Re-Animator Ultimate Limited Edition Box Set
‘Re-Animator’ 40th Anniversary Celebration to Include 4K Blu-ray Release in 2025
December 16, 2024
Ignite Films and Eagle Rock Pictures are preparing an elaborate 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release of 1985’s Re-Animator to mark the cult horror classic’s 40th anniversary.
Based on a tale from H.P. Lovecraft, director Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator follows Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), a brilliant yet unhinged medical student who creates a serum that reanimates the dead with horrifying consequences. The cast also includes Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale and Robert Sampson.
The film will make its 4K Ultra HD debut with a new restoration approved by producer Brian Yuzna.
“I’m excited about the 40th Anniversary 4K UHD Blu-ray release of Re-Animator — it looks great! Especially if you have a big screen! An excellent restoration, it is like seeing it for the first time again,” Yuzna said. “Stuart Gordon would have been super proud, and so happy that Re-Animator is still connecting with horror audiences and that this restoration is re-animating the movie in all its glorious madness — just as Herbert West intended!”
Fans can choose from four configurations of the 40th anniversary Re-Animator release, all of which include both newly produced bonus materials and legacy extras.
The two-disc standard editions will offer the film in either regular Blu-ray Disc or 4K Ultra HD formats, and include a slipcover.
New bonus materials include:
- “Re-Animator at 40” — A Conversation with Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, and Brian Yuzna”;
- “Piece By Piece: Cutting Re-Animator” — A New Interview with Editor Lee Percy;
- “The Horror of It All: The Legacy and Impact of Re-Animator”;
- “I Give Her Life: A Look Back at Re-Animator: The Musical”;
- “Re-Animating a Horror Classic: The 4K Restoration of Re-Animator”;
- The Organic Theater Company of Chicago — A 1977 documentary featuring Stuart Gordon
- New 40th anniversary 4K UHD trailer
Legacy bonus materials include:
- The 105-minute “Integral Version”
- An isolated score track
- Audio commentary with director Stuart Gordon and actors Graham Skipper and Jesse Merlin of Re-Animator: The Musical
- Audio commentary with Stuart Gordon
- Audio commentary with producer Brian Yuzna, actors Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Bruce Abbott, and Robert Sampson
- “Re-Animator: Resurrectus” — A feature-length documentary on the making of the film featuring extensive interviews with cast and crew.
- Interviews with director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna, writer Dennis Paoli, composer Richard Band and former Fangoria editor Tony Timpone
- A music discussion with composer Richard Band
- “The Catastrophe of Success: Stuart Gordon and The Organic Theater” — Director Stuart Gordon discusses his early theater roots and his continued commitment to the stage.
- “Theater of Blood — Re-Animator: The Musical“ lyricist Mark Nutter on adapting the cult classic for musical theater
- Extended scenes
- Deleted scene
- Trailer & TV spots
- Stills gallery
- “Barbara Crampton In Conversation” — The Re-Animator star sits down with journalist Alan Jones for this career-spanning 2015 interview.
- “A Guide to Lovecraft Cinema” — Chris Lackey, host of the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast, provides a comprehensive look at the many cinematic incarnations of Lovecraft’s work.
- “Doug Bradley’s Spinechillers” — Jeffrey Combs reads H.P. Lovecraft’s original story, Herbert West, Re-Animator
A “Deluxe Edition Box Set” will include a combo pack with both the 4K and Blu-ray versions, collector’s art cards, and a 150-page hardcover book featuring interviews with Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, writer Dennis Paoli and composer Richard Band, with essays by Scout Tafoya, Kate Rife, Will Sloan, Alex Kittle and Ben Sachs, and a preface by Brian Yuzna.
The “Ultimate Limited Edition Box Set” will include everything in the Deluxe Edition, plus a limited-edition hand-painted Dr. Hill collector’s bobblehead. A select number of fans who order the Ultimate Edition will discover green “re-agent” in their order — an exclusive poster signed by Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton and Brian Yuzna, plus a special Re-Animator gift pack from the Middle of Beyond online shop.
Pre-orders for the sets began Dec. 16 at the Ignite Films website, where they will be exclusively available for the entire 40th Anniversary Year, until 2026, announced Jan Willem Bosman Jansen of Ignite Films and Jim Quan of Eagle Rock Pictures. The sets will be available beginning April 3, 2025.
“Working with Brian Yuzna on this 40th Anniversary 4K UHD release of Re-Animator has been an incredible experience. His passion and dedication to the film made the entire process a real pleasure. Seeing this horror classic look better than ever is so exciting, and we can’t wait for fans to celebrate this milestone with us. It’s a true celebration of a film that continues to captivate audiences 40 years later.” Quan said.
The companies also touted the 4K release with a new 40th Anniversary trailer that was directed and produced by animator Ben Clarkson.
The 40th Anniversary celebration will also include screenings, appearances, signings, new merch, and more, throughout 2025, which will be shared at Ignite-Films.com and on social media. An officially licensed collection of Re-Animator products will arrive in 2025 from Fright-Rags, which created the neon green serum 40th Anniversary Re-Animator logo.
“People love this film! Over time, Re-Animator has only gained more fans who understand its evergreen appeal of an outrageous story, told with humor and horror in a grand and almost operatic way” Crampton said. “To see the beautiful new 4K restoration in all its cult glory is a sight to behold. I know cinephiles will enjoy it for years to come.”