Oh, sweet zombie Jesus, ANOTHER Re-Animator release? 🙄 Didn’t we all suffer enough back in the ’80s? But noooo, Second Sight Films thinks we need MORE Herbert West in our lives. Brace yourselves, folks, because Stuart Gordon’s “seminal” (read: kinda gross) film is shambling its way onto Dual 4K UHD/Blu-ray Limited Edition and Standard Editions this winter. Because who doesn’t want to see brain goo in Ultra HD? 🤮
Prepare to witness H.P. Lovecraft’s (allegedly) “terrifying” tale, produced by the one and only Brian Yuzna, and featuring the perpetually smug Jeffrey Combs (who apparently peaked with The Frighteners and Star Trek: Deep Space 9), the perpetually confused Bruce Abbott (Interzone, The Bride of Re-Animator), and scream queen Barbara Crampton (From Beyond, You’re Next) – in all its overly-hyped gory glory. And yes, they’re throwing in a “bloody bucketload” of special features, because apparently, the original cinematic crime against humanity wasn’t enough. 🤦♀️
This “horror classic” (and I use that term loosely) is hitting shelves on December 15, 2025, in a “barnstorming” (more like “eye-rolling”) Box Set presented in a rigid slipcase with new artwork by Krishna Shenoi (because the original wasn’t hideous enough) and a “fascinating” (probably snooze-inducing) essay-filled 120-page book. It’s a dual format three-disc edition (one UHD, two Blu-rays) with the main feature and bonus features on both discs, because why not overkill it? Special features include The Integral Version in HD (because you didn’t see enough the first time), a new audio commentary (as if we needed more opinions), and a slew of archive commentaries, interviews, and features. 🎉
So, the story (if you can call it that) goes: 🙄
Some “brilliant,” (more like “bat-crap crazy”) medical student named Herbert West (Combs) shows up at Miskatonic Medical School and has the audacity to think his professor is, get this, “outdated.” 🙄 West has his own “outlandish” (read: totally bonkers) theories and discovers a serum that can re-animate dead flesh. Because, of course, that’s a good idea! Cue the chaos! 💥
He drags in fellow student Dan Cain (Abott) and his poor, unsuspecting girlfriend Megan Halsey (Crampton), and their “shocking” (read: repulsive) experiments work *too* well. Before you know it, the campus is overrun by the undead, turning faculty and students into disturbingly dangerous… well, things. 🧟♂️🧟♀️
Bring your collection “back to life” (more like “straight to the garbage bin”) with the “dead good” (more like “dead awful”) Re-Animator Dual Limited Edition, another “must-have” set from Second Sight Films. (Spoiler alert: It’s not.) 👎
Special Features (aka Reasons to Gouge Your Eyes Out): 🤪
• UHD Presented in HDR with Dolby Vision approved by producer Brian Yuzna (because brain-eating looks better in HDR?)
• Dual format three-disc edition including one UHD and two Blu-rays with main feature and bonus features on both discs (redundancy at its finest!)
• Includes ‘The Integral Version’ in HD (for maximum gore!)
• New Audio Commentary by Eddie Falvey (who is that?)
• Audio Commentary with director Stuart Gordon (more like Stuart Bored-on)
• Audio Commentary with producer Brian Yuzna and Actors Bruce Abbott, Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton and Robert Sampson (because they haven’t talked about this enough already)
• The Cosmic Horror of HP Lovecraft: a video essay by Mike Muncer (probably more interesting than the actual film)
• Re-Animator at 40: conversation with actors Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, and Producer Brian Yuzna (still milking it after all these years)
• Piece By Piece: Cutting Re-Animator: an interview with editor Lee Percy (more like Butchering Re-Animator)
• Suzie Sorority and The Good College Boy: an interview with actor Carolyn Purdy-Gordon (who?)
• The Horror of it All: The Legacy and Impact of Re-Animator (the horror is that it exists)
• Barbara Crampton in Conversation (still screaming, apparently)
• A Guide to Lovecraftian Cinema (because Re-Animator is totally representative)
• Re-Animator Resurrectus (oh god, not again)
• Interview with director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna (still talking!)
• Interview with writer Dennis Paoli (explaining his life choices)
• Interview with composer Richard Band (probably regrets his involvement)
• Interview with former Fangoria editor Tony Timpone (keeping the dream alive!)
• Extended Scenes (yay, more suffering)
• Deleted Scene (probably for the best)
• Theatrical Trailer (lies!)
• TV Spots Still (who watches TV anymore?)
• Gallery (of horrors)
Limited Edition Contents (aka Things to Clutter Your Home): 🗑️
• Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Krishna Shenoi (seriously, who approved this?)
• 120-page book with new essays by Sean Abley, Becky Darke, Lindsay Hallam, Josh Hurtado, Michelle Kisner, Justin LaLiberty, Phil Nobile Jr and Heather Wixson (all desperately trying to find something intelligent to say about Re-Animator)
• Six collectors’ art cards (guaranteed to gather dust)
