Re-Animator and From Beyond - re:View

Boooooo! Just in time for Halloween, Jay and Jack check out a spooky double feature of Stuart Gordon schlock: Re-Animator starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, and From Beyond starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton.

[@FromMyBrain]

Anyone else expecting Mike to fight his way onto the stage screaming Jeffrey Combs! HE WAS IN STAR TREK!!!!!!!!!!!

[@zachsorenson1382]

He was not just in STAR TREK he was some of the best characters in STAR TREK

[@yourneighbor6152]

The comments alone was enough for me to visualize Mike stumbling onto the set

[@jamalcalypse]

not only that, but the worm creatures in From Beyond were the same ones Barclay dealt with in the transporter malfunction episode Realm of Fear

[@FrankLoon]

@@jamalcalypse Shut up! You're only making it worse by enabling this behavior in Mike. Everyone suffers when Mike talks about Star Trek... _even Mike._

[@donwilsonfromthewildlifepr2904]

Mayor of the Galaxy Especially Mike. He’s given Rich traumatic brain injury via Picard’s second season, thus eliminating the love of his life and only true friend

[@skullguy8504]

"Who's going to believe a talking head? Get a job in a sideshow." Still stands as one of the greatest lines in Horror movie history.

[@donnylurch4207]

Combs reads it so well!

[@MarquisLeary34]

The line wouldn't have worked it if wasn't for how spot on Combs' delivery was.

[@Nicoviceful]

I think there is a references to that quote in Divinity: Original Sin, the video game, where there is this talking head unwillingly working in a sideshow and you have to reunite it with its body.

[@donnylurch4207]

The_Storyeller I also got real Re-Animator vibes from the Spy's head in a Petri dish in TF2's Meet the Medic.

[@stormblahblah5589]

Durango Savage I see you on Secular Talk/David Pakman comments as well. You have good taste!

[@goji7273]

I was thinking about how David Byrne basically just looks like a mixture of the two male leads of this movie, and then I suddenly remembered what band he was in.

[@yeetmcskeet1446]

i just remembered that interview with the large suit

[@gangswagster]

There's a talking heads poster in the first sex scene of Re-animator!

[@mydogslikeboiledeggs7094]

Wow

[@ThatUmbrellaGuy]

The pencil snapping thing isn't simply frustration, its disrespect. He's going on the "I'm not writing that sh-t down."

[@madcapmakov2]

ThatUmbrellaGuy And Hill’s response “I suggest you get yourself a pen” is simply implying his lessons and studies are to be permanent as they are derivative.

[@timandshannon03]

Rewatching a Red Letter Media video and randomly finding a TUG comment is like winning KZbin Bingo!!!!!!! Hahahahaha good stuff!!!!!

[@steviegbcool]

Its ridiculously child like and cheesy like the rest of the movie.

[@vuphuongtrinh8875]

And just like that, the crippling loneliness is gone. For 45 minutes.

[@ripred42]

@@madcapmakov2 lmao, thought it was because a pen is full of ink so if he tries to snap it he'll get ink all over himself

[@cooperdonoho7267]

re:View is about slowly unraveling the sick mind of Jay Bauman.

[@ElGordoBandito]

My favorite nod to Re-Animator is in Transformers: Prime, where Jeffrey Combs voices Ratchet, the team's medic. There's an episode dedicated to his character developing glowing green vials of goo that he injects himself with to become more powerful, but his brain becomes more primal with each use. It's complete fan service to the viewers that recognized Ratchet's voice.

[@BubblesTheBard]

oh yeah the fuckin Synth-EN episode! Didnt he break into some 'con base and just beat the fuckin dogpiss out of Megatron?

[@jamesmallone]

There's also Doctor Falco in the 2012 TMNT, a mad scientist who was also voiced by Jeffrey Combs.

[@ransax]

​@@BubblesTheBardhe tried to... He overestimated his abilities. Lol

[@MrChomiq]

Jeffrey Combs is a freaking amazing actor.

[@RyanHall42]

His reading of the Reanimator short story is really worth tracking down as well.

[@diesereine6620]

Piotr Homa He's pure delight in DS9.

[@tykholol]

Dude, Jeff Combs is the man. Watch his startrek.com interviews. Seriously a class act. I even like Would You Rather with Sasha Grey because he carries shit so hard.

[@starsiegeplayer]

I found out this year that he was in the running to play Riker in Star Trek TNG. Roddenberry liked Frakes better.

[@deliciousdishes4531]

Also very good in Motivational Growth

[@odecus6611]

Finally a channel dedicated entirely to Barbara Crampton

[@mobius273]

Finally some good fucking content

[@Vaultboy101]

As a teenager I often got cramp in my wrist from consuming too much Crampton.

[@TheYutubesteve]

and jeffrey Combs

[@gregofcanada4494]

Underrated B movie Queen.

[@JHParee]

@@Vaultboy101 I know that scenario lol

[@BrianKishreviews]

It was a clever detail to have the line "Who's going to believe a talking head?" and to have a Talking Heads poster in Cain's bedroom.

[@Vileplume87]

Foreshadowing?? Or maybe the set designers just have good taste

[@catwhowalks99]

With regard to Re-Animator's soundtrack: the Closed Caption version for the deaf refers to the music as a '[Psycho Soundtrack Tribute]'.

[@vanyadolly]

"It sounds like the Psyhyco theme!"

[@smeqwack7337]

interesting how deaf would know what the psycho theme would sound like

[@catwhowalks99]

@@smeqwack7337 As an English teacher, that IS interesting, now that I think about it. Perhaps it's mean more to invoke the 'feeling' of Psycho? I also know that the deaf sometimes place their hands on speakers to 'feel' music... so it could be that? (And I can't believe a comment I made three years ago is being replied to today!)

[@canislupus3655]

@@catwhowalks99 It could be for people who ended up loosing their hearing?

[@meats7854]

@@smeqwack7337 some folks can kinda hear but need some help with it

[@warbossgegguz679]

28:00 "Goopy Monsters come through and everyone loses their mind", effectively summarizes 75% of what Lovecraft wrote. They clearly did their research.

[@gringofett3944]

With tentacles....dont for get the tentacles.

[@kerrychristensen7204]

@@gringofett3944 and eyes 👁🐙👁

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

Not really. I mean, Lovecraft's monsters were hugely varried. You had fish-men, floating jellyfish thingies, Cthulhu the octopus head, the plant-like Elder Things, the gaseous Colour Out of Space, the mushroom-crab Mi-Go. The only goopy monster in Lovecraft's fiction that I can really think of would be the shoggoth.

[@Skycrusher]

I find it ironic how everyone has very clearly defined ideas on the appearances of Eldrich Abominations, which, by definition, posses forms that cannot be grasped fully nor comprehended completely by the human mind. For "fans" of the source material, you sure don't act like it.

[@tubeguy4066]

@@Skycrusher "fans"' lol they only played the Call of Cthulhu board game.

[@WordUnheard]

Barbara Crampton had better receive some much-deserved love in these reviews. She isn't just a scream queen, she's an icon!

[@matthewbesson5367]

I went to a screening of this film where the cast and director we present. During the "head" scene Barbara ducked out and came back in after it was over. I would have done the same thing. Got a pic and an autograph later. I was one smitten kitten.

[@BigTek9]

The idea of Stuart Gordon in a disney board room gripping his head while blood spurts from his nose makes me irrationally happy

[@FlymanMS]

That'd make a good short horror/thriller film

[@playedout148]

Scanners.

[@JFKHaircut]

I'm gay

[@Peratohtori]

It wouldn't be a Jack and Jay favorite without a creepy rapey scene

[@RyanHall42]

"Reanimator: just the right amount of rape." -- Jay 2017

[@pongod5751]

or voyeurism

[@muxperience]

it's all bad, but there were some real clunkers on the tail ends

[@sodiumlamp1085]

Never saw Reanimator, but From Beyond is responsible of so many of my fetishes...

[@scrofulaeggula]

What about the movie, though?

[@Durr0694]

"Humans are such easy prey." So that's where the title for one of my favorite Perturbator songs came from...the AMV that goes through my head whenever I hear it is gonna really change now.

[@alexdemoya2119]

fellow synthwave enjoyer based

[@nickdirienzo2849]

Jeffery Combs is my favorite actor! Nobody can deliver a line as ridiculous as his lines with such sincerity as he does.

[@Battleschnodder]

Hans Gruber actually IS very close to John Smith for 80s Germany

[@Burningwithecstasy]

East or West 80's Germany?

[@Monsterdesdinges]

Both tbh

[@jo_magpie]

Austria actually, most common surname there.

[@GenericHyena]

Extremely common in the countryside of Austria.

[@ThePostApocalypticInventor]

Here are some maps. Really common in parts of Bavaria and Austria: jakubmarian.com/origin-of-the-german-surname-gruber/

[@BeyondBirthday2005]

A Halloween themed re:View can only be hosted by a Halloween aficionado Jay Bauman and a real-life Halloween monster Jack "Clown Weirdo" Packard

[@kloggmonkey]

i guess they re-animated the theme from 'psycho'.

[@TediI47]

PLAGARIST

[@DevouringSickness]

From what I remember, it was completely intentional to be just an 80's style version of the Psycho theme. They were going to put something along the lines of "Score Stolen from - Bernard Herrmann" in the credits, I believe.

[@jessjee9220]

Boom!

[@cesiumbob7278]

Yeah that was a let down ripping off the Psycho theme.

[@audiosurfarchive]

Booooooo

[@Wasabo7]

I would enjoy a re:View of "In the Mouth of Madness." I'm sure plenty of other people would, too, especially if you want to see Leto Atreides tear his own face open and Dr. Alan Grant laugh psychotically in a movie theater.

[@audiosurfarchive]

Lmao

[@RetroDrew]

Bet you feel special now lol

[@richardblack3385]

Best movie ever

[@musicnoonelikes]

@Aerociviz Nicholas your opinion is still shit a whole year later

[@JHParee]

@Aerociviz Nicholas I agree. But it’s nowhere near as bad as Memoirs of an Invisible Man or Ghosts of Mars.

[@c.195]

"I'm never gonna see a giant worm monster that bites my hair off" 2020's still young, who knows what can happen now?

[@Skullkan6]

If only you had known...

[@SlipperyPeteClassic]

RIP Stuart Gordon. I wish I saw more of his movies when he was still alive.

[@Novasky2007]

Jeff combs is a god damned awesome actor, he can be creepy and authoritative simultaneously.

[@sindurgoku8022]

Oh, I waited for this for years. Re-Animator and From Beyond are absolute marvels.

[@killergoose7643]

We need an American Werewolf In London re:View

[@Movies15647]

Max Landis should be the guest, I'm sure his dad told him a few secrets about making that movie.

[@wmascolin]

Wreck Tangle rip

[@sheabutter3260]

@@michaelheffner7684 yeeeaaahhhhh.... not anymore.

[@samfartson881]

@@Movies15647 oof

[@Movies15647]

@@samfartson881 Yeah my comment hasn't aged well lol

[@branovices]

Jay may not know what it's like to have a giant worm bite his hair off, but Jack clearly knows.

[@TeatroGrotesco]

Barbara Crampton is fearless. I had always noticed in From Beyond that she bravely gets down in some awkward positions and angles no one would want to be seen from but she does it. Even as a 15 y.o. I appreciated the confidence of the actress.

[@roberthall6351]

"I was busy pushing bodies around as you well know...what would a note say anyway? Cat dead, details later!" Great line

[@matthewbesson5367]

The other actress gets cold feet and Barbara Crampton says "hold my beer". That's my girl! I lol'd

[@BurroDiablo]

And just like that, the crippling loneliness is gone. For 45 minutes.

[@bozzutoman]

Reanimator put Jeffery Combs firmly on my radar, and he has _never_ failed to impress. Every time I see him in film or TV, he gets a hearty "huzzah!'.

[@zoonpolitikon14]

ReAninimator is still one of my favorite horror films of all time. Long live the 1980s!

[@crimsonjapery3103]

The original re-animator story is just as comedic I recommend it.

[@nickdirienzo2849]

There will never be an actor who can deliver the line "It bit off his head like a gingerbread man!". He's one reason why DS9 is my favorite Trek.

[@prof_parahelix2390]

The fact that at least one of the releases of the OST has "(with humble apologies to Bernard Herrman)" written across the cover is incredibly funny

[@phuzface]

Barbara Crampton's performance in That Scene in Re-Animator was so visceral that i legitimately fainted. saw stars and everything. i was NOT expecting that. needless to say it was impactful, what an awesome actor!!!

[@LaserfaceJones]

Herbert West is one of the characters in some dude's homemade fighting game full of horror characters called Terrordrome. It's really fucking cool and free!

[@NoclipDocs]

Sweet shirt!

[@TheJOBeffect]

Makes me smile knowing that Jack watches noclip and you guys watch red letter.

[@YoUtUbEhAnDlEsArEgReAt]

Thanks, I just bought it from K-Mart. How can you see me?

[@press_x_tojason]

Nah.

[@ewwpoorpeople5684]

The first top comment that deserves its place

[@Shenkie]

i was just about to comment that now not knowing the channel. definitely checking it out

[@greenarmymen]

I literally just rewatched From Beyond just a few days ago. It's still one of my favorite movies ever I'm so glad you guys love it too.

[@greatfrito]

Re:View is my favorite of all of the shows you guys do. Always excited to see a new one

[@takerdust]

Jay banned Mike from this review to prevent the avalanche of Deep Space Nine references.

[@suredoloveya]

"I think stuart gordon has some repressed sexual issues." So very repressed, that's definitely the correct word for it.

[@andrewdarling7304]

F E S T I V A L U M S

[@admech590]

I don't get it

[@madcourier6217]

@@admech590 It's a reference to one of their best of the worst episodes. Can't remember the exact episode but the movie they watch involves an angry police chief yelling at some cops that they cause the chief to have a tums festival at the end of every day.

[@blainem2258]

I read Tumus and thought it was a festival of the satyr from narnia

[@brain_apostrophe_t]

...B O Y D I C K R T H E H D A Y

[@tprime2702]

Hollywood Cop reference: "Everyday ends with a TUMS festival!"

[@fauxteal8502]

Hell yea Re-animator. Haven't seen From Beyond yet but it's on the Halloween list now, thanks guys

[@ZombieDeathRace]

FauxTeal You gotta see From Beyond. Really good movie.

[@ThierryVerhoeven]

"It's got everything you could ever want in a movie. We got goopy rubber monsters, we got kinky sex and we got brains being sucked out through eye sockets. It's just the best." Wow, Jay went all Stefon there.

[@victorpapaiz7364]

For the record, the tuatara lizard actually has a third eye on the top of its head that formed from its pineal gland. The concept makes sense.

[@spooplegeist]

Early fishes also had pineal glands on top of their heads which could be used like eyespots to sense changes in light above them.

[@ShaneAsman]

This was great! Jay and Jack are a delight, and I loved this re:View!! I've never seen From Beyond, but I know what my wife and I will be watching this weekend. Thanks for another great episode, RLM!

[@iwanpbb]

October, the best month in Jay's life

[@robertjohnson9428]

I've been loving the increased upload rate. Hope you guys can keep up the pace! Thanks for the great content

[@reggiebannister4098]

They're just trying to ramp up some Christmas money.

[@kevinsonkevin3634]

I remember From Beyond was always in the video store. That weird melty face...

[@gitarmats]

One thing I liked about From Beyond is how the "it" that ate the first guy is still left as a bit of a mystery. Almost like in The Thing where we don't really see the monster's original form before it started assimilating the other organisms.

[@xer0]

I'd love to see them talk about John Carpenter's Prince Of Darkness, and Count Yorga.

[@andreas0101]

Prince of Darkness is so awesome

[@mkhammr]

This channel has such range. Every show is so good!

[@idiotproofdalek]

I actually went and watched From beyond on Netflix 40 minutes into this review! Good job guys!

[@lolowfi]

I wish Mike was in this episode to point out the Jeffrey Combs played Weyoun on Star Trek DS9

[@KomfortfilmHB]

Great re:View guys! Love both these flicks. But to me, the snapping of the pens in Re-Animator is more like an act of protest against authority more than anything else.

[@marikotrue3488]

Re-Animator is a warm and engaging Halloween classic. Thank you for reviving Re-Animator for this holiday season. From Beyond looks intriguing.

[@DeckyStrikesBack]

I watched both of these for the first time this year and reanimator single handedly restored my faith in movies. Then Ken Forees underwear in From Beyond restored my faith in humanity.

[@mistastaples]

I love Re View so much! Pretty much any Jay Bauman Re View is top notch!

[@jayjaydeth]

From what I've learned about Jack after watching Best of the Worst all this time, I gotta say, Jay picked the perfect movies to show him.

[@captainranger8423]

Disney suits, truly the most horrifying of goopy monsters...

[@paulforder591]

The Disney suits are asshole producers!! No wonder Stuart Gordon couldn't stand being around them, he wanted to direct B--movies his way. 😌🎥

[@Jollygreengiant144]

Jay is starting to look more and more like a frazzled uncle every day.

[@evansherwood5426]

Lol leave the man alone. As a 29 year old man who identifies as a frazzled uncle I take exception to such hate-speech. Seriously though dude doesn't look all that frazzled. In fact I thought he looked like a high school kid until about episode 30 or 40 of half in the bag. Lol leave us frazzled uncles alone! There are dozens of us! Dozens!!!

[@ozzymandias8137]

Evan Sherwood was the end of that an arrested development reference?

[@j.b.booker7912]

Hans Klopek?

[@jekw23]

What a double feature. Both incredibly fun and gory. These are tailor made for teenagers but even 20 years later I find these some of the enjoyable movies I’ve seen.

[@HemiBull]

LOOOVE Reanimator. Jeffrey Combs makes these movies. He's so intense on screen, and so captivating. Looks like he's really into the roles.

[@Nefville]

"He's not a bad guy, he's just trying to get the freshest corpse possible" has to be one of the funniest sentences ever spoken. 🤣

[@Farons8]

They should always let Jay pick the films they do on re:View.

[@mariecarie1]

Was introduced to Reanimator from this review, and absolutely loved it. Thanks so much for this review!

[@gaminginframes2819]

I saw (unrated) Re-Animator when it was first released, and it was a sold out showing. Everyone was into this film! Going to the theaters in the 80's were the best of times. 👍👍 for From Beyond as well.

[@starlightela]

Revisiting this video and I realized.... in Re-Animator Dan has a poster of Stop Making Sense over his bed (seen at 11:45) so Jonathan Demme very well could have been returning the favor and making a reference to From Beyond in Silence of the Lambs!

[@jackkraken3888]

I don't know why but my brain was trying to see through the silliness of the Re-Animator movie, maybe I think I like the idea behind it but wanted something more. Also you forgot to mention one of the craziest parts in that movie, towards the end where Jeffrey Combs was basically eaten alive by the body of Dr Hill, which for some reason had a light inside of it.

[@timd3469]

My closed captions always read that "Plagiarist" line as "Laid to rest". I'm glad you mentioned this because "Plagiarist" is much better there.

[@pyrodiscoflash6115]

Both movies are fantastic, Jeffrey Combs was born to play these characters

[@gunnarorvegard5364]

I'm so god damn happy you guys are doing these. I fucking love Jeffrey Combs

[@StillTheVoid]

RIP Stuart Gordon...one of few director's to correctly depict the style by h.p lovecraft.

[@CinemaGulp]

You guys are awesome. Thank you for doing these films. Great show!

[@ericwomack1974]

Thanks guys, loved it

[@rebeldbrown3085]

I'm super interested in Stuart Gordon now. Really informative and great analysis.

[@mechaheart]

I like when Jay can get deep with his favorite movies.

[@TwoCentsMedia]

Say what you want about Jack on BOTW, but he's at his best on Re:View. Really loving this combination. Hope for more Jack/Jay in the future!

[@ambrehyu9451]

Jack is weird, something about the way he discusses feels fake and deviated, when he agrees with jay it's for different reasons, and he reacts disproportionally too... it's kinda fascinating

[@lordprotector80]

Does Jay get weekly haircuts?

[@mightymelee]

Oliver Bayliss gotta put that patreon money to good use.

[@rikpeek6664]

Oliver Bayliss just like Jack!

[@moonpatrol9717]

speaking as somone with very little hair, I envy the fuck out of his perfect hair

[@bergonath8851]

Make that daily.

[@LionelBee]

Gotta maintain the glowup.

[@mrg3241]

Thanks for this reView RLM. I've been a longtime fan of From Beyond and think it deserves as much recognition as Re-Animator. There's also the more recent H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Dagon that Stuart Gordon directed which is worth a watch by anyone who enjoyed these movies.

[@sydberetta4649]

Jay really sent me down the rabbit hole with the Richard Band (Charles' brother)score because it's a whole doozy about what happened when this was released

[@Marquaker]

I was thinking the American Beauty reference scene, and in that moment Jay cut to that. Perfect! :)

[@apostolosfilippos]

jay motivates me to workout, eat healthy and take care of styling ! If one day I turn out gay, I will blame Jay

[@CongoTheBongo]

I think you're already there, bud 😂

[@tizzukka]

Thanks for making me watch these finally. I switched it up and started with From Beyond and that worked great because I enjoyed Re-Animator more. Next up: Dagon

[@Kletterhase]

Oh shit! It's Lovecraft time!

[@thepickles8833]

Oh boy, I bet the cat doesn't have a racially insensitive name

[@LucasFehr]

Wow. That was a GREAT review guys. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks.

[@MrGeremyTibbles]

From Beyond is so fuckin good

[@kenlen8029]

From Beyond is up there with the best b grade horror's ever in my book. I don't care if it's not as serious as some others, it's just so memorable for so many reasons. A true unrealized classic movie (imo).

[@thebrodwarrior_xi6515]

R. I. P. Stuart Gordon.

[@nexviper]

These are two of my favourite movies but I never really dug into the background of their creation or Stuart Gordon's works in general. Loved the episode and it really helped tie things together even more. I never knew he directed Fortress which I remember seeing as a kid too, and looking up his works just now I see he was involved in Space Truckers, Dagon, did some Masters of Horror episodes. All stuff I've seen and that left an impression on me but I didn't know were linked.

[@SM-vd2iz]

Jay's reactions to Jack's reactions: A+

[@Duhad8]

Thanks Jay, as usual I am going to check out your recommendations as I usually find they are pretty, pretty, pretty good!

[@heydude056]

Oh boy, a Halloween re:View double feature? It's Christmas!!

[@TheGagesharp]

My wife and I watched both of these movies because of this review and we loved them! Awesome!

[@TheTexasDice]

No chance of getting a Re:View for Army of Darkness, huh? It's my favorite Halloween tradition.

[@damonwadyko4841]

I think one of the most brilliant touches in the film is the Talking Heads poster in the film. Loved this Review, guys!

[@Weaponsandstuff93]

If you like Re-animator you'd probably like Cemetery Man/Dellamorte Dellamore.

[@DJ_Macphisto]

Great movie.

[@Enkarashaddam]

Weaponsandstuff93 they should also review 'society'. There is this scene near the end where everything suddenly goes red I nearly gasped because the scene change was so fucked up!

[@thepickles8833]

Cemetery Man is so awesome.... I have no idea what it's supposed to be about.

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

That's one of those films that I saw waaaaaay back in the day on like Cinemax and simply couldn't find anywhere for years until TPB came out. Brilliant little poem of a movie. NYA!

[@TediI47]

Hah, i literally just posted this before seeing your comment. The way that movie ramps up in paranoia was stellar. The point where the MC comes back from the hospital all sweaty and smiling saying all the nightmares are real was excellent. Maybe the movie climaxes a little too hard for some though, but i loved it.

[@stasios6034]

Thank you for introducing me to From Beyond. I was somehow completely unaware of this movie until this video.