Re-Animator

Jeffrey Combs Director: Stuart Gordon Stuart Gordon

Overview

Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a brilliant medical student who has perfected a green-glowing serum for regenerating life into dead things -- or even parts of dead things. But a corrupt superior, Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale), assumes control of West's experiments and winds up, by ghastly necessity, using the stuff on his own severed head and body. West and in-over-his-head co-worker Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) struggle to control the now out-of-control effects of the serum, but the bone-saws and zombies complicate their plans. ~ Buzz McClain

Product Details

Release Date:	01/30/2018
UPC:	0760137094296
Original Release:	1985
Source:	Arrow Video
Region Code:	0
Time:	1:26:00
Sales rank:	24,584

Special Features

Isolated score Brand new audio commentry with director Stuart Gordon and actors Graham Skipper and Jesse Merlin of Re-Animator: The Musical Audio commentary with Stuart Gordon Audio commentary with producer Brian Yuzna and actors Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Bruce Abbott and Robert Sampson Re-Animator: Resurrectus - feature-length documentary on the making of the film, featuring extensive interviews with cast and crew Interviews with director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna, writer Dennis Paoli, composer Richard Band and former Fangoria editor Tony Timpone Music discussion with composer Richard Band Barbara Crampton in Conversation - the Re-Animator star sits down with journalist Alan Jones for this career-spanning 2015 interview The Catastrophe of Success: Stuart Gordon and The Organic Theater - director Stuart Gordon discusses his early theater roots and his continued commitment to the stage Theater of Blood - Re-Animator: The Musical lyricist Mark Nutter on adapting the cult classic for musical theater Extended scenes Deleted scene Trailer TV spots Stills gallery Screenplay (DVD-ROM Content)

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jeffrey Combs	Herbert West
Bruce Abbott	Dan Cain
Barbara Crampton	Megan Halsey
Robert Sampson	Dean Halsey
David Gale	Dr. Carl Hill
Gerry Black	Mace
Lillian Avery	Hospital Extra
Ed Brummett	Hospital Extra
Bruce Cohn Curtis	Hospital Extra
Kim Deitch	Hospital Extra
Steve Frakes	Hospital Extra
Annyce Holzman	E-R Patient Corpse
Bob Johnnene	Hospital Extra
Stephen Keinzle	Hospital Extra
Grace Keller	Hospital Extra
Peter Marti	Hospital Extra
Michael Muscal	Hospital Extra
Tom Reeves	Hospital Extra
Greg Robbins	Hospital Extra
Jerry Thomas	Hospital Extra
Robert Veilleuz	Hospital Extra
Tim White	Hospital Extra
Carolyn Purdy-Gordon	Dr. Harrod
Peter Kent	Melvin the Re-Animated
Barbara Peters	Nurse
Ian Williams	Swiss Professor
Bunny Summers	Swiss Woman Doctor
Al Berry	Dr. Gruber
Derek Pendleton	Swiss Policeman #1
Gene Scherer	Swiss Policeman No. 2
James Ellis	Psycho Ward Guard No. 1
James Earl Cathay	Psycho Ward Guard #2
Velvet de bois	Slit Wrist Girl Corpse
Lawrence Lowe	Failed Operation Corpse
Robert Holcomb	Motorcycle Accident Corpse
Mike Filloon	Bullet Wound to the Face Corpse
Greg Reid	One Arm Guy Corpse
Jack Draheim	Tall Skinny Guy Corpse
Robert Pitzele	Bald O-R Corpse

Technical Credits

Stuart Gordon

William J. Norris

Dennis Paoli

Stuart Gordon	Director,Screenwriter
Mac Ahlberg	Cinematographer
Michael Avery	Executive Producer
Becky Block	Set Decoration/Design
Dan Bradley	Stunts
John Carl Buechler	Makeup Special Effects
Robert A. Burns	Art Director
Robin Burton	Costumes/Costume Designer
Bruce Curtis	Executive Producer
Anthony Doublin	Makeup Special Effects
Bob Greenberg	Associate Producer
Sharon A. Long	Makeup
John Naulin	Makeup Special Effects
William J. Norris	Screenwriter
Dennis Paoli	Screenwriter
Lee Percy	Editor
Richard H. Band	Score Composer
Charles Donald Storey	Associate Producer
Brian Yuzna	Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Re-Animator
1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12

Menu

Disc #1 -- Re-Animator
   Play Film
   Scene Select
   Special Features
      Re-Animator: Resurrectus
      Interviews
         Director Stuart Gordon And Producer Brian Yuzna
         Writer Dennis Paoli
         Composer Richard Band
         Fangoria Editor Tony Timpone
      Music Discussion With Composer Richard Band
      Barbara Crampton In Conversation
      The Catastrophe Of Success
      Theater Of Blood
      Audio Commentaries
         Audio Commentary With Stuart Gordon
         Audio Commentary With Cast & Crew
         Audio Commentary With Stuart Gordon, Graham Skipper & Jesse Merlin
      Extended Scenes
      Deleted Scene
      Trailer
      TV Spots
      Still Gallery
   Setup
      English Mono
      English Stereo
      English 5.1
      Isolated Score
      Audio Commentaries
      Subtitles: Off
      English SDH Subtitles: On

Editorial Reviews

This raw, bloody, low-budget horror-comedy was loosely based on stories by H.P. Lovecraft. The story deals with college med students reviving dead bodies with a serum which accidentally turns them into violent, bloodthirsty zombies. Jeffrey Combs is perfect as the obsessed Dr. West, and Bruce Abbott makes a good naive straight-man for Combs' nerdy lunatic. The late David Gale stands out as the jealous Dr. Hill, who ends up decapitated, then re-animated and wandering around with his head in his hands, only to perform a particularly foul act upon nude scream-queen Barbara Crampton. Director Stuart Gordon stages some impressive gore scenes and some very funny gallows humor; many consider Re-Animator as the best American splatter comedy of the '80s.

All Movie Guide - Robert Firsching

Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator is a pleasure...a frankly gory horror movie that finds a rhythm and a style that make it work in a cockeyed, offbeat sort of way.

Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert

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