I just got the super deluxe edition of one of the greatest horror movies, Re-Animator! So what do you know, it"s time for a review!
As you might guess from the title, this movie is about...yep, re-animation. In other words, bringing the dead back to life. The story is about a brilliant but very eccentric young college student named Herbert West, who manages to develop a bright green fluid called "re-agent" which, when injected into the brain, re-animates dead bodies. Unfortunately it doesn"t usually re-activate the brain correctly and most subjects become zombies. Herbert refuses to give up his experiments, and the lovely splatterfest ensues. It"s a regular zombie jamboree!
I won"t lie to you, this is not a movie for the squeamish. But for horror fans like I know everyone is, the severed heads and flying brains make this gorefest truly splatteriffic! This version is even unrated, so no good stuff was cut out in favor of such things as decency. Indeed, the gore is a bit over-the-top, making it somewhat humorous at times. Though not on quite the same level as An American Werewolf in London, Re-Animator is similar in a sense. It is not a comedy, it just happens to be a horror movie with a nice sense of humor that adds to the film rather than hinder it. The whole re-animation idea starts out fairly believable, but later things get a little out of hand. It stops being realistic, but it never ceases to be entertaining. And that"s what really matters, I say. Also worth mentioning is the music. It could be unintentional, but I swear the theme music is a remix of the opening theme from the original Psycho.
As far as DVDs go, this "Millennium Edition" I got is great stuff. The whole case is "re-agent" colored, it"s got a whole second disc full of deleted scenes and other goodies, two commentaries, and a beautiful letterboxed THX transfer. I must say, the blood-spewing corpses have never looked better! I give the movie a very zombastic 8 out of 10, and the DVD edition 10 out of 10. The only way the DVD could get any better is if it came with a syringe full of re-agent, so I could re-animate my co-worker Alex Roff. I think his brain died a while back, and it needs to get those juices flowing again!
Brains!!!
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