RE-ANIMATOR SYNOPSIS:

After an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.

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Re-Animator returns in 4K! This cult classic blends horror and dark humor as Herbert West's serum brings the dead back with shocking results. In celebration of its 40th anniversary, Re-Animator returns in a stunning 4K restoration, bringing new life to this horror classic. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's twisted tale, the film follows Herbert West, a brilliant yet unhinged medical student who creates a serum capable of reanimating the dead--with horrifying consequences. Blending grotesque horror and dark humor, Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator shocked audiences and became an instant cult classic upon its release in 1985. This vivid 4K edition captures every gory detail of West's obsession, inviting fans old and new to experience the film's boundary-pushing terror like never before.

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SPECIAL FEATURES ​

• NEWLY PRODUCED FEATURES

  • Re-Animator at 40: A Conversation with Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, and Brian Yuzna 

  • Piece By Piece: Cutting Re-Animator – A New Interview with Editor Lee Percy

  • The Horror of It All: The Legacy and Impact of Re-Animator

  • I Give Life: A Look Back at Re-Animator: The Musical

  • Suzie Sorority and the Good College Boy: An Interview with Carolyn Purdy-Gordon

  • Re-Animating a Horror Classic: The 4K Restoration of Re-Animator

  • The Organic Theater Company of Chicago: A 1977 documentary featuring Stuart Gordon

  • New 40th anniversary 4K UHD trailer

• PREVIOUSLY RELEASED FEATURES

  • Integral Version (105 mins)

  • Isolated Score

  • Audio commentary with director Stuart Gordon and actors Graham Skipper and Jesse Merlin of Re-Animator: The Musical 

  • Audio commentary with Stuart Gordon

  • Audio commentary with producer Brian Yuzna, actors Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Bruce Abbott, and Robert Sampson 

  • Re-Animator: Resurrectus - Feature-length documentary on the making of the film featuring extensive interviews with cast and crew

  • Interviews with director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna, writer Dennis Paoli, composer Richard Band and former Fangoria editor Tony Timpone

  • Music discussion with composer Richard Band

  • The Catastrophe of Success: Stuart Gordon and The Organic Theater - Director Stuart Gordon discusses his early theater roots and his continued commitment to the stage 

  • Theater of Blood - Re-Animator: The Musical lyricist Mark Nutter on adapting the cult classic for musical theater 

  • Extended scenes 

  • Deleted scene 

  • Trailer & TV Spots

  • Still Gallery

  • Barbara Crampton In Conversation: The Re-Animator star sits down with journalist Alan Jones for this career-spanning 2015 interview 

  • A Guide to Lovecraft Cinema: Chris Lackey, host of the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast, provides a comprehensive look at the many cinematic incarnations of Lovecraft's work. 

  • Doug Bradley's Spinechillers: Herbert West, Re-Animator actor Jeffrey Combs reads H.P. Lovecraft's original classic story