I’ll never forget the first time Elliott Miller and I saw Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator. We were high school kids, thoroughly vested in playing the Call of Cthulhu RPG, when we saw a newspaper ad (remember those?) for a film based on a H.P. Lovecraft tale so we immediately made plans to hit the theater. We certainly enjoyed the splatter, humor, and nudity filled thrill ride – even though the movie is really only loosely based on the Herbert West Re-Animator novella – and became life long fans of Jeffrey Combs that night!
Now Arrow Video is releasing a limited edition of the cult horror classic on Blu-ray. Two Blu-rays in fact and each is chock full of extras and goodies. Re-Animator: Limited Edition arrives in stores August 8th and carries an MSRP of $39.99.
From Arrow Video:
HERBERT WEST HAS A GOOD HEAD ON HIS SHOULDERS… AND ANOTHER ONE ON HIS DESK.
One of the most wildly popular horror movies of all-time, Stuart Gordon’s enduring splatter-comedy classic Re-Animator returns to Blu-ray in a stunning restoration packed with special features!
When medical student Dean Cain advertises for a roommate, he soon finds one in the form of Dr. Herbert West. Initially a little eccentric, it some becomes clear that West entertains some seriously outlandish theories – specifically, the possibility of re-animating the dead. It’s not long before Dean finds himself under West’s influence, and embroiled in a serious of ghoulish experiments which threaten to go wildly out of control…
Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s classic terror tale Herbert West – Reanimator and featuring a standout performance from Jeffrey Combs as the deliciously deranged West, Re-Animator remains the ground-zero of ’80s splatter mayhem and one of the genre’s finest hours.
2-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
– 4K restorations of the Unrated and Integral versions
– High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
– Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
– Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by journalist Michael Gingold
– Re-Animator comic book
– 4 x postcard-sized lobby card reproductions
DISC 1 – UNRATED VERSION
– Unrated version [86 mins]
– Mono, Stereo and 5.1 DTS-HD MA Surround Audio Options
– Isolated Score
– Brand new audio commentary with director Stuart Gordon and actors Graham Skipper and Jesse Merlin of Re-Animator: The Musical
– Audio commentary with Stuart Gordon
– Audio commentary with producer Brian Yuzna, actors Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Bruce Abbott and Robert Sampson
– Re-Animator: Resurrectus – feature-length documentary on the making of the film, featuring extensive interviews with cast and crew
– Interviews with director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna, writer Dennis Paoli, composer Richard Band and former Fangoria editor Tony Timpone
– Music discussion with composer Richard Band
– Barbara Crampton in Conversation – the Re-Animator star sits down with journalist Alan Jones for this career-spanning 2015 interview
– The Catastrophe of Success: Stuart Gordon and The Organic Theater – director Stuart Gordon discusses his early theater roots and his continued commitment to the stage
– Theater of Blood – Re-Animator: The Musical lyricist Mark Nutter on adapting the cult classic for musical theater
– Extended Scenes
– Deleted Scene
– Trailer & TV Spots
– Still Gallery
– Screenplay (BD-ROM Content)
DISC 2 – INTEGRAL VERSION – LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE
– Integral Version, available in the US for the first time! [105 mins]
– 5.1 DTS-HD MA Surround Audio
– A Guide to Lovecraftian Cinema – Chris Lackey, host of the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast, provides a comprehensive look at the many cinematic incarnations of Lovecraft’s work
– Doug Bradley’s Spinechillers: Herbert West-Reanimator – actor Jeffrey Combs reads H.P. Lovecraft’s original classic short story
‘RE-ANIMATOR’ THE COMIC – LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE
– 92-page perfect-bound booklet containing Re-Animator, the original 1991 comic book adaptation of the movie, reprinted in its entirety
Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media, Jeff tackles any and all sorts of games but has a special fondness for strategy, conflict sims, and roleplaying games. Plus, he's certainly never at a loss for an opinion...
