Re-Animator: The Lovecraft Splatter Comedy That Nails It

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000

There is a shelf in every video shop I ever loved that held the films the big rental chains would not stock, and Re-Animator was the loudest thing on it. The cover promised a severed head and a syringe of glowing green, and for once the cover was telling the truth. Stuart Gordon’s 1985 debut is the film that finally cracked the code on adapting H.P. Lovecraft, which is a code most directors never even locate, because Lovecraft’s horror lives in adjectives and offscreen cosmic dread and refuses to sit still in front of a camera.

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Re-Animator: The Lovecraft Splatter Comedy That Nails It