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Released
1985 · FILM

Re-Animator

Medical student Herbert West obsessively seeks to perfect a serum that can bring the dead back to life, only to unleash a terrifying chain reaction that threatens his university and everyone he loves.

“Herbert West has a good head on his shoulders...and another one on his desk.”

Directed by
Stuart Gordon
Written by
H P Lovecraft, Dennis Paoli
Rated
MPA · NR
Runtime
86 min
ComedyHorrorSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • The Roku Channel

Synopsis

While working in the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West carries out secret experiments and shares with a fellow graduate student his discoveries in the re-animation of recently deceased bodies.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 30

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Lee PercyShot by Mac AhlbergScored by Richard Band

Box Office

1985 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.0M

Budget$900K
Worldwide gross$2.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $2.0M — 100% of worldwide · International: $4K (0%)

Opening weekend: $544K — 27% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $725K — 36% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 129 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Re-Animatorde

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