Of all the holidays celebrated worldwide, no single day is more loved by the UTG staff than Halloween. With the arrival of October, the time has finally come to begin rolling out a plethora of features and special announcements we have prepared in celebration of our favorite day, including the one you’re about to read.

31 Days Of Halloween is a recurring daily feature that will run throughout the month of October. The hope and goal of this column is to supply every UTG reader with a daily horror (or Halloween themed) movie recommendation that is guaranteed to amplify your All Hallows’ Eve festivities. We’ll be watching every film the day it’s featured, and we hope you’ll follow along at home. If you have a suggestion, contact us and we may include your favorite scarefest in an upcoming column!

DAY 1: Re-Animator (1985)

With a well-deserved 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, Stuart Gordon’s 1985 H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, Re-Animator, is an absolute must-watch in the month of October. It’s everything you could love in an 80s horror flick – chock full of unrelenting gore, campy jokes and goofs, gratuitous nudity, and a score so well orchestrated that Waxwork Records just had to put it on vinyl – and I just had to buy it to add to my collection.

In my opinion, Re-Animator is almost more of a dark comedy than anything, but the blood, guts, and severed heads would beg to differ. The film has so many laughs that you go through a gauntlet of emotions between them and the moments that you want to cover your eyes in fear of what grotesque image may pop up on screen next.

Re-Animator serves as obvious influence for great films in the genre that followed such as Peter Jackson’s 1992 bloodfest, Dead Alive. Hell, the film was so well-received that it spawned a musical adaptation that hit Broadway a couple years back and the film’s star, the lovely Barbara Crampton (You’re Next), still regularly takes part in Q&A screenings amidst her busy schedule.

If you’ve yet to experience the greatness that is Re-Animator, you’ve been missing out for quite some time but we’re giving you the opportunity to redeem yourself. You can view the trailer below and purchase the film via Amazon on DVD and or Blu-ray, or if you’re strapped for cash, you could always get it on Netflix.

Editorial written by: Brian Lion – Follow him on Twitter
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