Stuart Gordon’s horror traditional Re-Animator is celebrating its fortieth anniversary subsequent 12 months with a model new 4K UHD restoration from Ignite Movies, Bloody Disgusting has discovered!
For the primary time ever, Re-Animator returns with a surprising 4K UHD restoration, accredited by producer Brian Yuzna. The restoration brings new life to this horror traditional, based mostly on H.P. Lovecraft’s twisted story. Pre-orders have been additionally launched immediately on the Ignite Movies web site, the place it is going to be solely accessible for your entire fortieth Anniversary 12 months, till 2026!
The road date is April 3, 2025. Pre-order your copy immediately!
“I’m excited in regards to the fortieth Anniversary 4K UHD Blu-ray launch of Re-Animator — it appears nice! Particularly if in case you have an enormous display screen! A superb restoration, it’s like seeing it for the primary time once more. Stuart Gordon would have been tremendous proud, and so blissful that Re-Animator continues to be connecting with horror audiences and that this restoration is re-animating the film in all its wonderful insanity – simply as Herbert West supposed!” exclaimed Brian Yuzna, Producer.
“Working with Brian Yuzna on this fortieth Anniversary 4K UHD launch of Re-Animator has been an unbelievable expertise. His ardour and dedication to the movie made your entire course of an actual pleasure. Seeing this horror traditional look higher than ever is so thrilling, and we are able to’t watch for followers to have fun this milestone with us. It’s a real celebration of a movie that continues to captivate audiences 40 years later,” stated Jim Quan, Eagle Rock Photos.
The movie follows Herbert West, a superb but unhinged medical scholar who creates a serum that reanimates the lifeless with horrifying penalties. Director Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator shocked audiences together with his mix of grotesque horror and darkish humor and have become an instantaneous cult traditional upon its launch in 1985. The movie stars Jeffrey Combs as “Herbert West,” Bruce Abbott as “Dan Cain,” Barbara Crampton as “Megan Halsey,” David Gale as “Dr. Carl Hill,” and Robert Sampson as “Dean Halsey.”
This fortieth Anniversary launch of Re-Animator from Ignite Movies and Eagle Rock Photos captures each gory element of West’s obsession in vivid 4K and invitations followers, previous and new, to expertise the movie’s boundary-pushing terror like by no means earlier than.
Followers can select from 4 editions, solely at Ignite-Movies.com, all of which embrace NEW and former launch extras.
The Final Restricted Version Field Set features a 4K UHD/Blu-ray combo, NEW and former launch extras, a 150-page hardcover ebook that includes interviews with Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, author Dennis Paoli, and composer Richard Band, with essays by Scout Tafoya, Kate Rife, Will Sloan, Alex Kittle, and Ben Sachs, and preface by Brian Yuzna, and collector’s artwork playing cards. PLUS A LIMITED-EDITION Dr. Hill Collector’s Bobblehead – A should have for followers! With restricted portions accessible, this unique hand-painted collectible won’t be restocked as soon as it’s gone.
For individuals who select the Final Restricted Version Field Set, some fortunate followers will uncover inexperienced “re-agent” of their order! Which means they are going to obtain an unique signed poster by Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, and Brian Yuzna, plus a particular Re-Animator reward pack from Center of Past.
The Deluxe Version Field Set features a 4K UHD/Blu-ray combo, NEW and former launch extras, a 150-page hardcover ebook that includes interviews with Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, author Dennis Paoli, and composer Richard Band, with essays by Scout Tafoya, Kate Rife, Will Sloan, Alex Kittle, and Ben Sachs, and preface by Brian Yuzna, and collector’s artwork playing cards.
The 4K Commonplace Version consists of the 4K UHD Blu-ray, slipcover, and NEW and former launch extras.
The Blu-ray Commonplace Version consists of the Blu-ray, slipcover, and NEW and former launch extras.
Right here’s the total rundown for every version…
Final Restricted Version Field Set
- 4K UHD/Blu-ray combo
- New and former launch extras
- 150-page hardcover ebook that includes interviews with Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, author Dennis Paoli, and composer Richard Band, with essays by Scout Tafoya, Kate Rife, Will Sloan, Alex Kittle, and Ben Sachs, and preface by Brian Yuzna
- A LIMITED-EDITION Dr. Hill Collector’s Bobblehead – A should have for followers! With restricted portions accessible, this unique hand-painted collectible won’t be restocked as soon as it’s gone
- Collector’s artwork playing cards
- ULTIMATE LIMITED EDITION BOX SET PRIZE BONUS: Some fortunate followers will uncover inexperienced “re-agent” of their order! If you’re considered one of them, you’ll obtain an unique signed poster by Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, and Brian Yuzna, plus a particular Re-Animator reward pack from our associates at Center of Past.
Deluxe Version Field Set
- 4K UHD/Blu-ray combo
- New and former launch extras
- 150-page hardcover ebook that includes interviews with Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, author Dennis Paoli, and composer Richard Band, with essays by Scout Tafoya, Kate Rife, Will Sloan, Alex Kittle, and Ben Sachs, and preface by Brian Yuzna
- Collector’s artwork playing cards
4K Commonplace Version
- 4K UHD
- Slipcover
- New and former launch extras
Blu-ray Commonplace Version
- Blu-ray
- Slipcover
- New and former launch extras
New Bonus Options
- Re-Animator at 40: A Dialog with Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, and Brian Yuzna
- Piece By Piece: Chopping Re-Animator – A New Interview with Editor Lee Percy
- The Horror of It All: The Legacy and Influence of Re-Animator
- I Give Her Life: A Look Again at Re-Animator: The Musical
- Re-Animating a Horror Traditional: The 4K Restoration of Re-Animator
- The Natural Theater Firm of Chicago: A 1977 documentary that includes Stuart Gordon
Earlier Bonus Options
- Integral Model (105 minutes)
- Remoted Rating
- 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 – Function-length documentary on the making of the movie that includes in depth interviews with solid and crew.
- Interviews with director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna, author Dennis Paoli, composer Richard Band and former Fangoria editor Tony Timpone
- Music dialogue with composer Richard Band
- The Disaster of Success: Stuart Gordon and The Natural Theater – Director Stuart Gordon discusses his early theater roots and his continued dedication to the stage.
- Theater of Blood – Re-Animator: The Musical composer and lyricist Mark Nutter on adapting the cult traditional for musical theater
- Prolonged scenes
- Deleted scene
- Trailer & TV spots
- Stills gallery
- Barbara Crampton In Dialog: The Re-Animator star sits down with journalist Alan Jones for this career-spanning 2015 interview.
- A Information to Lovecraft Cinema: Chris Lackey, host of the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast, offers a complete take a look at the numerous cinematic incarnations of Lovecraft’s work.
- Doug Bradley’s Spinechillers: Herbert West, Re-Animator actor Jeffrey Combs reads H.P. Lovecraft’s authentic traditional story.
Bloody Disgusting has been instructed that there will probably be thrilling fortieth Anniversary celebrations, screenings, appearances, signings, new merch, and extra, all through 2025, which will probably be shared at Ignite-Movies.com and on their social media. Search for an formally licensed assortment of Re-Animator merchandise to have fun the fortieth Anniversary of Re-Animator coming in 2025 from Fright-Rags, which created the neon inexperienced serum fortieth Anniversary Re-Animator brand.
Re-Animator was directed by Stuart Gordon, based mostly on the brief story “Herbert West, Re-Animator” by H.P. Lovecraft, with a screenplay by Dennis Paoli, William J. Norris, and Stuart Gordon. Produced by Brian Yuzna, with government producers Michael Avery and Bruce Curtis, affiliate producers Bob Greenberg and Charles Donald Storey, with music composed and carried out by Richard Band, cinematography by Mac Ahlberg, and edited by Lee Percy.
Their 4K UHD restoration of Re-Animator is the second foray into sci-fi horror traditional movies for Ignite Movies and Eagle Rock Photos. Their seventieth Anniversary 4K UHD restoration and launch of Invaders From Mars was met with common acclaim from followers and critics worldwide, and was honored with many awards, together with the 2024 SATURN Award® for Finest Traditional Movie Residence Media Launch. The discharge additionally received the Finest Rediscovery of a Forgotten Movie from the Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Awards ®2023 and the Hollywood Skilled Affiliation’s Inaugural Jury Award® for Excellent Achievement in Restoration.
