Jessica Docksteader

The Resurrected 

Year: 1992

Director: Dan O’Bannon

 I had never heard about The Resurrected until I began looking up movies from 1992. Maybe that is because it is a film that went straight to at that time most likely VHS.  The Resurrected is a horror film about a woman that hires a private investigator to find out what is wrong with her husband because he has been spending a lot of time in a cabin that his family had owned for several years. The husband had been acting completely different and there were weird smells and suspicious and extremely gruesome murders occurring in their town.  They later learn that the husband is possessed by his great-great grandfather and is living through his body and he is trying to bring these dead bodies back to life with weird chemicals and magic. After a long and gruesome discovery of the dungeon of the cabin they find many dead bodies waiting to come back to life. The movie is quite gruesome and in my eyes at times extremely horrifying and weird.

The film starts off by foreshadowing events seen later on in the movie. I think this works well because it makes the story seem realistic and it makes the audience think about what happened before what they see in the first five minutes of the story.  Even though the movie is twenty years old and a bit dated, the special effects work very well and to make the movie scarier and more gruesome. I liked that the movie starts off with an establishing shot of the insane asylum as well as continuing establishing shots throughout the rest of the movie. It sets the tone and helps the audience know where the action is taking place. Unfortunately for this particular movie, I was not thrilled with the acting. At times is seemed too “acted” and felt so much like a movie. When I watch a movie I like to picture myself as a certain character in the and how would I react to the events taking place within the film. But, with The Resurrected I felt like it was just to scripted to be that horrific.