Grimmfest 2018 - Re-Animator

Director: Stuart Gordon

Cast: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, Robert Sampson, David Gale

Synopsis: A medical student and his girlfriend become involved in a bizarre experiment into reanimating the dead...

Grimmfest Say: Stuart Gordon's baroque, blackly comic re-imagining of H.P.Lovecraft's bizarro pulp novella Frankenstein, Herbert West, Reanimator, is rightly acknowledged as a genre classic. The source material was weird and wild enough to begin with, but Gordon amps it up into ghoulish, gory farce, filled with outrageous and perverse scenes and characters, and confrontational and controversial content, that has attracted the censor's scissors more than once. But fear not folks, this is the original unrated version of this corpse-strewn cult comedy classic, which made stars of both Jeffrey Combs and Grimmfest 2018's guest of honour Barbara Crampton – who will introduce the screening.

What I'm expecting: Gore, buckets and buckets of 1980s, practical effect style gore!

Honestly, this is a film with which I'm quite familiar, so I kind of know what to expect here: however, it has been many years since I last watched it, so my memory is hazy at best. Also, I'm not sure if I've ever seen the 'unrated' version being shown at Grimmfest this year.

I'm very much looking forward to re-discovering this comedic, campy cult classic, and will be sure to upload my thoughts on the film, 33-years on.