Additional information for Re-Animator, which has a domestic theatrical release set for October 18, 1985. The film is being distributed by Anchor Bay and has not yet been rated. Re-Animator has a total running time of 95 minutes.
MA
Australia
-12
France
VM14
Italy
18
Norway
15
Sweden
18
UK
Unrated
USA
(Banned)
Iceland
BPjM Restricted
Germany
K-18
Finland
Not Rated
West Germany
(Banned)
Singapore
R
Canada
16
Belgium
18
South Korea
R16
New Zealand
95min
86min
95min
Re-Animator
Brazil
Re-Animator
France
Re-Animator
Mexico
Re-Animator
Spain
Ζωντανός-Νεκρός
Greece
A Hora dos Mortos Vivos
Brazil
Der Re-Animator
West Germany
Le réanimateur
Canada
O Soro Maléfico
Portugal
Reanimátor
Hungary
Reanimator
Serbia
Zontanos-nekros
Greece
October , 1985
Spain
October 18, 1985
USA
January 16, 1986
Spain
March 12, 1986
France
May 23, 1986
Ireland
June 26, 1986
Australia
September 10, 1987
Brazil
October 31, 1988
West Germany
April 11, 2002
Netherlands
October 26, 2003
Finland
November 01, 2003
Finland
April , 2007
Finland
September 26, 2009
Greece
July , 2010
Canada
November 17, 2012
Greece
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A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
At a medical school in Zurich, Switzerland, a dean is called in to investigate a disturbance in one of the labs. When he enters with a policeman and nurse they find one of the school's professors, Gruber, screaming in agony and a med student, Herbert West, with him. Gruber's skin has turned purple and his eyes bulge until they explode, spewing blood. The stricken man falls dead and the dean asks if West had killed the doctor to which West replies "No, I gave him life!"West arrives at Miskatonic University in New England in order to further his studies. He rents a room from medical student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) and converts the house's basement into his own personal laboratory. There is an instant animosity between West and faculty member Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale). West declares that Hill stole the theory of brain death from West's late mentor, Dr. Gruber. Hill vows that West will never get a passing grade in his class.Dan has been carrying on a clandestine love affair with the daughter, Barbara, of Miskatonic's Medical schoolDan discovers that West has re-animated his dead cat, Rufus, with a glowing "reagent." West recruits Dan as his partner in research to defeat death. Dan's fiancee Megan dislikes West, especially after discovering Rufus re-animated in a state of dismemberment.Hill manages to turn Dr. Halsey, the school's dean and Megan's father, against both West and Dan. Barred from the school, West and Dan sneak into the morgue to test the reagent on a human subject in an attempt to salvage their medical careers. The corpse revives and goes on a rampage, attacking the duo. Halsey stumbles upon the scene originally to force them out of the morgue for trespassing and, despite attempts by both West and Dan to save him, is killed by the re-animated corpse. Armed with a bone saw, West dispatches the reanimated cadaver. Unfazed by the violence and excited at the prospect of working with a freshly dead specimen, West injects Halsey with the reagent. Halsey returns to life, but in a zombie-like state.Hill discovers West's work and gains guardianship over Halsey, whom he puts in a padded cell adjacent to his office. Dan and Megan break into Hill's office where they find evidence that Hill is obsessed with Megan and has lobotomized her father. Hill has gone to confront West in his basement lab and threatens to blackmail him to continue his research so that Hill can take credit for West's reagent. While Hill is distracted, West hits then decapitates Hill with a shovel. Overcome with curiosity, West re-animates both Hill's head and body. While West is questioning Hill's head and taking notes, Hill's body knocks him unconscious. The body carries the head and steals West's reagent, returning to Hill's office. Exercising mind control over Halsey, Hill sends him out to kidnap Megan from Dan.West and Dan track Halsey to the morgue, where they find Hill's body holding his head in a compromising position over a restrained Megan. West distracts Hill while Dan frees Megan. Hill reveals that he has re-animated and lobotomized several corpses from the morgue to do his bidding. However, Megan manages to get through to her father, who fights off the other corpses long enough for Dan and Megan to escape. In the ensuing chaos, Halsey is torn to pieces by the corpses after he destroys Hill's head and West injects Hill's body with what he believes is a lethal overdose of the reagent which began to destroy Hill's body. Hill's body mutates horribly and attacks West, who screams out to Dan to save his work as he continues fighting. He is dragged toward the monstrosity, his fate unrevealed.Dan retrieves the satchel containing West's reagent. As Dan and Megan run from the morgue, one of the re-animated corpses attacks and kills Megan. Dan takes her to the hospital emergency room and tries in vain to revive her. In despair, he injects her with reagent. Just after the scene fades to black, Megan screams, implying that her re-animation has backfired.
Stuart Gordon
Director(s)
H.P. Lovecraft
Dennis Paoli
William Norris
Stuart Gordon
Writer(s)
Michael Avery
executive producer
Charles Band
executive producer
Bruce William Curtis
executive producer
Bob Greenberg
associate producer
Charles Donald Storey
associate producer
Brian Yuzna
producer
Producer(s)
Richard Band
Composer(s)
Herbert West
Jeffrey Combs
Dan Cain
Bruce Abbott
Megan Halsey
Barbara Crampton
Dr. Carl Hill
David Gale
Dean Halsey
Robert Sampson
Mace
Gerry Black
Dr. Harrod
Carolyn Purdy-Gordon
Melvin the Re-Animated
Peter Kent
Nurse
Barbara Pieters
Swiss Professor
Ian Patrick Williams
Swiss Woman Doctor
Bunny Summers
Dr. Gruber
Al Berry
Swiss Policeman #1
Derek Pendleton
Swiss Policeman #2
Gene Scherer
Psycho Ward Guard #1
James Ellis
Psycho Ward Guard #2
James Earl Cathay
E-R Patient Corpse
Annyce Holzman
Slit Wrist Girl Corpse
Velvet Debois
Failed Operation Corpse
Lawrence Lowe
Motorcycle Accident Corpse
Robert Holcomb
Bullet Wound to Face Corpse
Mike Filloon
One Arm Man Corpse
Greg Reid
Tall Skinny Guy Corpse
Jack Draheim
Bald O-R Corpse
Robert Pitzele
Bald Doctor (uncredited)
Kim Deitch
Hospital Patient (uncredited)
Greg Robbins
Director(s)
Dennis Paoli
William Norris
Stuart Gordon
Writer(s)
executive producer
Charles Band
executive producer
Bruce William Curtis
executive producer
Bob Greenberg
associate producer
Charles Donald Storey
associate producer
Brian Yuzna
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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