Re-Animator: HP Lovecraft Month: Deusdaecon Reviews 

“I gave him life. And then I gave him death. Although that part was an accident.”

My favorite part of the movie was the cat reanimation scene, or rather Combs's line of "Do you agree the cat is dead?" picks it up and drops it before showing him.

I viewed the ending of this similar to pet semetery, he knew what was going to happen but he was so grief stricken he didnt care, he convinced himself it would be different. I thought it was a pretty good ending all things considered. Also i assumed that West wanted to go to that university not to take classes but rather to get access to fresh bodies for his research.

You do miss some points, West cleary choose the school for two reasons. To proof he is better then Hill , that Hill is just a thief and a cheat. And to get fresh bodies. He also wins over Cain , who is a student but cleary "hates" dead. So ofcourse Cain wants to find a "cure" for dead. West sees the agressive behavior of the death not as a fault but a learning experience, he wants to learn to improve . That happens in the third one, it's not his purposes to make agressive wild creatures, but to overcome dead, to create true immortalty without loosing the mind.

I love jeffery combs!! Loved him in everything he has been in especially as an Andorian and as West. His acting is always the perfect level of ham, I don’t know how he does it

Jeffrey Combs has the best voice ever. He should do audio books.

God, I missed my opportunity for an autograph from Jeffrey Combs at Horrorcon. Now that I'm more familiar with the Re-Animator series and From Beyond, I hate myself for not talking with him.

Would love to see you do a review of 1992 Braindead (or Dead Alive)

The Florida thrash metal band Rigor Mortis has a great track called Re-Animator on their first album, based on this film. The track "Demons," based on another great 80s horror film, is on the same LP.

This film was interesting as I saw it as not just a Frankenstein-esque film with sprinklings of other films, but also as one of addiction/obsession in a way. West is so obsessed with his work that even after being directly/indirectly related to the deaths of two people the first thing he thinks is "the stars are aligned for me, I get one obstacle out of the way and it becomes an instant opportunity." The addiction comes in in a deleted scene where he injects himself with some of his reanimation serum because it keeps him mentally alert and awake. And he is clearly an addict to it as when he begins to lose his high, he starts to stutter then he being shivering and shaking so bad that he needs Cain to administer the injection. His obsession has become his addiction. Same with Hill and his disturbing obsession with Hallsey's daughter. As to why Hill is the "Alpha" zombie, he was shown to be very powerful at suggestion, in that he plants the idea into Hallsey that he is just using his relationship with Megan to get the scholarship(in a deleted scene), and then again at staring West down into complying with giving him his notes. Plus, Hallsey was smashed around the morgue by the corpse so besides his broken neck his brain was probably scrambled around to prevent proper thought

I'm starting to wonder if movie Herbert was actually a successful reanimation. It would explain why he gives the reagent so much credit, and why he sees being brought back as a gift. It would also explain why he seems so distant and out of touch. And also why he's so hard to kill.

Just re watched the first one today (I'm gonna grab them all on blu ray so I'm back here again - yay [it's one of my favourite review series you've done]) and this just makes me want to hear you read Herbert West: Re-Animator for a re-animated 😉😉 Lovecraft Month

This movie is inline with the original story, a dark comedy "if only the body was just a little fresher" in the original story the unnamed narrator became west's best friend and assistant quite quickly

You kind of criticized the nudity and then immediately explained its effectiveness by exposing the small-mindedness of Hill. But honestly, Barbara Crampton, nude, is a work of art in herself. This is a low-budget horror film...and brilliant in what it accomplished.

Lovecraft wrote some of the most interesting horror books ever. Even creating an entire style of horror. A brilliant man, regardless of how racist he actually was.

I took it as hills head was a separate unit, that all the autonomic functions that would have been in the body connected to the brain.. is now in the brain alone.. like hill doesnt need to control his body anymore, and all his autonomic functions he can control. the amount of serum in a small place could also have an effect

There is a subplot that is revealed in the deleted scenes, also in the R rated cut, where it's revealed that Hill can hypnotize people. He was behind the Dean expelling Dan, also helps explain how he controls the reanimated.

I have to disagree with Deusdaecon on this movie , I think it's a quality , zany , black comedy with horror elements , a rather tricky combination to pull off . There is no other movie that really pulls it off like this one . The tone is all over the place and that is the point of it's design , it's depth is about age and how the old are unwilling to bend and how the young are too naive learn . No character has any discipline and neither does the script which makes it wonderful honestly . It just runs and descends into a cacophony of madness of science and sex which is funny as fuck .

Instead of your suggested ending, I think it would be a better message if he tried to resuscitates his wife for a short time, but then stops BEFORE the nurse has to tell him to, showing he's learned when it's time to let it go.

The description of that theme was spot on my man! Spot on!

I agree with you on the ending. I was let down that they made Cain use the serum instead of the defibrillator to bring back Megan for three reasons. 1) It would have brought the story full circle. 2) Like you said, his character was smarter than that and more caring. 3) And, it would have put Dr. Harrod in her place.

Apparently why Hill is different and can control the other zombies is that in one version of the script or in deleted scenes it is shown he has been training to develop and strengthen psychic abilities, I'm not sure if they actually made those scenes and got cut or they wrote those scenes and decided not to film them

Soundtrack by Richard Band, brother of Charles Band. He also did the music for Puppet Master and most of Full Moon Productions

Nice review. Liked it. I have to say all thouse nonsence creazy ideas of characters in the movie is that what made me like the film and lough so much.

Regarding the similarities to Pet Semetary: Pet Semetary has more to do with grief and superstition, as well as While ReAnimator is more about the unknown and Herbert West's own neurosis and "alternative" ethos I believe the similarities with Pet Semetary are drawn due to both having a cat scene, but if you dig a bit deaper, you can see Dr. West's indifference to reanimation versus Dr. Creed's immense guilt he feels about the whole thing

Every time I watch West in this film I here Ratchet from Transformers Prime

I like how West removes the notes before putting Hills head on the spike

Oh, thank you! I thought I was the only one unimpressed by this film.

Still one of my favorite horror movies ever. Idc if the plot makes sense it a fun movie imo because of how" bad " the plot is. Still need to see Bride of Re-Animator.

2:28 He actually would do the score Psycho remake. Granted, it sounds almost exactly the same to the original most likely because Gus Van Sant told him to do it that way.

Jeff was really great in this movie and so is the soundtrack.

I love Jeffrey Combs as both an actor and voice actor. On the latter I love how he voices the Autobot medic, Ratchet. So naturally when I re-watched this film while I saw Transformers Prime I said "Ratchet became human and lost his mind" lol

Cain using the serum at the end is fitting, as he's been drawn in line with West (which mirrored West's relationship with Gruber from the start). It makes sense that in a moment of desperation he might damn the consequences and take the chance that the serum might work at least close enough to properly for once. But more than that, he's seen the serum seemingly work with Hill. Hill might have been insane, but he wasn't mindless. And Hill was insane before he was killed. Megan also had a rather less destructive death. It was a bad idea that was almost guaranteed to give a painfully bad result, but it was a fitting result for the state the character had reached.

11:00 that guy is Arnold Schwarzenegger stunt double

18:35 on the contrary this 1 scene fueled Joanna Angels tribute Re-Penetrator. So thanks Re-Animator????

Dr. Gruber... Okay, this is now connected to Die Hard in my head canon. 8) As for the movie... it's okay. Fun, but not something I'm going to be watching over and over. The story wasn't exactly one of Lovecraft's best, either, so I guess it works in that sense.

The thing that really bothers me is the lack of closure. What happened to all the reanimated bodies? They don't answer that in the sequel, I think. So like, are they just running around Arkham?

"EYE POPPING" opening

A movie I think you would like (which also stars Jeffery Combs) is Would You Rather?, an IFC original film (that’s currently up on Netflix). I won’t say anything else.

the score was done as a bit of an homage to the psycho score

I love this movie

Re animator is a top movie, funny asf

You go to school and not learn anything to get papers that make other people, who will always assume you know nothing, believe you DO know SOMETHING, which after some time at school, you probably won`t..

and to think Stuart Gordon went on to make dolls after this.

Fyi there's a Color out of space movie now

Wait... Doctor Hill looks and sounds familiar. Was he in... that live action Guyver movie?

As for my guess on why Hill is more cognitive... maybe it's because he had a dose for his head so his brain got a huge amount of it instead of it being spread around his body? so all that is really needed is an injection for the body and one for the brain directly as it needs more of the juice to keep it alive. I mean that doesn't properly explain a body with no brain that can move on its own and does what its head says... but it's the best I got

So there is a new movie called Overlord, and is really close to the story. Happens during WW2.

nice review x

17:14 - MST3K fans everywhere are celebrating and laughing like crazy. Finally, a fitting husband for Jan-In-The-Pan!

I guess I'm a little confused. I can never distinguish between lovecraft horror and gothic horror. Doesn't this seem to fit more into the latter...the hubristic Frankenstein like scientist, the sociopath villain whose consumed with lust, greed, pride... that scene where the father zombie is being commanded to offer up his daughter to be raped seems like a dark Edgar Allen Poe scene. I thought lovecraft wasn't interested in human evil because it's all about the terrifying infinite cosmos.

If anyone is interested in the story, they should read the original HP Lovecraft version. While the movie was ok, the original for me was far superior. There is a good deal of progression in how things move and how West becomes more and more obsessed with trying to raise the dead and what he is willing to do. But the ending of the story though is where I felt it went wrong. With the idea of a headless dead body who is apparently also able to control other dead bodies seemly coming out of nowhere. Also you see a lot of dedication by Herbert West and is nameless assistant trying to bring back the dead and it's pretty interesting. Plus you get to enjoy when the dead bodies going on killing sprees. It's actually pretty fun.

Eye popping opening…. Lol

I love you :).

@22:35 "That's entertainment!" LOL

Whats the song with the montage of HP Lovecraft movies? After the video intro

Yeah this movie ended terribly

what the name of the music that plays during the clip show at the beginning

ok why the Black bar... its not like horror movie review are considered ad friendly territory. also i am guessing most of your viewers will be of a higher age than 18. love your reviews

Is the old woman at the beginning here the same actress as the old woman in From Beyond?

It's an eye-popping opener...because the dude's eyes literally pop. Pretty ballsy of Yuzna.

I noticed that you have MG Gunpla on the desk next to you. Is one of them and HG Kit?

We're H.P's stories modern or were they old timey

Hill gets really quite fucked up, indeed.

first. when will you do the final 2 hannibal reviews?

You enjoy these movies? Right?

Are you gonna do the re animator sequels?

I'm sure this movie set ol' HPL spinning in his grave. It was hilariously funny, but is was not Lovecraft. Dreams in the Witch House, also Gordon and Yuzna, was a superior adaptation and even that was a grotesque abomination.

I'm too much a Lovecraft snob... these movies are filled with gore and sex, which NOTHING Lovecraft wrote had. He hinted at, and alluded to disgusting things, but never just BLAM in your face described them. Not a fan.

Not at all the point but...Pet Semetary did this sort of story (kane character) better.

What song is that?

Deus, I really like your videos, but you butchered that Zürich pronounciation so bad I almost cried :)