Fun fact: Jeffrey Combs has played nine onscreen roles in the Star Trek universe. The funny thing about it: he's not even the one with the most roles in Star Trek. That honor goes to Vaughn Armstrong with 11 roles.
Combs might have lost the crown to Vaughn Armstrong (who did excellent work as a Borg among other species) but dang, who's the actor who rebooted the Andorian species almost single-handed? A: Jeffrey Combs.
Jeffrey Combs plays the greatest Dr Frankenstein here! The two sequels to this movie are just as good and worth watching. There is another H.P. Lovecraft movie called "From Beyond" that stars the same actor and actress. Totally worth watching!
The absolute best thing about this movie is Herbert West. Not truly a villain, but a _proper_ mad scientist. His inability to pass up the chance to revive a corpse truly drives this movie in a brilliant way. I cannot recommend the sequels. Different writers, different director, not nearly as good. However, there is a _sequel in spirit_ to this movie that you must watch. Stuart Gordon directs again, with a story based loosely on Lovecraft, and Jeffery Combs and Barbara Crampton starring. That movie is *_From Beyond_* and its absolutely worth the watch.
Not to get too "Actor's Studio" on why this movie is a "classic", but those lines could have easily come off like a Saturday Night Live sketch: set-up, punchline etc., no timing. But these actors really sell it- like how you would might react if you came across a bloody scene, and your roommate explains he had to kill your Prof! This whole movie works because the cast buys into it, without question. A little like how Star Wars worked, too.
"Dirty old decapitated man" isn't a sentence I expected to hear today 😆 I saw a commenter mention "From Beyond", and that flick is definitely worth a watch. From Beyond has the same director (Stuart Gordon) and the same kind of fun 80's body horror effects. It's kind of wild that Gordon would later go on to write a classic family-friendly comedy, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", of all things.
There's also BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR (1990) and BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR (2003). Stuart Gordon directed RE-ANIMATOR and he used actors Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton again in my favorite Lovecraft adaptation FROM BEYOND (1986).
Takes a special type of person to appreciate this much gore in their movie, and I'm so glad you're one of them! Herbert West is one of my absolute favorite characters because he's so arrogant and over the top, and the one and only Jeffrey Combs plays him perfectly. It has all the best kind of cringe and glad you could appreciate it. The 2nd Reanimator wasn't so good due to production issues, but the third is brilliant! And as others have said, definitely worth checking out From Beyond as well.
One could say 'Based on', but one could more accurately say 'Ripped off entirely'. Don't get me wrong, I like the way they arranged it, but that IS the Psycho theme.
"Herbert West - Reanimator" is often considered one of his worst stories, largely because he resented the editorial oversight and didn't enjoy writing it, so its a bit half-assed. The movie only uses some very rough concepts and characters from the original story's first few parts and leaves most of it on the chopping block. Interestingly, the sequel ends with West and Cain on the run in South America, still performing their experiments, which is taken from the story.
Stuart Gordon who directed this also did another Lovecraft inspired film right after this called FROM BEYOND that has Jeff Combs and Barbara Crampton back but in reveresed roles. (She plays the mad scientist). And they both also appear in his 90s cult film "Castle Freak". I also reccomend Gordon's 1988 film DOLLS, which is the precursor to all those 90s Puppet Master movies, except... its actually good 😂
Such a great movie! I Still remember when I first saw it with my friends back in the 80s. We were in stitches over the pencil breaking stunt! This and Evil Dead 2 where our absolute favorites! God you're stunningly beautiful Miranda, k.o.k.o.!!! 😉❤😘
RE: Jeffrey Combs; An excellent B-movie lead, Combs commits to his roles with such conviction, and sells them entirely by going over the top with every monologue he's given. For an idea what he looks like in a larger studio production (other than TV) check out "The Frighteners" starring Michael J. Fox.
Stuart Gordon did a few Lovecraft-inspired films including this one. I think his movie Dagon (2001) did a decent job of capturing the spirit of it, being taken from The Shadow Over Innsmouth, despite the usual limited budget and large changes required. The 2019 Color Out Of Space by Richard Stanley is a decent depiction, along with the very indie 2010 Color Out Of Space from Germany which has some moments capturing the creepy and unknown mystery of the story. I doubt anyone could make a good one-to-one film directly based on Lovecraft stories but I appreciate the attempts which, at least, get into the neighborhood.
Stuart Gordon also directed my favourite English language movie adaptation of Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth (second best over all). But strangely enough this 2001 movie was titled "Dagon" as it took a lot from that and other Lovecraft-stories, but mostly it's The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
Dagon is pretty awesome with some great effects and terrific performance from Macarena Gómez as Uxia, but Ezra Godden is no Jeffery Combs, despite looking like him. You can really tell Gordon wanted Combs and Crampton for this, but alas, actors age.
The ending is supposed to be a Book End to how it started. We started with Herbert using the Re-Agent on his dead Mentor and we saw what happened...now we're left dreading what that dosage did to the dead Meg.
From what I've gathered, the name "Hans Gruber" is the German version of "John Doe". I guess that's why we occasionally see it referenced. At least, back in the 80s.
Dr. Gruber and the Gruber of Died Hard are not alone. In the 1966 spy spoof, Our Man Flint (which is great fun by the way), there's an assassin named Hans Gruber, who we learn was once kicked out of the Hitler Youth.
The Lovecraft this was based on was published as a serial in a magazine in ten parts, and was more or less a parody of Frankenstein-like horror that had been very popular and repeated a long time by then. When I watched this, and especially the sequels, many years after reading it, I thought it didn't treat the original fairly. I had just forgotten the tone of it and took it too serious as I was young reading it. But after reading it again I saw how close this really was, and even the sequels too. And Jeffrey Combs was perfect in the role. Both his looks and his acting, except for not being blonde, is straight from the pages of Lovecraft.
Never seen this before but i liked it! Would be interested in seeing the sequals! Great reaction Miranda! Luv the Freddy Kruger shirt and the Spock-O-Lantern! Lol 🎃👻🧟♀️ Happy Halloween!🧟🎃👻
I didn;t catch onto the poster of the head and glad you liked it. Here's another Lovecraft movie with one of the actors - From Beyond (1986). It's actually quite tragic. Best of luck!
An odd thing about Re-animator is that the original NR and R rated edits both have a few scenes that are confusing, and you have to see both versions to understand the story threads. Question is if they did that on purpose or by accident. The movie while low budget was well written and planned by the creators, a passion project winking at the genre.
Every time in the movie that they called for Rufus the cat, my dog Rufus picked his head up and looked at me. I don't think he's heard his name on TV before. Love the Freddie Kreuger sweater.
One thing i remember them saying in the Fangoria issue about this is that they did a lot of work on the colours of the corpses to make them more realistic than they often look in movies (according to the filmmakers, anyway)
This IS a loose adaptation of an actual Lovecraft story originally titled "Herbert West, Re-Animator". Even the original was tongue-in-cheek with the decapitated body toting around the head in a cloth covered bird cage. There's even an "audio" version read by...Jeffrey Combs!
I love this movie. Great choice Miranda. Do yourself a favour and skip the sequels, they are not a patch on this one. BTW Your giggle fit at the cat was infectious 🙂
Anything with Jeffrey Combs in it is fine with me. He's also done some work with Edgar Allan Poe stories. For more horror fun I recommend the "Masters of Horror" cable series, 26 hour-long episodes which ran on Showtime 2005-2007. Each was directed by a known horror film director who got to choose the story. The 6th episode 'Homecoming' is very appropriate just before the election. They've all been released on DVD.
It was bugging me where else in media had a crazy Dr. West who messed with creatures and bodies. Then it came to me, he's the bad guy in the Splatterhouse videogames. Which are based on Lovecraft also.
dear miranda, we beg you, if possible one day, please react to classic horror from 1988 called The Blob and also the movie called The Phantom from 1998
Now watch “From Beyond” (1986) … same cast in another Lovecraft classic . How many times did I look at that “Talking Heads” poster and never put that together. Good catch ! 🎃🎥🎞✌️✌️✌️
Since you're watching Star Trek: TOS, you might be interested in learning that Jeffrey Combs is a Star Trek character acting legend. My favorite is DS9's Weyoun, but he appears as 4 different characters in that series. He's also a recurring character in Star Trek: Enterprise and has a voice-acting role in Star Trek: Lower Decks.
What an amazing way to start a reaction. "Universität Zürich, they're in Germany. Other than Zürich is the largest city in Switzerland. They should teach more Geography in the USA. Great Lovecraftian horror, and good reaction though.
There were a few sub plots filmed that were removed from the final cut. One of them was elaborating on Doctor hill's mesmerizing abilities... Where he hypnotizes the Dean... Which explains why he was so quick to kick Dan out of med school. There was a weirder subplot where it's revealed that Doctor West is literally shooting up with his reagent and possibly it's what's leading to his madness. I think they were right to cut both of those because they do drag the film down and it just feels like padding. The deleted scenes are on the disc releases tho.
When horror movies were still great. Especially when Jeffrey Combs was in it. From Beyond is also a must-see. Hellraiser 1 and 2 are also great. Evil Dead, Colour from Space, Underwater, Superdeep, The Void, Night of the Creeps, The Blob, Night of the Comet etc.. H. P. Lovecraft and Clive Barker are the icons of horror literature.
Jeffrey Combs and Barabaro Crampton became horror icons with ReAnimator and From Beyond. The 80s, when movie audiences were still taken seriously. In hindsight, the 80s were an absolutely brilliant decade.
I remember all of us gorehounds trying to track down an unrated VHS of the movie back in the 80s. Did the opening credit music sounds familiar,. It's the theme from "Psycho" tweaked a bit.
When David Gale's wife saw the 'head' scene, she flipped out screaming "This is what you DO?!" over and over, spitting on him. This most likely lead directly to their divorce.
The late David Gale, who played Dr. Hill, was so embarrassed by the nude "head" scene that he kept apologizing to Barbara Crampon for it. She was a sport and told him it was just acting. She did several of these Brian Yuzna films which somehow always required her to display her feminine charms disrobed. She was, and is, a good actor, though. Although this is a gruesome film, it has a strange tongue-in-cheek sense of humor. Many of the cast reappear in the other non-sequel films. See, "From Beyond". And Jeffrey Combs is a delight, as always. Congrats to you for appreciating the film's tone and not just discarding it as "gross". Oh, and the producers got heat for cribbing the score from Psycho without crediting it or permission.
Oh, wo other cool horror movies. 'Slugs The Movie' a bit gory and yucky but an underrated flick, and also the colour version of 'Quatermass and the Pit', a bit of a British horror sci-fi classic. Has things in common with 'Lifeforce' in terms of style and genre.
I bloody love this movie. Another good one by the same director is Dagon (but make sure you *only* watch the uncut US version, don’t bother with the R rated one)
24:15 The strong specimen was actually Arnold Schwarzenegger's stunt double at the time. The green syrum is actually the fluids from a glowstick. It's non toxic. Miranda: It's funny because why..? Me: Because West thinks it's so patheticly funny 😂😜 Highly recommend From Beyond, another H.P. Lovecraft based movie directed by the same director Stuart Gordon and stars the same actors, Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton.
As many have mentioned, Jeffrey Combs is heavily associated with Star Trek. You will see him again for a long stretch of time down the line. I’ll let you discover where, and who, but calling him talented is a gross understatement.
It would be cool if there were a way to fix the brain, reactivating neurons and getting adjacent ones to reattach. Probably either by like chemicals or nanites, but IDK. Either way, it would be nice if it were possible to undo the effects of strokes and whatnot.
The theme tune is, to be polite, a barely legally distinct rip-off of the theme tune from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Another actress had been cast to play Meg but apparently had to withdraw after her mother read the script and got to the nude scenes. Barbara Crampton on the other hand was described as 'fearless' by the director. Sadly for the actor who played Dr Hill, his wife divorced him after she saw the scene with his head between Barbara's legs.
I can't help but notice the similarities to "Pet Sematary". Reanimated cat. Reanimated people. Reanimated loved one. Difference: Instead of using a "Magic Place" it is a "Magic Potion". "Pet Sematary" novel (1983) "Re-Animator" movie (1985) "Pet Sematary" movie (1989) It seems to me that Lovecraft was just an excuse to copy Stephen King's idea.
@@MirandaLikestoWatch aw well, anyway, we will still watch u. We like to watch u (lol sorry I know it sounds creepy, I just couldn't help it, u know, horror movies and that, appropriate). 😂
I saw this movie as a teenager, and it freaked me out. The scene where the headless guy is molesting the woman while his head sits in a tray with expressions of pleasure on his face.... I still hate that. It's the opposite of sexy.
Dagon (2001) does a decent job at capturing it, as far as film goes. The 2010 indie Color Out Of Space from Germany has some moments which capture the feel quite well despite some of the other rough bits in it. The couple of "American" characters briefly in it were not good at all, but some of the scenes did well with the unexplainable creepiness and the reveal scene. Film, in general, could never do a straight adaptation though. Best to try capturing the tone as best they can. There will always have to be changes & compromises in the switch.
Absolutely. Dagon is of course a different Lovecraft story, but Dagon is the "source" or reason for the goings on in Innsmouth. Likely titling it simply "Dagon" was more *exciting and mysterious* than Shadow.
Great movie except for the really uncomfortable and unnecessary nude scene. Just makes me feel bad for the actress and that takes me out of the movie. You can relate what is happening without needing to show everything. After all they don't show you what the decapitated head is doing, but you get the idea. Movies need to trust their audience.
You have to understand the times. Scenes like that were in almost every lower-budget movie. The audiences back then didn't always think they were necessary, either. We used to call it "gratuitous" nudity.
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Great film .. "From Beyond" is equally as good
I'm glad you found it funny - Re-animator is hilarious!
Fun fact: Jeffrey Combs has played nine onscreen roles in the Star Trek universe. The funny thing about it: he's not even the one with the most roles in Star Trek. That honor goes to Vaughn Armstrong with 11 roles.
Combs is the only actor to have two guest starring roles in the same episode
Founder, I would give my life...
Combs might have lost the crown to Vaughn Armstrong (who did excellent work as a Borg among other species) but dang, who's the actor who rebooted the Andorian species almost single-handed? A: Jeffrey Combs.
His Andorian character in the Enterprise series is classic.. he could of got a show of his own
There was an extra who is in more episodes of Star Trek TNGH than William Shatner (in all of Star Trek). And she had no lines at all.,
Jeffrey Combs plays the greatest Dr Frankenstein here! The two sequels to this movie are just as good and worth watching. There is another H.P. Lovecraft movie called "From Beyond" that stars the same actor and actress. Totally worth watching!
This movie isn't for everyone, but it's amazing! One of my favorites.
I'm always pleased with your unconvenional taste in movies!!
Barbara Crampton, one of my favorite scream queens. Even now, she's still working.
You're Next from 2011 is excellent.
Mr Spook on a pumpkin is a nice touch. beautifully carved, well done.
The absolute best thing about this movie is Herbert West. Not truly a villain, but a _proper_ mad scientist. His inability to pass up the chance to revive a corpse truly drives this movie in a brilliant way.
I cannot recommend the sequels. Different writers, different director, not nearly as good. However, there is a _sequel in spirit_ to this movie that you must watch. Stuart Gordon directs again, with a story based loosely on Lovecraft, and Jeffery Combs and Barbara Crampton starring. That movie is *_From Beyond_* and its absolutely worth the watch.
I can't believe I actually spent $7.50 to watch this in the theater back in the day! Best goddamn $7.50 I ever spent!
West: "I had to kill him"
Cain: "What?! He's dead?!"
West: "Not anymore"
Not to get too "Actor's Studio" on why this movie is a "classic", but those lines could have easily come off like a Saturday Night Live sketch: set-up, punchline etc., no timing. But these actors really sell it- like how you would might react if you came across a bloody scene, and your roommate explains he had to kill your Prof! This whole movie works because the cast buys into it, without question. A little like how Star Wars worked, too.
"Dirty old decapitated man" isn't a sentence I expected to hear today 😆
I saw a commenter mention "From Beyond", and that flick is definitely worth a watch. From Beyond has the same director (Stuart Gordon) and the same kind of fun 80's body horror effects. It's kind of wild that Gordon would later go on to write a classic family-friendly comedy, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", of all things.
There's also BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR (1990) and BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR (2003). Stuart Gordon directed RE-ANIMATOR and he used actors Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton again in my favorite Lovecraft adaptation FROM BEYOND (1986).
Takes a special type of person to appreciate this much gore in their movie, and I'm so glad you're one of them! Herbert West is one of my absolute favorite characters because he's so arrogant and over the top, and the one and only Jeffrey Combs plays him perfectly. It has all the best kind of cringe and glad you could appreciate it. The 2nd Reanimator wasn't so good due to production issues, but the third is brilliant! And as others have said, definitely worth checking out From Beyond as well.
From Beyond, the next HPL Gordon/Combs collaboration, is in some ways even more insane...
So good!
Fun thing, the opening theme is based on Bernard Herrman's 'Psycho' from 1960 by Alfred Hitchcock
It sounds exactly like "Psycho"
Yes, got that connection right away. And of you haven't recently, listened to the "Jaws" theme, you'll also see where that song's roots lie...
One could say 'Based on', but one could more accurately say 'Ripped off entirely'.
Don't get me wrong, I like the way they arranged it, but that IS the Psycho theme.
'Herbert West - Reanimator' was Lovecraft's first paid piece of work and it does have this tongue in cheek black humour to it than most of his works.
I think I recall reading that it was his intention that it be comedic.
"Herbert West - Reanimator" is often considered one of his worst stories, largely because he resented the editorial oversight and didn't enjoy writing it, so its a bit half-assed. The movie only uses some very rough concepts and characters from the original story's first few parts and leaves most of it on the chopping block. Interestingly, the sequel ends with West and Cain on the run in South America, still performing their experiments, which is taken from the story.
Stuart Gordon who directed this also did another Lovecraft inspired film right after this called FROM BEYOND that has Jeff Combs and Barbara Crampton back but in reveresed roles. (She plays the mad scientist). And they both also appear in his 90s cult film "Castle Freak". I also reccomend Gordon's 1988 film DOLLS, which is the precursor to all those 90s Puppet Master movies, except... its actually good 😂
Such a great movie! I Still remember when I first saw it with my friends back in the 80s. We were in stitches over the pencil breaking stunt! This and Evil Dead 2 where our absolute favorites! God you're stunningly beautiful Miranda, k.o.k.o.!!! 😉❤😘
Yea, that's something unique about THIS one, the zombies in it seem like they're in AGONY.
Really like your reaction.
Hope will get some other classics, whatever the genra, soon!
Love the pumpkin. You did an excellent job.
RE: Jeffrey Combs; An excellent B-movie lead, Combs commits to his roles with such conviction, and sells them entirely by going over the top with every monologue he's given. For an idea what he looks like in a larger studio production (other than TV) check out "The Frighteners" starring Michael J. Fox.
I watched this when I was a kid and the only thing i remembered was the Barbara Crampton getting some head scene. 😂
When my friends and I saw that scene, we all wished we could have given her head!
Stuart Gordon did a few Lovecraft-inspired films including this one. I think his movie Dagon (2001) did a decent job of capturing the spirit of it, being taken from The Shadow Over Innsmouth, despite the usual limited budget and large changes required. The 2019 Color Out Of Space by Richard Stanley is a decent depiction, along with the very indie 2010 Color Out Of Space from Germany which has some moments capturing the creepy and unknown mystery of the story. I doubt anyone could make a good one-to-one film directly based on Lovecraft stories but I appreciate the attempts which, at least, get into the neighborhood.
The actor who plays the doctor there is in a ton of Star Trek, like the Weyouns in DS9 and the Andorian general in Enterprise.
Combs is a cult legend, I bought this many years ago on its VHS release, 🎖️
Stuart Gordon also directed my favourite English language movie adaptation of Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth (second best over all). But strangely enough this 2001 movie was titled "Dagon" as it took a lot from that and other Lovecraft-stories, but mostly it's The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
Dagon is pretty awesome with some great effects and terrific performance from Macarena Gómez as Uxia, but Ezra Godden is no Jeffery Combs, despite looking like him. You can really tell Gordon wanted Combs and Crampton for this, but alas, actors age.
The ending is supposed to be a Book End to how it started. We started with Herbert using the Re-Agent on his dead Mentor and we saw what happened...now we're left dreading what that dosage did to the dead Meg.
From what I've gathered, the name "Hans Gruber" is the German version of "John Doe". I guess that's why we occasionally see it referenced. At least, back in the 80s.
Dr. Gruber and the Gruber of Died Hard are not alone. In the 1966 spy spoof, Our Man Flint (which is great fun by the way), there's an assassin named Hans Gruber, who we learn was once kicked out of the Hitler Youth.
Jeffrey Combs plays a great nutjob and Barbara Crampton is one of the all time great scream queens.
The Lovecraft this was based on was published as a serial in a magazine in ten parts, and was more or less a parody of Frankenstein-like horror that had been very popular and repeated a long time by then.
When I watched this, and especially the sequels, many years after reading it, I thought it didn't treat the original fairly. I had just forgotten the tone of it and took it too serious as I was young reading it. But after reading it again I saw how close this really was, and even the sequels too.
And Jeffrey Combs was perfect in the role. Both his looks and his acting, except for not being blonde, is straight from the pages of Lovecraft.
Never seen this before but i liked it! Would be interested in seeing the sequals! Great reaction Miranda! Luv the Freddy Kruger shirt and the Spock-O-Lantern! Lol 🎃👻🧟♀️ Happy Halloween!🧟🎃👻
It was hilarious the way you kept cutting back to the smiley ghost on the couch.🤣
I didn;t catch onto the poster of the head and glad you liked it. Here's another Lovecraft movie with one of the actors - From Beyond (1986). It's actually quite tragic. Best of luck!
An odd thing about Re-animator is that the original NR and R rated edits both have a few scenes that are confusing, and you have to see both versions to understand the story threads. Question is if they did that on purpose or by accident. The movie while low budget was well written and planned by the creators, a passion project winking at the genre.
Oh wow, I had no idea you had a reaction channel
Glad you enjoyed this one.
Please try another J. Combs & Lovecraft: From Beyond (1986)
Every time in the movie that they called for Rufus the cat, my dog Rufus picked his head up and looked at me. I don't think he's heard his name on TV before. Love the Freddie Kreuger sweater.
Love the reanimater
One thing i remember them saying in the Fangoria issue about this is that they did a lot of work on the colours of the corpses to make them more realistic than they often look in movies (according to the filmmakers, anyway)
same crew made From Beyond (1986)...I'd go there for a "sequel"
This IS a loose adaptation of an actual Lovecraft story originally titled "Herbert West, Re-Animator". Even the original was tongue-in-cheek with the decapitated body toting around the head in a cloth covered bird cage. There's even an "audio" version read by...Jeffrey Combs!
I love this movie. Great choice Miranda. Do yourself a favour and skip the sequels, they are not a patch on this one. BTW Your giggle fit at the cat was infectious 🙂
This one is a classic.
Nothing Ng better than an 80/90s films practical effects are way more believable than CGI, plus they could write a better script back then
The reagent is just the stuff out of glowsticks. So is the Predator's blood and basically any liquid the 80's wanted to glow.
Anything with Jeffrey Combs in it is fine with me. He's also done some work with Edgar Allan Poe stories.
For more horror fun I recommend the "Masters of Horror" cable series, 26 hour-long episodes which ran on Showtime 2005-2007. Each was directed by a known horror film director who got to choose the story. The 6th episode 'Homecoming' is very appropriate just before the election. They've all been released on DVD.
"The stuff I put up with..." *unzips*
Cool, another film from 1985. Of the stories by Lovecraft, the one set in Antarctica was really cool.
It was bugging me where else in media had a crazy Dr. West who messed with creatures and bodies. Then it came to me, he's the bad guy in the Splatterhouse videogames. Which are based on Lovecraft also.
Lifeforce and Re-Animator? I love your viewing picks.
dear miranda, we beg you, if possible one day, please react to classic horror from 1988 called The Blob and also the movie called The Phantom from 1998
Now watch “From Beyond” (1986) … same cast in another Lovecraft classic . How many times did I look at that “Talking Heads” poster and never put that together. Good catch ! 🎃🎥🎞✌️✌️✌️
Since you're watching Star Trek: TOS, you might be interested in learning that Jeffrey Combs is a Star Trek character acting legend. My favorite is DS9's Weyoun, but he appears as 4 different characters in that series. He's also a recurring character in Star Trek: Enterprise and has a voice-acting role in Star Trek: Lower Decks.
What an amazing way to start a reaction. "Universität Zürich, they're in Germany. Other than Zürich is the largest city in Switzerland. They should teach more Geography in the USA. Great Lovecraftian horror, and good reaction though.
There were a few sub plots filmed that were removed from the final cut. One of them was elaborating on Doctor hill's mesmerizing abilities... Where he hypnotizes the Dean... Which explains why he was so quick to kick Dan out of med school. There was a weirder subplot where it's revealed that Doctor West is literally shooting up with his reagent and possibly it's what's leading to his madness. I think they were right to cut both of those because they do drag the film down and it just feels like padding. The deleted scenes are on the disc releases tho.
When horror movies were still great. Especially when Jeffrey Combs was in it. From Beyond is also a must-see.
Hellraiser 1 and 2 are also great.
Evil Dead, Colour from Space, Underwater, Superdeep, The Void, Night of the Creeps, The Blob, Night of the Comet etc..
H. P. Lovecraft and Clive Barker are the icons of horror literature.
Jeffrey Combs and Barabaro Crampton became horror icons with ReAnimator and From Beyond.
The 80s, when movie audiences were still taken seriously. In hindsight, the 80s were an absolutely brilliant decade.
Another gem is Pumpkinhead starring Lance Herissken
I remember all of us gorehounds trying to track down an unrated VHS of the movie back in the 80s. Did the opening credit music sounds familiar,. It's the theme from "Psycho" tweaked a bit.
Live long and pumpkin.
Yeah Classic 80's Creepy Horror Movie TnA ...
Since you liked this, you should check out "Return of the Living Dead" from 1985. Even funnier IMO, and is also a cult classic.
When David Gale's wife saw the 'head' scene, she flipped out screaming "This is what you DO?!" over and over, spitting on him. This most likely lead directly to their divorce.
The late David Gale, who played Dr. Hill, was so embarrassed by the nude "head" scene that he kept apologizing to Barbara Crampon for it. She was a sport and told him it was just acting. She did several of these Brian Yuzna films which somehow always required her to display her feminine charms disrobed. She was, and is, a good actor, though. Although this is a gruesome film, it has a strange tongue-in-cheek sense of humor. Many of the cast reappear in the other non-sequel films. See, "From Beyond". And Jeffrey Combs is a delight, as always. Congrats to you for appreciating the film's tone and not just discarding it as "gross".
Oh, and the producers got heat for cribbing the score from Psycho without crediting it or permission.
Woot! Freddy!
Jeffery Combs at his almost best (his best was Wayoun in DS9)
Oh, wo other cool horror movies. 'Slugs The Movie' a bit gory and yucky but an underrated flick, and also the colour version of 'Quatermass and the Pit', a bit of a British horror sci-fi classic. Has things in common with 'Lifeforce' in terms of style and genre.
Barbara Crampton is One of the nicest people,
I always thought Dr. Hill looked like John Kerry.
I bloody love this movie. Another good one by the same director is Dagon (but make sure you *only* watch the uncut US version, don’t bother with the R rated one)
You are very good! How you take a serious look at this movie. Even though it is wild and out there, what if....?
pumpkin-Spock is great
24:15 The strong specimen was actually Arnold Schwarzenegger's stunt double at the time.
The green syrum is actually the fluids from a glowstick. It's non toxic.
Miranda: It's funny because why..?
Me: Because West thinks it's so patheticly funny 😂😜
Highly recommend From Beyond, another H.P. Lovecraft based movie directed by the same director Stuart Gordon and stars the same actors, Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton.
16:03--croquet mallet
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As many have mentioned, Jeffrey Combs is heavily associated with Star Trek. You will see him again for a long stretch of time down the line. I’ll let you discover where, and who, but calling him talented is a gross understatement.
1:13 oof
What have you been doing with my daughter? Er.. Studying... anatomy yeah that's it.
Hey, great choice of movie! I have to ask though. Are you purposely wearing a Freddy Krueger like shirt?
Barbara Crampton is the best.
That movie has done great
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It would be cool if there were a way to fix the brain, reactivating neurons and getting adjacent ones to reattach. Probably either by like chemicals or nanites, but IDK. Either way, it would be nice if it were possible to undo the effects of strokes and whatnot.
Did you make that Servitor Skull yourself? Excellent flick.
The theme tune is, to be polite, a barely legally distinct rip-off of the theme tune from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
Another actress had been cast to play Meg but apparently had to withdraw after her mother read the script and got to the nude scenes. Barbara Crampton on the other hand was described as 'fearless' by the director. Sadly for the actor who played Dr Hill, his wife divorced him after she saw the scene with his head between Barbara's legs.
they don't make them like that anymore, that's for sure!
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OK. So. You've been watching a lot of stuff that are "must see" flicks. What are YOUR types of movies though? The kind YOU naturally lean towards.
I can't help but notice the similarities to "Pet Sematary".
Reanimated cat.
Reanimated people.
Reanimated loved one.
Difference: Instead of using a "Magic Place" it is a "Magic Potion".
"Pet Sematary" novel (1983)
"Re-Animator" movie (1985)
"Pet Sematary" movie (1989)
It seems to me that Lovecraft was just an excuse to copy Stephen King's idea.
01:13 u mean Zurich, Switzerland, right.😊
Lol, yeah I goofed there. In my head, it was Munich.
@@MirandaLikestoWatch aw well, anyway, we will still watch u. We like to watch u (lol sorry I know it sounds creepy, I just couldn't help it, u know, horror movies and that, appropriate). 😂
I saw this movie as a teenager, and it freaked me out. The scene where the headless guy is molesting the woman while his head sits in a tray with expressions of pleasure on his face.... I still hate that. It's the opposite of sexy.
I thought Re: react videos were banned from youtube?
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean.
Zurich is in Switzerland not Germany.
Oops! My bad, I think I confused it with Munich.
Please watch Bride of Reanimator😊
Free tip, they never get Lovecraft right on film.
Dagon (2001) does a decent job at capturing it, as far as film goes. The 2010 indie Color Out Of Space from Germany has some moments which capture the feel quite well despite some of the other rough bits in it. The couple of "American" characters briefly in it were not good at all, but some of the scenes did well with the unexplainable creepiness and the reveal scene. Film, in general, could never do a straight adaptation though. Best to try capturing the tone as best they can. There will always have to be changes & compromises in the switch.
@@NefariousKoel Dagon my ass, that movie felt so much more like "Shadows over Innsmouth"
@@ooEVILGOAToo It WAS Shadows Over Innsmouth. Despite the movie title. At least.. inspired by it.
Absolutely. Dagon is of course a different Lovecraft story, but Dagon is the "source" or reason for the goings on in Innsmouth. Likely titling it simply "Dagon" was more *exciting and mysterious* than Shadow.
2021, The Color Out of Space was pretty darn good. Though updated for a modern day setting, the story remained the same and effed as all hell.
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For me, there are TWO wildly funny black horror comedies. This one and "Return of the Living Dead".
Great movie except for the really uncomfortable and unnecessary nude scene. Just makes me feel bad for the actress and that takes me out of the movie.
You can relate what is happening without needing to show everything. After all they don't show you what the decapitated head is doing, but you get the idea. Movies need to trust their audience.
You have to understand the times. Scenes like that were in almost every lower-budget movie. The audiences back then didn't always think they were necessary, either. We used to call it "gratuitous" nudity.