"Re-Animator" ...
... that you most probably didn't know yet
(but post probably could have done without!)
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after a university production of Peter Pan (Tinkerbell was gay, Peter
a hippie and the trip to Never Never Land was on LSD)
02. As for psychologists, Lovecraft lived out a masturbation phantasy
when he wrote "Herbert West - The Re-Animator" - creating life
without the help of women (eh - a bit far fetched, innit!)
03. Gordon hat spent weeks of research in morgues ("You never forget
the smell, I can assure you") and forensic labs
04. Re-Animator was shot in the same studios as Cameron's
"The Terminator", sharing some of the same crew, with a cameo by
Cameron's father (the hospital patient with a bandaged head), and
boasts Arnie's body double, Peter Kent, as the first corpse to be
revived.
05. Above mentioned Peter Kent was so excited about the project that
Schwarzenegger himself requested a screening, and subsequently
loved the film so much that he personally recommended Gordon as
director for Fortress - which eventually starred Christopher Lambert
when Arnie bailed.
06. The budget was barely over $1 million.
07. Hamburger mince was sometimes used in place of latex.
08. A lack of pubic prosthetics, used to cover up naked zombies'
genitals, meant that "Gesundheit" (the crew's nickname for the
shotgun-wound-in-the-face member of the undead) penis had to
be sprayed black to make it more discrete.
09. the neon life juice was, in fact, flare fluid bought from a local
hardware store
10. David Gale (Dr. Hill) had to be hit around the head with a rubber shovel
made from a cheap variant that had set far too hard, and was also
forced to wear a hideous wig for the whole shoot to match the hair on
his fake head (cheaper than a reproduction).
11. Ah, the infamous "head" sequence! (Barbara Crampton gets some
from a severed one): David Gale's wife stormed out after the first
screening, wailing "David! How could you!"
12. The actress who originally was supposed to play Barbara Crampton's
part had to step off the job after her mother read the script and forbade
her daughter the playing of this scene (you'lll find a reference on this
incident in one of Jeffrey's interviews)
13. Barbara Crampton spent the next few years confiscating stacks of
smutty stills from excitable fans at horror conventions
14. Jim Belusi, of Chicago, Illinois, to this day occasionally rings the
director in the early hours of the morning, simply to utter his
favourite line:
“Wessst … You … Basstarrrd!”
