Also new are a few picture galleries comprised of rather candid on-set shots courtesy of Yuzna and his pal Jack F. Murphy. These are a blast to check out and are pretty damned funny for still pics. Last but not least, for you DVD-ROM users we have the screenplay and finally the inclusion of H. P. Lovecraft's masterpiece, Herbert West, Re-Animator. Pretty snazzy.
Anchor Bay shoots and scores yet again. If you don't already own the film, this is without question the best package out there even with its slight shortcomings. Uber-fans and completists (You know who I'm talking about. Yeah, you with the thirty-seven editions of Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn on your shelf) will no doubt be chomping at the bit to add this to their prized collection, but the average Joe just may want to take a pass. That is if he can live without that snazzy highlighter!
Special Features
Disc One:
- Commentary by Director Stuart Gordon
- Commentary by Producer Brian Yuzna and Actors Bruce Abbott, Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, and Robert Sampson
Disc Two:
- All-new 70-minute documentary: Re-Animator Resurrectus
- Interview with Director Stuart Gordon and Producer Brian Yuzna
- Interview with Writer Dennis Paoli
- Interview with Composer Richard Band
- Music discussion with Composer Richard Band
- Interview with Fangoria Magazine Editor Tony Timpone
- Deleted and Extended Scenes
- Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spots
- Galleries of Production Stills, Behind-the-Scene Stills, Poster and Advertising
- Storyboard Gallery
- Stuart Gordon Bio
DVD-ROM:
- Screenplay
- "Herbert West, Re-Animator" by H. P. Lovecraft
Film
5 out of 5
Special Features
5 out of 5
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Article comments
1 - Chris Beaumont
How about the A/V quality? I have the Millenium edition, and improved A/V would probably be the only thing to get me to buy this new edition. Sure, the doc would be nice, but I can live without it.
2 - Dread Central
According to Uncle Creepy, who wrote the review, the A/V is comparable between versions and that he didn't notice much of a difference.
3 - Chris Beaumont
Thanks, I'll probably skip this then....
4 - suziequzie
Just bought this today. I had to after watching it on VHS rental from my corner video store... with all the best scenes cut! Damn if that wasn't annoying... Oh, one of the scenes they cut is shown in that pic of Crampton and Gale above. I couldn't believe it. Badly re-edited too. This DVD more than satisfies. (Highlighter kicks a** too.)