27th July, 2016.
You know, I have to admit to a certain amount of disappointments today.
This week’s Gazette Teaser got nudged aside: at least, the print edition did.
Replaced by an advert, would you believe!
I don’t ask for much: just the chance to have my work aired in the local paper.
I know they have to take adverts: but to bump me out, as well as the readers letter?
Little disappointing, that.
At ANY rate … ?
At any rate, as I had the night off?
I felt I deserved a movie.
If for no other reason than to hide from my kid sister, Ruth.
Well, I DID buy my nephew, Jude, a water pistol, this afternoon.
I THINK I could be in trouble!
Either Way, the movie was something I’ve not actually seen in years.
1985’s Stuart Gordon directed, Brian Yuzna produced, H. P. Lovecraft inspired piece that is …
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Re-Animator opens in Zurich: showing us two policemen, a nurse and a hospital administrator breaking into the office of Dr Hans Gruber.
The unfortunate doctor … ?
The unfortunate doctor … ?
Has just died horribly: and been brought back to life by the arcane practises of student, Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs).
A few weeks later?
West is now enrolled at Miskatonic Medical School: where he soon rents a room from fellow student, Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott).
West is now enrolled at Miskatonic Medical School: where he soon rents a room from fellow student, Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott).
And ends up in trouble: as Dan’s girlfriend, Megan (Barbara Crampton) takes a dislike to the unnerving Herbert …
And the pair find out exactly what Herbert’s been doing in the basement with a dead cat …
That … ?
Well, apart from leaving those of us of a certain age with vague memories of 101 Uses for a Dead Cat?
Well, apart from leaving those of us of a certain age with vague memories of 101 Uses for a Dead Cat?
That is where the fun starts …
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Now … can I make a confession, here?
I first came across Re-Animator during the home video boom of the 1980s: when video rental shops were as ubiquitous, as common, as Netflix, Amazon and iTunes are, now.
One of the films I frequented rented, having fallen in love with it, back then?
Was Re-Animator.
With good reason, I think. It’s mix of grim horror, pseudo-science and ever-so-sick, black humour?
Appealed hugely.
And, in Combs? An sympathetic mad scientist, fixated on what he’s doing … with a hard stare, and an elegant line in dribbling disdain to the bargain.
Coming back to Re-Animator, many years latter?
Isn’t like watching a work of artistic genius.
But IS like looking in on an old friend: only to discovered it’s looking VERY good, after all this time.
Re-Animator★★★☆
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