Special 35mm presentation! A medical student (Jeffrey Combs) brings his headless professor back from the dead with a special serum.
Loosely based on H P Lovecraft's classic horror tale – Herbert West, a dedicated student at a medical college, and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
H.P. Lovecraft and Lucio Fulci did not team up to make the most amazing gore-sex grotesquerie of 1985. But thanks to RE-ANIMATOR, they didn't have to. Feeling like an amalgam of FRANKENSTEIN, THE BEYOND, and REVENGE OF THE NERDS, RE-ANIMATOR is where science meets chaos to produce an hyperactive overdose of gruesome insanity. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a new student at Miskatonic University. He also moonlights as a mad scientist, intent on perfecting a serum that “re-animates” corpses. Soon, everyone wants a piece of the action, including an evil professor and his army of slime-covered deadites. With berserker direction from Stuart Gordon, career-defining roles from horror icons Barbara Crampton and Jeffrey Combs, and a scene of two adults chasing an undead cat in a basement, RE-ANIMATOR isn’t just a masterpiece of the horror genre -- it’s a masterpiece of life.
"Based on the sci-fi novel by H.P. Lovecraft, Re-Animator's gore is exceeded only by its wit." - Washington Post
"It's simply the best, funniest Grand Guignol horror picture to come along in ages." - Los Angeles Times