Coming back from the dead never looked so good! Then again, when it comes to Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator, it’s never really gone anywhere. Forty years since its release, the cult classic splatter ...

Whenever I think of Stuart Gordon's "Re-animator," I think of severed heads. Dr. Hill and his noggin made a distinct impression on me the very first time I watched the film. There are so many things ...

Campy excess is the name of the game in Stuart Gordon’s celebrated 1985 cult hit Re-Animator. His comedy-horror movie has all the hallmarks of a schlocky zombie movie, with tawdry special effects and ...

Policemen break into the office of University of Zurich professor Dr. Hans Gruber (Al Berry, different Hans Gruber), where it appears that student Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is attacking Gruber.

Long before Blumhouse, A24, and Jordan Peele, there was Stuart Gordon. The experimental theater director turned cult horror filmmaker made more than 20 films between 1985 and 2007. Many of them were ...

Yet the most famous take on Lovecraft’s work will perhaps always remain the gloriously unhinged splatterfest in which the final victim is almost orally violated by a disembodied head. Unsurprisingly, ...

The actress reflects on her early role in Stuart Gordon's horror classic on the occasion of a beautiful new 4K restoration. “Re-Animator” was something special indeed, a bold and original film that ...

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In 1985, a little horror-comedy called Re-Animator made over $2 million on a budget of $900,000, kick-starting the careers of director Stuart Gordon and now-omnipresent character actor Jeffrey Combs, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Re-Animator” was something special indeed, a bold and original film that not only ignored the boundaries of good taste but ...