if you run into any high-quality gore-fests ...

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  3. Try to avoid Shaun of the Dead if you can, generally loved, I hated it. What's the point of a Zom-Rom-Com that is neither horrific or funny. I suppose it did have some Rom in it but I was a Zombie after forcing myself to sit through it! It was based on an episode of the excellent britsitcom Spaced, should have stayed there.

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  4. Sorry ... already saw it! The whole zombie genre is a metaphor of human behavior, so what's wrong with the parody of a metaphor? Or maybe I should've watched the sitcom you mentioned first, to make a educated judgment.

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