Re-Animator

Movie • 1985 • Sci-Fi  

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This movie contains 47 potentially triggering events.
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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MintTea
A cat dies, is brought back to life, and then killed again onscreen, twice. It's obviously a puppet but the sound effects/gore can be a lot to take in.
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cosmicautopsy
animals are experimented on, but only the cat is shown
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Rev
Yes, there is a black cat who dies, is re-animated, and then killed again. It is obviously a puppet for all of those scenes though
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captainjenneger
A dead cat is seen in a fridge. The cat later returns as a zombie and attacks two men. One of the men throws the zombie cat at a wall and it dies (again). We see an obviously fake cat with some gore on it, which is then re-animated once again.
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A pet cat dies offscreen, is reanimated, and is killed in a violent way
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Are there bugs?
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valkery
Yes, repeatedly. Hill constantly gaslights people throughout the movie.
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RavenB
Hill is revealed to have kept a file on Meg containing pictures and hair without her consent.
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ThirdEvilGender
there are no children in re-animator or bride of re-animator
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SQuare98
Woman slaps male partner twice.
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fanofbees
Only in the extended version there is a scene where it shows that Herbert is addicted to the reagent.
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ThirdEvilGender
the movie contains many shots of people/corpses receiving injections. there is also a scene in an extended edition of the main character injecting himself.
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BobbieDreamhearse
Megan is strapped to a table against her will.
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A woman, while unconscious and later conscious is groped and licked without her consent.
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Anonymous
you see someone get assaulted while they are naked (look at "is someone raped on screen?") so it isnt 'mentioned' it just kinda happens
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stormclouzdz
There are no children in the movie and nobody is described as or implied as being a pedophile.
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RavenB
Several corpses are re-animated with a "re-agent" drug. Extended version shows the main character injecting himself.
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SiRenfield
Attempted rape but pretty close enough honestly
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RavenB
The scalp of a corpse is cut and peeled from the skull during a medical lesson.
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SiRenfield
Are we forgetting Dean Halsey being crushed by that door?
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Medical_Maggot
A severed head is thrown against a wall and splatters near the end of the film
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SamhainStranger
A character has their fingers severed.
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SiRenfield
One of the Re-Animated engages in self cannibalism
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valkery
Eyes popping and bleeding as well as eyes gouged out.
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Anonymous
yes, toward the end of the film
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Odd that this wasn’t answered, it’s a huge part of the movie
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rubyfire77
gore in this movie feels particularly gross
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RavenB
Several characters are strangled, one to death
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basilange
A character is strangled to death
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castlefan3000
One of the re-animated corpses pushes a morgue's steel door over a man then jumps on it, crushing and breaking the man's bones causing him to bleed and then throws him around the room to death.
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A man’s fingers are bitten off and a man’s head is cut off

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SamhainStranger
Mouths are very bloody after being attacked, though it is unclear if teeth are damaged.
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RavenB
Dan falls down his basement stairs after breaking down the door.
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basilange
a few of the re-animated bodies have convulsions
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SiRenfield
It is however implied in-universe that Dr. Hale has had predatory thoughts about Megan since she was a child (and even molested her in the comic adaptation)
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sticksandstans
All of the characters are adults
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SiRenfield
[SPOILERS] Was probably not part of their plan for the get-go but Herbert lets himself get devoured by the worm thing to let Dan and Megan escape with his notes…he’s confirmed to survive in the sequel so it’s not lethal though
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RavenB
A pet cat is killed twice.
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BobbieDreamhearse
a reanimated antagonist "overdoses" in a very unrealistic, fantastical way by being injected with excess reagent.
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ElizabethZ
A character's father died though he is brought back to life in zombie form and still maintains some of his own personality.
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mothla
i mean if you count how gay dan was for herbert than yes
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Anonymous
refer to "does a parent die?"
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castlefan3000
A girl is kidnapped by one of the re-animated corpses, but rescued soon after.
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RavenB
There is no outright mannequin, but a man uses a rubber mask as a fake head for a few scenes.
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valkery
No, but there is explicit nudity
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Are there razors?
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valkery
No, but there is mind control
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Anonymous
i didnt recall anything that could be however if it is a huge trigger maybe get somebody to watch it for you who knows your own boundaries with this!
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cosmicautopsy
people are shown spitting out blood
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ElizabethZ
Several of the re-animated corpses spit up blood or gunk but no one outright vomits.
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RavenB
There are many squelch noises in bloody scenes, and speech/attempted speech through blood
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stormclouzdz
police/security are generally depicted as incompetent
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Cryptid_Crow
No. However, a lobotomy is performed on a character offscreen.
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SiRenfield
Technically not a mental institution, but Dr. Hill puts the Re-Animated Halsey in a padded cell and straitjacket that he has in his office…I guess. Either way it involves asylum imagery
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AdamC
Multiple times throughout the movie needles are used to reanimate corpses
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SamhainStranger
A large portion of the film takes place in a hospital, as the characters are students.
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mothla
yea herbert is super autistic and everyone is mean to him. not because hes autistic but cause hes a murder
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valkery
Not unless a zombie with low mental faculties counts
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mothla
yea dan has a anxiety attack (maybe????) during a scene
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SiRenfield
There’s no confirmation there of but you could make a decent case for Herbert being autistic. Which granted he is considered “creepy” by people but honestly his neurodivergence or lack thereof is not 100% clear enough
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TheDreammweaver
Body horror
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valkery
In a way? a character's father (although dead and re-animated) sacrifices himself to save their loved one.
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stormclouzdz
autism is never mentioned in the movie so there is no ABA or other similar abusive "treatments" for autism depicted in the movie.
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futureboy
There is a scene where two characters are attacked in an elevator.
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valkery
Yes, but only dead people. Seem banging their heads on walls, among other things.
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basilange
the only time that comes to mind is when Dan falls down a flight of stairs
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squahs
a light constantly swings in the basement as the two leads hunt a cat
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Does a baby cry?
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SiRenfield
Herbert West is queer coded (and according to actor Jeffrey Combs, is asexual) and is seemingly killed off at the end, but his death is retconned/ignored in the next movie
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SiRenfield
You could argue Herbert isn’t a great depiction of asexual people (at least if you go with Jeffrey Comb’s reading) since it feeds into the stereotype of asexual people being sociopathic (edit: the aphobia category has since been added so I’ll also note that other minorities aren’t egregiously misrepresented)
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SiRenfield
In terms of casual ableism Megan calls Dan “insane” when he tries to explain what happened to her father
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basilange
there are two black characters, though neither get any characterization. one is a security guard, who lives, the other is one of the reanimated corpses.
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SiRenfield
Herbert West is asexual if you take “Word of Saint Paul” (in this case a 1996 interview with Jeffrey Combs) into account. And I love him, I really do; but he does meet a fair amount of criteria for the amoral asexual stereotype. Edit: Judging by how much downvotes I get every time I mention the asexual thing, because how DARE I try to contradict a popular headcanon, here is my primary source: https://www.oocities.org/sunsetstrip/villa/5949/shockint.html
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TheDreammweaver
An older man preys on and assaults a younger woman after being creepy towards her earlier.
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castlefan3000
Early on the film a couple is shown finishing having sex, near the ending a girl is sexually assaulted by a re-animated corpse.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there BDSM?
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RavenB
Many of the corpses are nude, and a female character is seen nude several times.
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castlefan3000
Herbert is implied to die killed by the re-animated and Meg dies too after being strangled by a zombie and Dan failing to save her in a way that could be upsetting to some viewers.
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boilingpoint
LOTS of blood and gore. all practical effects.
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