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TITLE: Re-Animator DIRECTOR: Stuart Gordon YEAR: 1985 COUNTRY: USA DURATION: 86 mins STARRING: Jeffrey Combs (Herbert West), Bruce Abbott (Dan Cain), Barbara Crampton (Megan Halsey), David Gale (Doctor Carl Hill), Robert Sampson (Dean Alan Halsey) THIS FILM CONTAINS DISTURBING SCENES OFVIOLENCE AND IS SUITABLE ONLY FOR ADULTS & FREAKS Death is just the beginning... REVIEWED BY: Body Snatcher A MEDICAL STUDENT makes a serum to reanimate corpses, leaving a trail of carnage and destruction in his wake. From the moment the eyes pop during Reanimator's opening sequence you know you're in for something special, and that feeling continues throughout every minute of this classic slice of Eighties blood-letting. Herbert West is the man responsible for the mayhem, at first setting up bizarre experiments on his room-mate's cat (by killing it, then bringing it back to life in a memorable slapstick moment), then moving on to kill and revive his room-mate's father-in-law! West's lecturer, Doctor Carl Hill (superbly played by the late David Gale), also runs foul of West's shenanigans, at first being decapitated with a shovel, then reanimated with a shot of the glowing green serum. Hill then turns on West, stealing his reanimation kit and creating an army of lobotomized zombies to do his bidding. Special mention has to go to scream queen Barbara Crampton, for services beyond the pale. Not only does she give an excellent performance as Megan Halsey, but her scenes with Dr. Hill's severed head are etched in the annals of horror history as some of the most perversely funny ever filmed. LINK: Sick Films gallery images BUY: Uncut DVD from Amazon.co.uk BUY: Uncut DVD from Amazon.com BUY: Uncut DVD from Empire DVD LINK: IMDb listing Main Menu Top of page

FILM: SICK: Daring, fun and full of giblets. Barbara Crampton gets full marks for being a "good sport". Isn't that music a direct lift of Psycho though? FILM: SICK: I giggled my way through the entire film. Still great, blood-drenched fun, and surprisingly well acted. Lovely. FILM: SICK: Monumentally over the top, funny, gory and twisted - a supreme example of mid-Eighties American horror. FILM: SICK: Some of the FX are a bit dated now. That said: Re-Animator is still a superb splatter movie well worth tracking down. FILM: SICK: Not a bad adaptation of Lovecraft's short story, and the effects still stand up surprisingly well in spite of their age. Coombs is great as Herbert West, a role he was to reprise a number of times in the various sequels. Cool!