Editing Re-Animator (section)

==Reception==
The film was well received by critics, earning mostly positive reviews. [[Pauline Kael]] enjoyed the film's "indigenous American junkiness" and called it "pop [[Luis Buñuel|Buñuel]]; the jokes hit you in a subterranean comic zone that the surrealists' pranks sometimes reached, but without the surrealists' self-consciousness (and art-consciousness)."<ref>{{cite web|author-link=Pauline Kael|last=Kael |first=Pauline|url=http://www.geocities.ws/paulinekaelreviews/r2.html|title=Re-Animator|work=geocities.ws/paulinekaelreview/r2.html}}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, "I walked out somewhat surprised and reinvigorated (if not re-animated) by a movie that had the audience emitting taxi whistles and wild goat cries."<ref name= "Ebert">{{cite news | last = Ebert | first = Roger | title = ''Re-Animator'' | work = [[Chicago Sun-Times]] | date = October 18, 1985 | url = https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/re-animator-1985 | access-date = 2008-08-27 }}</ref> In her review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Janet Maslin]] wrote, "''Re-Animator'' has a fast pace and a good deal of grisly vitality. It even has a sense of humor, albeit one that would be lost on 99.9 percent of any ordinary moviegoing crowd".<ref name= "Maslin">{{cite web | last= Maslin |first=Janet | author-link= Janet Maslin | title = Re Animator (1985) SCREEN: STUART GORDON DIRECTS 'RE-ANIMATOR'' | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = October 18, 1985 | url = https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9E04EED91E39F93BA25753C1A963948260 }}</ref>

Paul Attanasio, in his review for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', praised Jeffrey Combs' performance: "Beady-eyed, his face hard, almost lacquered, Combs makes West into a brittle, slightly fey [[psychosis|psychotic]] in the [[Anthony Perkins]] mold. West is a figure of fun, but Combs doesn't spoof him."<ref name= "Attanasio">{{cite news | last = Attanasio | first = Paul | title = Captivating Cutups | newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] | pages = D8 | date = October 25, 1985 | url =https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/10/25/movies/7a9fb75f-bf11-4e36-b9af-cc88875a3571/ }}</ref> In his review for the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', Kevin Thomas wrote, "The big noise is Combs, a small, compact man of terrific intensity and concentration."<ref name= "Thomas">{{cite news | last = Thomas | first = Kevin | title = ''Re-Animator'' | work = [[Los Angeles Times]] | pages = 11 | date = October 25, 1985 }}</ref> [[David Edelstein]], writing for ''[[Village Voice]]'', placed the film in his year-end Top Ten Movies list.

In their book ''Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft'', Andrew Migliore and John Strysik write: "''Re-Animator'' took First Prize at the Paris Festival of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror, a Special Prize at the [[Cannes Film Festival]], and even spawned a short-lived series of comic books. Even though it was a hit with audiences, the film generated a huge amount of controversy among Lovecraft readers. Fans thought the film a desecration of Lovecraft; their literary hero would never write such obvious exploitation! But the final criticism of the film might have been a bit more muted if these fans had actually read the 'West' stories, which are pure exploitation. Lovecraft himself acknowledged as much, and female love interest and black sex humor aside, ''Re-Animator'' really is one of the more faithful and effective adaptations."<ref name= "lurker">{{cite book |last1=Migliore |first1=Andrew |last2=Strysik |first2=John |title=Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft |publisher=Night Shade Books |date=February 1, 2006 |isbn=978-1892389350}}</ref> Bruce C. Hallenbeck, in his book ''Comedy-Horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914-2008'', said the film was one of the few to successfully combine genuine scares with genuine laughs, and praised Combs's performance as retaining the theatricality of classic horror stars. He remarked that "''Re-Animator'' broke down the barriers between 'splatter movies' and comedy-horror films. Its buckets of gore mixed with barrels of laughs, and it opened up a whole new realm where nothing was sacred and nothing was taboo."<ref name=Hallcom/>

[[Review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]] retrospectively collected 62 reviews and gave the film an approval rating of 94%, with an average rating of 7.81/10. The website's critical consensus states, "Perfectly mixing humor and horror, the only thing more effective than ''Re-Animator''{{'}}s gory scares are its dry, deadpan jokes."<ref>{{rotten-tomatoes|reanimator|Re-Animator}}</ref> [[Metacritic]] gave the film a rating of 73 out of 100 based on reviews from 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/re-animator|title=Re-Animator Reviews|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=November 11, 2020}}</ref> ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' ranked the film number 32 on their list of "The Top 50 Cult Films,"<ref name= "EWCult">{{cite magazine | author = EW Staff | title = The Top 50 Cult Films | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | publisher = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date = May 23, 2003 | url = http://www.filmsite.org/cultfilmsew.html }}</ref> and number 14 on their "The Cult 25: The Essential Left-Field Movie Hits Since '83" list.<ref name= "EWCult25">{{cite magazine | author = EW Staff | title = The Cult 25: The Essential Left-Field Movie Hits Since '83 | magazine = [[Entertainment Weekly]] | publisher = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date = September 3, 2008 | url = https://ew.com/gallery/cult-25-essential-left-field-movie-hits-83/ | access-date = 2008-09-04 }}</ref>