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Re-Animator [Blu-ray]

Jeffrey Combs (Actor), Bruce Abbott (Actor) Rated:
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Format: Blu-ray
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 2,951 ratings
IMDb7.2/10.0
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Contributor Timothy White, Bruce Cohn Curtis, Robert Veilleuz, Peter Marti, Cathy Yuzna, James Earl Cathay, Stephen Kienzle, Darryl Dick, Bruce Abbott, Derek Pendleton, Robert Sampson, Ed Brummett, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Eric Gartner, Janice Sims, Tom Reeves, Ian Patrick Williams, Stephen Keinzle, Greg Robbins, Bob Johnnene, Lillian Avery, Greg Reid, James Ellis, Jeffrey Combs, Brian Yuzna, Donna Matson, Peter Martin, Tim White, David Gale, Donna Wilkie, Gerry Black, Bruce Curtis, Robert Holcomb, Stuart Dennis, Gene Scherer, Mike Filloon, Lavonda Lawson, Carrie Shear, Barbara Crampton, Marta Goodfellow, Lisa S Girolami, Steve Knudsen, Sara Curtis, Terri Lynn, Hans Jonnason, Grace Keller, Anna Coates, Annyce Holzman, Velvet de bois, Lawrence Lowe, Velvet Debois, Carolyn-Purdy Gordon, Jerry Thomas, Ed Haggarty, Greg Rose, Carol Thomas, Bunny Summers, Kim Deitch, Walter Sims, Michael Muscal, Philharmonic Orchestra Of Rome (Philharmonic Orchestra Of Rome), Ricky Woodard, Peter Kent, Bob Johnnen, Kevin Indio Copeland, Robert Pitzele, Barbara Peters, Linda Adams, Steve Frakes, Jack Draheim, Ian Williams, Alana Anderson, Barbara Pieters, Al Berry, Stuart Gordon, Jeffrey Comstock, Donald Olsen, Frederic Gartner See more
Language English
Number Of Discs 1
Runtime 1 hour and 25 minutes
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Product Description

A mad inventor brings a headless doctor back to life with a special serum. From an H.P. Lovecraft story.

Product details

  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 14381822052
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Stuart Gordon
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, NTSC, Widescreen, Dolby
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 25 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ September 4, 2012
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, Robert Sampson, David Gale
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Brian Yuzna
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Image Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008CYDDWI
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 2,951 ratings

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4.7 out of 5 stars
4.7 out of 5
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Red Carpet treatment for an 80's classic
5 Stars
Red Carpet treatment for an 80's classic
This review refers to the 2017 2-disc Arrow Blu-ray release. If you're a Re-Animator fan or even a horror film fan in general, this totally belongs on your library. I couldn't be happier with it. First of all, you get the remastered traditional unrated version and the movie looks better than it ever has. There's also the "Integral Version," the extended cut with extra scenes. The supplements are plentiful, including an informative making-of documentary fans will no doubt enjoy. The fold-out packaging is gorgeous and includes a booklet and 4 postcard-style cards. As a fan, I truly could not recommend this set enough.
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johnny blade
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024
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Finally upgraded my old Elite DVD from the 90s. Transfer looks great and the special features are sweet. Jeffrey Combs does entertaining commentary tracks.
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TechnoMachinima1996
5.0 out of 5 stars Still a masterpiece after 35 years!
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2020
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I remember when I first saw this movie I was in my early teens barely having heard of it before. My only frame of reference was my oldest brother and my mother talking about it with me being too young to understand what they were getting at, at the time. Well before I saw it when my brothers bought a used VHS of the now considerably rare R-rated version, I had never seen any previews, snuck a peek at any scenes, nor did I have any concept as to who H.P. Lovecraft even was. Anyhoo, once I saw it(with scenes that I didn't know at the time weren't in the Unrated version) I instantly loved the whole concept and story but was disappointed in the minimal gore and minimal nudity. Thankfully it wasn't that long until I had some birthday money to happily find a used VHS copy of the Unrated version. While the gore and nudity was what I wanted, I was still shocked to see which scenes were still used, which scenes from the R-rated version weren't used, plus the gore, graphic violence, and nudity were intense for me at first(as per seeing them all for the very first time but after many more watches I got something out of both versions plus saw one brilliant zombie not at all like anything that I had seen before. All of that being said, I have since then become an instant fan of it's first sequel of Bride of Re-Animator and several years later Beyond Re-Animator, finally I have upgraded to the DVD's of them and now the Blu-rays.

In this review I will focus on the actor's performances, the characters, the gore effects, the humor, and the eye-candy.

First I can't emphasize enough everyone's excellent performances. Let's start of course with Herbert West aka Re-Animator himself, Jeffrey Combs. I have heard that Combs was a stage actor originally and his actor experience more than shows here. He literally stays right in character playing Dr. Herbert West a young, highly eager/enthusiastic, stern, obsessed, opinionated, questionably moral, highly scientific, genius of whom is willing to do all he deems necessary to beat death through science. Bruce Abbot is excellent as his semi-reluctant partner of who is young, handsome, likable, cool headed, and considerably torn between West's experiments and his relationship with his beautiful girlfriend Megan. David Gail is great as the plagiaristic, manipulative, sleazy, evil, ruthless, and cunning foil to Dr. West, Dr. Carl Hill.

The gore effects are sensational with practical effects, live actors to play the zombies, realistic gore, and creative looks to the morgue zombies gruesome looks. Also having David Gail as Dr. Hill seem to have his severed head and body perform both separately and together was pure genius.

Among funny scenes in the movie one that definitely gives me a chuckle is when Dr. Cain and Dr. West struggle with a living dead Rufus the cat. Also, Jeffrey Combs has several funny moments in his classic deadpan deliveries. Among them my most favorite of his hilarious lines is, "Who'd listen to a talking head? Get a job in the sideshow." That line always gives me a guffaw.

Barbara Crampton is gorgeous, a believable character, and most of all she is just plain smoking hot. She makes for both great eye-candy and sex appeal as pleasing as her nude scenes are in general.

Overall, if you love zombie movies(serious or comedic), love great 80's horror(serious or comedic), love Jeffrey Combs, enjoy excellent gore and practical effects, enjoy a good villain, enjoy great sex appeal and nudity, If you are into Lovecraft and in general just love a great classic with all of the best stuff to be entertaining, well then this movie is right up your alley. A MUST SEE!!! 10 STARS OUT OF 10!!!
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Hwang
5.0 out of 5 stars Art du Art from Stuart Gordon
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2014
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The first venture into the horror genre by Executive Producer, Brian Yuzna, featuring Director, Stuart Gordon, in an excellent screenplay written by Dennis Paoli and Stuart Gordon, infused with element of black humor that repulses and shocks, leaving the audience between revulsion, horror and bleak laughter, constituting one of the most controversial cult classics which has garnered a worldwide fan base and cult following, that practically launched the career of the Brian Yuzna/Stuart Gordon pairing and rendered them a force to be reckoned with in the horror genre that features an iconic soundtrack that is comparable to those of Amadeus, Immortal Beloved, Everybody Says I Love You, Singing in the Rain, The Terminator, Hellraiser, Tales from the Crypt, X-Files, and Beauty and the Beast, which, nevertheless, features less than commendable performances by Jeffrey Combs (who plays the part of the arrogant and somewhat demented Herbert West) and the ever captivating Barbara Crampton (who plays the heroine Megan, whose physique had yet to develop into the break taking one reflected in From Beyond), both of whom made their feature debut in this horror flick and, as a result, were relatively inexperienced in the art of acting, in a story that much like the famed Monkey's Paw revolves around the theme of reanimation, based upon a story by the legendary grandmaster of gothic fiction, H.P. Lovecraft (which is characteristic of all the early ventures of the Brian Yuzna/Stuart Gordon pairing), witnesses Herbert being expelled from a university for conducting live human experiments that brought Dr. Gruberk back to life in an experiment gone awry using a revolutionary reagent that has enabled him to conquer brain death, and being accepted into a university that sees him under the tutelage of Dr. Hill, who claims that there is no feasible way to conquer brain death, only to find himself attempting to steal credit for Herbert's reagent when he discovers that Herbert has used his reagent to bring Dean Hall, Megan's father, back to life after he was butchered to death resultant of an experiment with a patient who had died of heart failure gone awry, ironically, to find himself being beheaded and brought to life by Hebert, and, having being so brought back to life, finding him attempting to satisfy his obsession with Megan by literally giving her head while she is being spread eagle (the iconic moment of the movie which caused a stir with the MPAA, and the most memorable and talked about moment of the movie), and Dr. Hill bringing forth to life all reanimated corpses for which he has gained controlled through the process of lobotomy (which in a pseudo-scientific way enables him to hypnotically control the reanimated corpses), which Cain, Megan's boyfriend and Herbert's co-conspirator in the illegitimate experiments, manages to put to rest when Megan elicits a flicker of conscious thought that enables her father to rebel against Herbert's control and enables him to collude with Cain in disposing of all the reanimated corpses, and, being driven to the brink, witnessing Cain making the same mistake that Louis Creed did in Pet Sematary with his son, Cage, and his wife, Rachel, in another movie that alludes to Monkey's Paw, by attempting to bring Megan back to life by injecting her with the reagent.

A ground breaking movie that comes with high recommendations.
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Bradders
5.0 out of 5 stars Dont go in the basement
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2023
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Ive heard through the grapevine the tales of Herbert West and how good this film is. And that its a must watch for any fan of horror special effects. And finally, for us brits, we can own it on blu-ray thanks to Second Sight. Comes with 2 cuts of the film. The unrated (director preferred) and integral (combines unrated and extra scenes filmed for tv. Technically making it the fullest version). The unrated cut is a 4k restoration whilst the integral cut is standard blu-ray. I can only speak for the integral cuts quality (i decided to dive straight in) - it looks and sounds great! Has me giddy to see the quality of the 4k restoration of the unrated cut. Has some great extras too (if thats your thing).
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Domenico Tirendi
5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo film è discreto video
Reviewed in Italy on May 9, 2021
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Il film si vede bene... il video è quello che è in quanto non si tratta dell’edizione rimasterizzata... è un cult dell’horror gore e splatter ed è entrato di diritto tra gli horror più significativi del secolo!
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DannoReplicant
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente producto
Reviewed in Mexico on August 11, 2017
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Bluray de la cinta Re-Animator del director Stuart Gordon editado por la compañía ARROW VIDEO, el cual incluye dos cortes de la misma ('unrated version' e 'integral version') la cual viene cada una en su propio disco contenido en un slipcover de cartón duro, con entrevistas, audio de comentarios con el director y elenco, ademas de materia extra con documentales de la realización de la cinta y el cine inspirado por la obra literaria de H. P. Lovecraft. Todo contenido en un slipcover de carton duro acompañado ademas de tarjetas postales con imágenes de la película y una edición del cómic editado en 1991 de la película en su totalidad.
Puedo confirmar que el producto que muestro en fotografías solo cuenta con audio y subtítulos en inglés, por lo cual creo debe ser un dato importante a considerar al momento de su compra.
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DannoReplicant
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente producto
Reviewed in Mexico on August 11, 2017
Bluray de la cinta Re-Animator del director Stuart Gordon editado por la compañía ARROW VIDEO, el cual incluye dos cortes de la misma ('unrated version' e 'integral version') la cual viene cada una en su propio disco contenido en un slipcover de cartón duro, con entrevistas, audio de comentarios con el director y elenco, ademas de materia extra con documentales de la realización de la cinta y el cine inspirado por la obra literaria de H. P. Lovecraft. Todo contenido en un slipcover de carton duro acompañado ademas de tarjetas postales con imágenes de la película y una edición del cómic editado en 1991 de la película en su totalidad.
Puedo confirmar que el producto que muestro en fotografías solo cuenta con audio y subtítulos en inglés, por lo cual creo debe ser un dato importante a considerar al momento de su compra.
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clarkguébeul38
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent
Reviewed in France on December 14, 2018
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Le film a très bien vieilli. Il est présenté dans ses 2 versions ( non censurées ), c'est du cinéma grand guignol de très bonne facture. L'image est satisfaisante attention il n'y a que la VO et sous titres en anglais.
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ナカヤマ
5.0 out of 5 stars 満足
Reviewed in Japan on March 12, 2024
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素晴らしい👍
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