Some of my favourite fun facts about my favourite H.P. Lovecraft film adaptation. Enjoy!
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Here is the original source where I found most of these facts complied, there are more here I didn’t include if you’d like to check out the full article!
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Stuart Gordon got the idea for the film from believing that there were too many Dracula inspired movies and not enough Frankenstein ones.
Gordon wanted to initially film the movie in black and white to give it the atmosphere of an old monster movie.
The film went through twenty-four gallons of fake blood.
Before production, various members of the cast and crew visited an insane asylum for research.
In the actors commentary for the film, Barbara Crampton recalled Bruce Abbott gifting her the jacket that he wore in the film, and that she still has it.
The entire film was shot in eighteen days.
The reagent in the film was glow stick juice, which Jeffrey Combs advises people not to drink because apparently that stuff is toxic.
Jeffrey Combs recalls in the actors commentary having to give David Game cigarettes while he was stuck under tables during the headless Dr. Hill scenes.
The opening scene of the movie was filmed last.
One of the actors on the film scared a gas station attendant because they were covered in the fake blood from set.
David Gale’s wife was so enraged by the “head” scene that while watching the movie, she left the theatre.
For certain scenes with dead Rufus, a real dead cat was used.
Re-Animator was one of many films that Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton co-starred on, others including From Beyond, Castle Freak, and The EvilClergyman.
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