Came early. Great shape. Original timing. Separate DV...D loaded with special features...love those special features!!!! Been looking for it for a long time.
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I'm a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft and I was intereste...d in seeing some of his stories put to film. I read some reviews of film adaptations of his works and Re-Animator almost always came out with good ratings. It's a classic B-rated horror movie that doesn't take itself too seriously. Enjoyable with some touches of morbid humor and very gory, certainly not for the squeamish (one scene in particular is pretty sickening). The Millenium edition is packed with all sorts of extras. A must for fans of Evil Dead.
H. P. Lovecraft, as a writer, is an acquired taste. ...His writing stule is often dull, though occasionally he wrote stories with real impact. His best fiction, as a rule, has translated into mediocre (at best) films. Conversely, his dullest stories are often transformed into really entertaining motion pictures. Re-Animator is one of this latter type of film. The short story, "Herbert West -- The Re-Animator," is, pardon the pun, relatively lifeless, but the film it was the basis for is really outstanding. As a rule, Lovecraft was humorless; this film if full of laughs, though of the dark variety. Jeffrey Combs was born to play Herbert West, whose obsession about perfecting a solution that would revitalize dead tissue is a central theme of the film. Placing him in an academic research environment, including having an adversary who wishes to steal credit for West's work, makes it all the more enjoyable. This is hardly a family film (save perhaps for the Addams Family), but it is most certainly entertaining to grownups. A new viewer ought to prepare him or herself to see more than a little gore and violence. Worth repeat viewings, which, of course, is the only rfeason to buy a copy.
I'd agree that Lovecraft's work varies in quality....the... original short story that this moved is based on is NOT one of his better works... That being said, the Re-Animator is a visual treat, with an over-the-top, grisly humor that makes the picture. Re-Animator, and its sequel Bride of... are both excellent pictures, but the remaining films in the series have been unimpressive (although I see another movie in the works for 2010, House of Reanimator...). The scene with the decapitated head near the end of the movie must be seen to be believed.... Jeff McIntosh
It was ahead of its time!
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