Re-Animator

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David Gale, who plays Dr. Carl Hill, wears a wig in the film. "And a bad wig," adds Yuzna. His own h [...]	D
Stuart Gordon: [shovel] A shovel is used as a weapon.	D
The opening theme borrows heavily from the Alfred Hitchcock's Psyco (1960) opening theme by Bernard [...]	D
The first cut of the film was two and a half hours long. The released version is 87 minutes.	D
Jeffrey Combs recalls having to feed David Gale cigarettes during the scene with Hill's head in the [...]	D
David Gale was made to shave his head and wear a toupee, as this was found to be in keeping with Dr. [...]	D
There's silence on the commentary when Megan's undead father plops her onto the gurney and removes h [...]	D
An actual screen used prop of Dr. Hill's decapitated head was the top prize in Fangoria Magazine's R [...]	D
There was originally a subplot that revealed that Dr. Hill had the ability to control minds. It was [...]	D
Barbara Crampton told Entertainment Weekly in October 2020 that she came in on a second round of aud [...]	D
The biggest makeup challenge in the film was the headless Dr. Hill zombie, Tony Doubling designed th [...]	D
The unrated version of the film was banned in the Canadian province of Ontario and only US "R" rated [...]	D
Originally, director Stuart Gordon wanted to shoot the movie in black and white on a 16mm film to gi [...]	D
Sampson went home for the day after shooting one of his zombified scenes with his face still done up [...]	D
One of the nurses seen when the doctor takes over for Cain is played by the production's accountant, [...]	D
Charles Band was reported to have originally disliked the film before releasing it through his compa [...]	D
Abbott recalls having trouble guiding the gurney down the hallway to the morgue. "You know we got th [...]	D
Actor David Gale's wife divorced him shortly after this film's release. In the DVD's audio commentar [...]	D
Jeffrey Combs hates the line where he says, "He took my serum, except for what I have upstairs!" "Te [...]	D
The opening scene where Dan fails to resuscitate a dead patient and is told by one of his peers that [...]	D
There have been rumors of a fourth movie entitled House of Re-Animator which has been denied by Jeff [...]	D
Barbara Crampton naked on the morgue table was named #3 on its Top 20 Gratuitous Nude Scenes of The [...]	D
The head-less Hill effect was achieved in part with the use of a belt. The performer inside the fake [...]	D
Richard Band went over schedule by two days while composing the score in Rome, Italy. As a direct re [...]	D
John Naulin worked on the film's gruesome makeup effects, using what he described as "disgusting sho [...]	D
West's voice rises a bit when he introduces himself at Cain's house, and Jeffrey Combs attributes it [...]	D
The film was shot in only 18 days. 16 days was of principal filming and 2 days of pick-ups.	D
David Bowie worked with cinematographer Mac Ahlberg on Dream On: The Second Greatest Story Ever Told [...]	D
H.P. Lovecraft never really liked his Re-animator stories and wrote them only because he got five do [...]	D
The woman Dan is seen attempting to resuscitate at the beginning of the film was a "dildo enthusiast [...]	D
Sampson asks whose hands are in the shot messily fondling Megan's breasts while Hill's head looks on [...]	D
The idea to make the film came from a discussion Stuart Gordon had with friends one night about vamp [...]	D
Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli originally intended to be faithful to H.P. Lovecraft's story, but the [...]	D
The Dr. Carl Hill role was originally written for Christopher Lee. But, when Lee turned the role dow [...]	D
The film is director Stuart Gordon directorial debut.	D
The first man who is re-animated at the morgue (who goes on to kill the dean) is Peter Kent, Arnold [...]	D
The necklace Barbara Crampton is wearing when Megan discovers her dear old dad is now a re-animated [...]	D
The film loosely adapts the first half of H.P. Lovecraft's original short story, including Herbert a [...]	D
Brian Yuzna plays one of the background corpses in the hospital morgue.	D
The actors playing the re-animated corpses all worked out together at the YMCA to coordinate their m [...]	D
"David felt spiritually bereft," says Sampson, regarding the scene where his head goes spelunking in [...]	D
In Japan, the film is titled "ZOMBIO" ("Drifting Spirits"). The sequel dropped the "Zombio" title th [...]	D
Originally, Gordon was going to adapt Lovecraft's story for the stage, but eventually decided along [...]	D
Jeffrey Combs was able to convince director Stuart Gordon to let him put his socks and shoes on duri [...]	D
The poster at the head of Dan's bed is for the band Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. Ta [...]	D
The film was never given a rating by the MPAA as the filmmakers knew the film would be given the dre [...]	D
The special effects department went through twenty-four gallons of fake blood during the shoot, Naul [...]	D
The cast collectively love the jokey inclusion of a Talking Heads poster above Cain's bed while he a [...]	D
The "brains" in the severed head were made up of steer meat by-products, ground beef and fake blood [...]	D
When David Gale's wife first saw the infamous "giving head" scene, she stormed out shouting "David, [...]	D
Herbert West was one of Jeffrey Combs' first lead roles, which is why almost everything he's done si [...]	D
Barbara Crampton talked about doing nude scenes in this and other films during a 2014 interview: "An [...]	D
In the DVD commentary, Jeffrey Combs expressed regret over the "Who's going to believe a talking hea [...]	D
The intro to Herbert West's peculiar experiments and their bloody results was in the script but wasn [...]	D
Abbott really wanted to use a particular take of the scene where he's distraught over Megan's death. [...]	D
The bald, bearded doctor at the foot of Megan's bed who gets shoved away as Dan tries to revive her [...]	D
Producer Brian Yuzna described the film as having the "sort of shock sensibility of an Evil Dead wit [...]	D
According to director Stuart Gordon, the morgue security guard who leaves his post repeatedly for co [...]	D
"I hurt her a lot," says Abbott during his intro scene performing chest compressions on an extra. "I [...]	D
Barbara Crampton does all her own screaming in the film.	D
When he initially auditioned for the role of 'Herbert West', Jeffrey Combs had no idea who H.P. Love [...]	D
Very loosely adapted from H.P. Lovecraft's "Herbert West - Re-Animator".	D
The doctor Herbert West re-animates in the opening scene is named Hans Gruber, the same name of the [...]	D
The padded cell that Dean Halsey was confined in after being reanimated was hastily constructed and [...]	D
Brian Yuzna has also planned two other sequels: Re-Animator Unbound! and Re-Animator Begins. The for [...]	D
Barbara Crampton stunned the guys with a question none of them had pondered before regarding the sce [...]	D
Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Robert Sampson, and director Stuart Gordon visited an insane asylum [...]	D
The building used for the Miskatonic Medical School is the same one as the Cyberdine Headquarters in [...]	D
An actual dead cat was used for the scene with Rufus in the fridge.	D
According to "Re-animator: Ressurectus", the 70-minute featurette on the Limited edition two-disc "R [...]	D
The opening scene set in Zurich, Switzerland was actually (and unsurprisingly) filmed in Pasadena.	D
Tom Towles was originally set to play the first re-animated corpse before Peter Kent got the part.	D
Abbott gave Barbara Crampton his denim jacket from the film after production wrapped, and she still [...]	D
The British Film Censors weren't impressed with the scene where the severed head Dr. Hill attempts t [...]	D
The opening credits sequence pays visual homage to Saul Bass' work in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (19 [...]	D

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