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Re-Animator
Herbert West has a good head on his shoulders...and another one on his desk.
Cast
Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, Robert Sampson
#44 in the SIFS list
Watch history
January 31, 2018
Pre-screening hints
- Special effects department went through 25 gallons of fake blood for the shoot
- the music composer fronted $1,500 of his own money to complete the music due to time overruns on budget
- the opening theme borrows heavily from Hitchcock’s Psycho
- during a resuscitation scene, the actress was a dildo enthusiast and was known to hide dildos with fake corpses on set
- lead actors visited an insane asylum and morgue as preparation for the film
- opening credits sequence pays visual homage to Hitchcock’s Vertigo
- a set was so poorly constructed that a wall kept collapsing during filming and had to be re shot several times. The flimsy construction is obvious in the scene
- has a 94% Rotten Tomato ranking