Editing Re-Animator (section)

==Release==
''Re-Animator'' was released on October 18, 1985, in 129 theaters, and grossed $543,728 during its opening weekend. It went on to make $2,023,414 in [[North America]], above its estimated $900,000 budget.<ref name= "BoxOffice">{{cite news | title = ''Re-Animator'' | work = [[Box Office Mojo]] | url = https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=reanimator.htm | access-date = 2008-08-27 }}</ref> However, it experienced its greatest commercial success when released on home video.<ref name=Hallcom/> The film was re-released with a premiere on May 21, 2010, as part of Creation Entertainment's Weekends of Horror.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dreadcentral.com/news/36229/creations-weekend-horror-re-animator-reunion-grows-bigger|title=Creation's Weekend of Horrors Re-Animator Reunion Grows Bigger|work=[[Dread Central]]|date=March 3, 2010 }}</ref>

===Home video===
The film was originally released on [[VHS]], [[LaserDisc]] and [[Betamax]] by [[Vestron Video]], and was later released on [[DVD]] by [[Elite Entertainment]] on April 30, 2002<ref>{{cite web|first=Enrique|last=Rivero|url=http://www.hive4media.com/news/html/Product_article.cfm?article_id=2443|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020130173503/http://www.hive4media.com:80/news/html/Product_article.cfm?article_id=2443|title=Special Edition Gives Night of the Living Dead New Life|website=hive4media.com|archive-date=January 30, 2002|date=January 18, 2002|access-date=September 9, 2019}}</ref> in two versions: a standard DVD edition, and a "Millennium Edition" featuring a remastered picture and two commentary tracks, one by writer/director Stuart Gordon and the other by the entire main cast except for David Gale, who died in 1991.<ref name="IGN Millennium">{{cite web|last=Sanchez|first=Rick|title=H.P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator Millennium Edition|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/05/15/hp-lovecrafts-re-animator-millennium-edition|publisher=IGN|access-date=August 30, 2024|date=May 15, 2002}}</ref> This [[THX]] certified two-disc DVD release also comes with [[Dolby Digital]] 5.1 standard and isolated musical score audio tracks, a 2.0 mono audio track and a [[DTS, Inc.|DTS]] 5.1 audio track.<ref name="IGN Millennium" />

===R-rated version===
When ''Re-Animator'' was originally released in theaters, the filmmakers did not submit it for rating by the [[Motion Picture Association of America]] (MPAA), for fear that it would receive an [[X rating]]. However, this presented advertising restrictions, since many media outlets had policies against promoting unrated films.<ref name=AFI/> In early 1986, the filmmakers submitted a re-edited version of ''Re-Animator'' to the MPAA, which received an R rating.<ref name=AFI/> In the US, the vast majority of home media releases of the film used the unrated version.<ref name=Hallcom/><ref name=cens/>

The R-rated version runs 93 minutes and has much of the gore edited out and replaced with various scenes which had been deleted for pacing purposes, including a subplot involving Dr. Hill hypnotizing several of the characters to make them more suggestible to his will (in this version, Dean Halsey is hypnotized early on to turn him against West, and then later is hypnotized again after he has been re-animated; in the theatrical film, the re-animated Halsey's submission is merely a result of the lobotomy). In addition, a short scene was added showing Herbert West injecting himself with small amounts of the reagent to stay awake and energized; this may have affected his thinking over the course of the film.<ref>{{cite AV media|title=Re-Animator|date=October 18, 1985|medium=Film|publisher=[[Empire International Pictures]]|trans-title=R-Rated Cut|people=[[Stuart Gordon]] (Director)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/246321/re-animator-blu-ray-2/|title=Re-Animator (Blu-ray)|publisher=[[Dread Central]]|first=Anthony|last=Arrigo|date=August 10, 2017|access-date=November 11, 2020}}</ref>

The unrated version is often labeled as a "[[director's cut]]", which strictly speaking is false: director Stuart Gordon was not allowed to determine the final cut on any version of the film. However, Gordon has expressed his preference for the unrated version over the R-rated version.<ref name=cens>{{cite web|access-date=2016-03-20|title=Movie-Censorship.com: Re-Animator|url=http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=5046980|publisher=Movie-Censorship.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Gallagher |first=John Andrew |chapter=Stuart Gordon |title=Film Directors on Directing |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1989 |page=95 |isbn=9780275932725 |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/filmdirectorsond00gall/page/98}}</ref>

===Integral cut===
A 2013 German [[Blu-ray]] release of ''Re-Animator'' also included a new "Integral cut," wherein the extra material from the R-rated version was incorporated into the unrated version, expanding the film from 86 minutes to just under 105 minutes. This extended cut has also been included with other non-US releases.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=20904|access-date=2016-03-20|publisher=DVDCompare.net|title=DVDCompare.net: Re-Animator (Blu-ray)}}</ref>