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Re-Animator
1985
· Movie
· 84 min
B
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1484
- IMDb #1992
- Rotten Tomatoes #1097
- Metacritic #1245
- Letterboxd #1234
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1238
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1459
- Metacritic Critics #1231
- Metacritic Audience #1448
- Criticker #901
- Douban #1277
- Kinopoisk #2528
- AlloCiné #2720
- Trakt #1849
Every rating
59–90
out of 100
A dedicated medical student takes in a new roommate who has developed a glowing green serum with the ability to re-animate dead tissue. Their experiments quickly spiral out of control, creating violent, re-animated corpses. The university dean becomes suspicious, and the duo must contain their creations while their mentor seeks to steal the formula for himself.
Details
- Director
- Stuart Gordon
- Writers
- Dennis Paoli, H.P. Lovecraft, Stuart Gordon, William Norris
- Based on
- Herbert West—Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft
- Studio
- Empire Pictures
- Released
- 18 October 1985
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, German
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $900.0K
- Box office
- $2.0M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award 1985 | Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award | Winner |
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1 awards — Re-Animator
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Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award
1 nomination, 1 won
| Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award | Winner |