Reanimator millennium edition

Very gory, very satirical, great directing and a superb cast round out a great horror film with a different presentation than the norm. If you are a Jeffrey Combs fan and have not scene Re-Animator then what are you waiting for? Go buy this now!! The Millennium Edition is the best version of the film providing unrated uncut version of the film with great extras including commentary with the cast that provides good insights to the development process.

It's a shame that a limited number were produced but it is well worth the price to pay online. This gruesome yet often funny tale of Dr. Herbest West's successful efforts at tissue re-animation is well worth a watch for lovers of other horror-comedy fare like Evil Dead 2, Zombieland, and American Werewolf in London.

This version includes a few deleted or extended scenes, included one with the lovely Barbara Crampton that her fans will love. Verified purchase: Yes Condition: Pre-owned. A medical student helps a mad scientist who discovers a way of bringing back the dead.

This is definitely one of horror's best and Jeffrey's great as Herbert West. This 2-disc set has good picture and sound plus cool extras. Get this. Skip to main content. About this product. New other. The Movie I have to assume you've never seen this movie if you're reading this part of the review, so first let me say that I am so jealous! The first time watching Re-Animator is sort of like your first kiss, or your first car, or your first Well, maybe it's not that good.

Still, this movie spikes the gore scale, is wildly inventive, funny, and best of all, well acted yes, good acting in a gory horror movie! The story is very, very loosely based on a short story by horror writer H.

Lovecraft, and it follows the exploits of one Herbert West, doctor, student, and scientists. He and his mentor developed a serum that gives life to dead tissue.

After leaving a university in Zurich in disgrace because his mentor was a reanimated fiend, he has taken up residence at Miskatonic University, moved in with a fellow medical student who is dating the dean's daughter, and resumed his macabre experiments. If horror films have taught us nothing else, we do know that experiments with the dead always lead to trouble, and that holds true in Re-Animator.

Naturally, West will reanimate some dead bodies, they'll go haywire, his medical school room mate will get involved and things will get even worse. Add in a psycho professor, an attractive co-ed and a morgue and the result is a gloriously deranged horror film filled with pretty impressive special effects for The script is very clever, funny and tightly written, and manages to avoid almost every horror movie cliche.

The role of Herbert West is brilliantly portrayed by Jeffrey Combs, who horror movie fans may know best from his quite deranged role in The Frighteners. The rest of the cast is rounded out by a bunch of actors who's names you won't recognize and who's faces will seem familiar but you can't quite place.

The obscurity of actors like Bruce Abbot, Barbara Crampton and David Gale is unfortunate, because all of them are actually pretty good. I don't want to give too much away because this movie is really so much fun to watch for the first time. If you like gory horror movies, you will love Re-Animator. If you don't, you can come to my house and reanimate me. The Video Elite Entertainment released a version of Re-Animator in that had a pretty spectacular transfer for the time.

The transfer on the Millennium edition is the same one, and while it still very, very good, new compression techniques and discs like the SuperBit series have lessened the impact of the transfer.

Still, there is virtually no compression artifacts and the film looks stunning in an anamorphic presentation. Since this disc has virtually every extra under the sun thrown in, it is also enhanced for the lucky bastiches who have 16x9 TVs. The Audio The disc includes the Dolby Digital Mono sound track that was on Elite's first release, which was good, but for the Millennium edition, it goes so, so much farther.

First, you get a brand spankin' new DTS5. On one of the many extras two commentaries, much archival material, Living Bread included on this "Millennium Edition" DVD, one team member recalls chipping through the ice in the office toilet each day in order to make use of it. While it only adds a few elements to an already excellent version made available during the early days of DVD, the Millennium Edition supersedes all other versions currently on the market, all the more reason to avoid one of the cheaply produced public-domain editions.

If Night Of The Living Dead still represents an apex of low-budget chills, its status as a gore champion has long since been superseded. Among those pouring out buckets of blood: Re-Animator , which retrieved the idea of reviving the dead from Romero's free-floating metaphor back to the realm of mad science.

Loosely adapting a series of H. Lovecraft stories, in director Stuart Gordon made what might best be described as a comedic look at body horror. A first-time director with roots in avant-garde theater, Gordon gleefully pushes the edges with Re-Animator , courting infamy with one scene after another.