A medical student (Jeffrey Combs) brings his headless professor back from the dead with a special serum.
Release Date: October 18th, 2002
DVD Release Date: January 30th, 2001
Not Yet Rated |1 hr 26 min
Plot SummaryA medical student (Jeffrey Combs) brings his headless professor back from the dead with a special serum.
Cast: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, Robert Sampson, Gerry Black, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Peter Kent
Director: Stuart Gordon
Genres: Horror , Dark comedy
Production Co: Empire Pictures
The script is very clever, funny and tightly written, and manages to avoid almost every horror movie cliche. show more
One of the pleasures of the movies, however, is to find a movie that chooses a disreputable genre and then tries with all its might to transcend the genre, to go over the top into some kind of artistic vision, however weird. Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator is a pleasure like that, a frankly gory horror movie that finds a rhythm and a style that make it work in a cockeyed, offbeat sort of way. show more
It is almost as though these filmmakers are afraid they’ll never get the chance to make another one, and Re-Animator doesn’t hesitate in being an almost operatic, larger than life comedy of splatter. While it paints with a big (red) brush, it is never boring. show more
