"Re-Animator" (1985) Film Screening

Event Description

"Re-Animator" (1985) Film Screening
Salem Visitor Center - 2 New Liberty St. Salem, MA, 01970
Saturday, October 12th, 2019
6:00pm

Director Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator adapted from H.P. Lovecraft’s serialized story Herbert West: Reanimator eschews Lovecraft’s seriousness while keeping his terror and mythology. Featuring Jeffery Combs in a cult-star marking turn as West, the fun, violence and gore doesn’t let up in Gordon’s version, nor does the body count. The film both resituates Lovecraft’s work in a modern context while also letting it do most of the work with humor extending from the strangeness of West’s unrelenting pursuit of reanimating the dead within the confines of academia taking education from the ivory tower and bringing to the sublimely absurd. 

Directed by Stuart Gordon    1hr 45m | Not Rated. Details