Just the Ticket #214: Re-Animator
Article by Sean Wilkinson, Re-Ticketmaster. Over the past two years of Just the Ticket 's history, there have been many recurring elements to my reviews, like my sarcasm, the Jaws beach-closure joke, subtlety, and unorthodox cops. But the two that come to mind as we conclude Wester Week are H.P. Lovecraft and the moon. And by the moon, I mean Full Moon , and by Full Moon, I mean Charles Band , and by Charles Band, I mean your internal organs. Yes, I know Charles Band isn't Tom Cruise , but I had to go there because you really don't want Herbert West (or Tom Cruise) anywhere near your internal organs. Given life a year after me, in 1985, Re-Animator is a loose adaptation of the "Plague-Dæmon" (if you count the first chapter recap as well), "Horror From the Shadows" (in part), and "Tomb-Legions" chapters of Lovecraft's original story, directed by Stuart Gordon ( Honey, I Shrunk the Kids ) based on a script he co-wrote with frequent coll...