AFI's Totally Awesome 4 Re-Animator (1985) Directors Cut 25th Anniversary

Re-Animator is an all time personal favorite horror film and I was lucky enough to catch an original 35mm print during the AFI's Totally Awesome 80s retrospective. This is the fourth year the AFI is showcasing classics from the 80s in all their retro glory. The event is still ongoing for the rest of the summer and I hope you'll be able to catch some of it. Also be sure to check out my Re-Animator Drinking Game.

Film Review
A promising medical student and his girlfriend become involved in dark medical experiments when a new student arrives from Europe. The new student is rude, creepy, and obsessed with re-animating dead tissue. Instead of following any scientific method or reasonable approach he start bringing the dead back to life. For their forbidden studies the boys are expelled so they break into the morgue in an effort to prove their findings. This blows up in their faces and horror ensues.

The film quality was scratched and marked from all the showings of this film over the years.To me that only ads to the quality of seeing an original print of any film. The sound quality was perfect though so the Re-Animator theme was pumping with all it's suspenseful passion. I didn't like the fact that it was in Theater 3, which is the smallest of the bunch.

Films like Re-Animator are meant to be seen on the big screen. I have personally seen this film a few dozen times, but it's a brand new film in it's original format. I even jumped a few times, even though I knew a scare was coming. The crowd was a bakers dozen, but each of them were horror movie veterans. We joked at the ridiculous plot and had difficulity suspending our disbelif at the lack of scientific restraint on the part of the medical students. We heckle, laugh, and pretend like we didn't jump when the movie totally spooked us.

If You Liked Re-Animator You'll Also Enjoy
- The Evil Dead (Ultimate Edition)
- Evil Dead II
- Dead Alive

Theater Information
-Address: 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910
-Phone: 301.495.6720 & 301.495.6700 (Movie listing recording)
-Parking: Lee Building behind theater $3 a night
-Closet Metro: Two blocks Silver Spring (Red Line)
-Tickets: Varies but usually around $10
-Food: Hot dogs, pop corn, etc
-Drinks: Soda, beer, wine
-Gift Cards: YesThe AFI's Totally Awesome 80s retrospective is back againfor its fourth summer.