Strikes a wonderful balance between horror and comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 5, 2024

A deliciously goopy romp featuring a pitch perfect performance by Jeffrey Combs. Balances its ick factor with great FX and hearty laughs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2024

The picture is close to being a silly ghoulie classic -- the bloodier it gets, the funnier it is. This is the same blood that flows through the Hammer horror movies; it’s theatre-of-the-absurd blood, slapstick blood.

| Sep 13, 2023

A hilariously gross 1985 indie classic...

| Nov 2, 2021

It's no match for The Evil Dead, but as far as tongue-in-bloody-cheek gorefests go, this update of the H.P. Lovecraft tale is a lot of fun, and it easily earns its cult status.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2021

Cult 80's mad scientist sci-fi-horror-comedy based on the novella Herbert West-Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2021

This original landmark is a refreshing, not-to-be-missed take on a classic tale of science gone too far.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 7, 2020

Most genre filmmakers go their whole careers without making something have as delirious and dazzling as Stuart Gordon did right in his debut.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 8, 2020

The film is all kinds of ridiculous, but if you like campy horror...

| Jan 29, 2019

With its combination of gross-out horror, ridiculous comedy, over the top scenes, and subtle undercurrents, Re-Animator manages to be many things at once.

| Nov 8, 2018

What comes out the other side is pure, disreputable zombie fun.

| Nov 2, 2018

Re-Animator is a cult classic for good reason. Whatever it lacks in the scares, it greatly makes up for in weirdness and humor. It's a fun story with a bizarre cast of characters.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Nov 2, 2018

Favours gore, fun and laughs over any serious contemplation of the underlying themes, and it's never anything less than shlockily entertaining.

| Jul 16, 2018

It's remarkable that, over 30 years since its release, Re-Animator still stands as the best film-adaptation of any H.P. Lovecraft story to date.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 26, 2018

An all-time classic of the horror world, slapping an added level of gore and dark humour to the already bloodstained landscape of 1980s horror.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 11, 2018

A bona fide classic of '80s horror, and one of the funniest splatter-comedies of all time.

| Oct 18, 2017

Full of black humor and startling shocks, the feature film debut of experimental theater director Gordon is arguably his best and easily his most fun (a kinky, sick sort of fun, mind you) ...

| Nov 18, 2016

A classic ground-breaking Grand Guignol horror picture.

| Original Score: B | Oct 10, 2015

Re-Animator is splatter heaven. Based on the sci-fi novel by H.P. Lovecraft, Re-Animator's gore is exceeded only by its wit.

| Sep 28, 2015

To call "Re-Animator" campy and leave it at that seems a knee-jerk reaction to discredit, or disregard, the clear skill behind an excellent American horror movie. Even at its most outrageous, it's controlled by a steady, confident hand with a plan.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2015