Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.
- experiment
- insanity
- overdose
- black humor
- mad scientist
- decapitation
- reanimation
- laboratory
- severed head
- hospital
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Robert Sampson — Dean Alan Halsey
- Carolyn Purdy-Gordon — Dr. Harrod
- Peter Kent — Melvin the Re-Animated
- Ian Patrick Williams — Swiss Professor
- Bunny Summers — Swiss Woman Doctor
- Al Berry — Dr. Gruber
- Barbara Pieters — Nurse
- Annyce Holzman — E-R Patient Corpse
- Velvet Debois — Slit Wrist Girl Corpse
- Robert Holcomb — Motorcycle Accident Corpse
- Mike Filloon — Bullet Wound to Face Corpse
- Directed
- Stuart Gordon
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 1,721 ratings
- Studio
- Empire Pictures
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1985 · You’re hereRe-Animator
Where it starts.
Bride of Re-Animator
1990
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
