For some reason, I didn't love Re-Animator. Should have. Didn't.
The possible causes have been narrowed down to three.
First, the score grates my ears. The main theme to Re-Animator is the main theme to Psycho. Only Psycho did it better, much better. The day Bernard Herrmann wrote Psycho's score, he left any jazz influences he might have had at home. Such influences were not missed. But somehow, twenty-five years later, someone felt that the only thing the music was missing was some smooth saxaphone. Vomitpuke.
Second, the hype. Hype hurts films and I hate that. What's been positive in my experience, however, is that hype usually only ruins first viewings. I have a hypothesis involving Re-Animator and second viewings that I plan on experimenting with in the near furute.
Third, an overwhelming feeling that I'd seen it all before. This is most definitely not the film's fault, it was made before Dead Alive and Frankenhooker but that doesn't change the fact that Re-Animator seemed awfully familiar.
My conclusion in this oddly weighted five-paragraph essay about Re-Animator is that all things considered, I was probably just having an off-night. The score is annoying but hype and similarity are stupid reasons to not like something. To read a much better review of Re-Animator, visit one of my favorite defunct blogs, The Kinetoscope Parlor.
3 comments:
One of my favorites. Disappointed you didn't like it, but I think you're right. Repeat viewings surely help with a picture like this....
have you ever seen flesh for frankenstein? it's this paul morrisey movie from maybe the late 60s or early 70s and produced by warhol. it's a lot like re-animator (but better (and i love re-animator)).
I didn't like FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN nearly as much as I like RE-ANIMATOR. But I do love BLOOD FOR DRACULA a whole lot....
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