ZOMBIES Pt 12: Re-Animator (1985) & Death Becomes Her (1992)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2019
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
CAT'S DEAD, DETAILS LATER.
This week Mike chats to Barbara Crampton (!!!) to discuss her career and new movie Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich.
Mike is also joined by actor Stevie Webb to discuss one of Crampton's earliest movies, RE-ANIMATOR, as well as Robert Zimeckis' brilliantly weird and wonderful DEATH BECOMES HER. They also discuss the work of H.P. Lovecraft and what we mean by the term "Lovecraftian" horror.
Music by Jack Whitney.
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| 0:00.0 | The In 1985, Director Stuart Gordon made a small cult movie based on an HP Lovecraft story about |
| 0:29.3 | a deranged medical student who concocted a chemical reagent which could reanimate dead bodies. |
| 0:37.0 | A few years later in 1992 Hollywood filmmaker Robert's Meckis followed up the huge |
| 0:47.0 | success he had previously with who framed Roger Rabbit and the Back to the Future trilogy |
| 0:52.0 | with a dark twisted B movie about a |
| 0:55.2 | magical serum that brings two bitter middle-aged women back from the dead. |
| 1:00.8 | Both movies were filled with hilarious but hideous scenes of body horror. |
| 1:08.0 | One made with stunning practical effects and the other with groundbreaking CGI. And both movies portrayed the moral, |
| 1:16.4 | spiritual and ethical consequences of bringing dead people back to life in the most |
| 1:21.8 | creative but grotesque ways imaginable. |
| 1:28.7 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the zombie movie and we look at Robert Zamechis's death |
| 1:34.4 | becomes her and Stuart Gordon's reanimator. |
| 1:47.0 | I will not speak to you till you put your head on straight. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. |
| 1:51.0 | My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. If you're |
| 1:54.0 | tuning in for the first time then welcome in this podcast we explore and |
| 1:57.7 | dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-genres |
| 2:01.7 | across several weeks. |
| 2:03.4 | We are currently in the middle of exploring the evolution of the zombie movie and this is part 12, |
| 2:09.2 | in which, as the intro suggested, we're going to be looking at these two really fun movies about |
| 2:14.6 | magical elixas that bring people back from the dead. Yes, that is Reanimator from 1984 and |
| 2:21.4 | death becomes her from 1992. |
| 2:24.0 | Both movies will be explored in spoiler-rific detail. |
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