The Resurrected (1991) Reviews

	Kurt S.

7 out of  7  people found this review helpful

Solidly executed low-budget horror from the time before smirking, self-referential horror movies with teen and early twenty-something kids took over. Dan O'Bannon knows how to direct and tell a creepy story. The acting is largely good and the special effects suitably icky. Sadly, the film is not presented in widescreen and there are no extras on the disc.

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	Crawford B.

6 out of  6  people found this review helpful

Although the action tends to bog down in places, this is a very enjoyable film for all us low-budget horror fans. The acting is acceptable and despite the budget, there are some gruesomely excellent zombie effects. Most Lovecraft fans will probably be outraged, but I liked it.

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	Chris W.

3 out of  3  people found this review helpful

I was pleasantly surprised with this one. Lots of good reviews and rightfully so. Original and fun to watch - good acting too. Man, when the lights went out in the cave I definitely thought to myself - "uh oh!"

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	Jeremy R.

2 out of  3  people found this review helpful

Although he was never very popular in his lifetime, HP Lovecraft has become one of the most popular American horror writers in the past 30 years or so. He only wrote one novel, "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" and this is an adapation of it. Although a number of elments are changed (the protagonist in this is a PI, not the family doctor), it's still very much the same story. I don't really want to give away spoilers, but basically, this guy starts acting very strangely after discoving some notes and books of an ancestor, one who was a black magician. His personality changes, and his family (in this case, his very attractive wife) worries about him. So she hires a PI to investigate. What he discovers about Ward is quite disturbing. While this was a low budget movie,the effects were quite stomach turning. And unlike some other adaptions, like "Reanimator", this is done seriously. As a HPL, I was quite impressed at how good this was. Cheesy in places due to the low budget

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	Christian P.

2 out of  5  people found this review helpful

We were talking the other day about how they always remake truly classic movies with modern hollywood actors, and their always a disappointment, because you can't hope to recreate the magic of (for example) the original "Inlaws". We agreed that The Resurrected is the type of movie that should be remade. The story is basically good, and the special effects OK, but this one could really stand an infusion of production values and acting. Still a good movie, but it needs remade.

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