
Who: Dr. Carl Hill (as portrayted by David Gale)
What: Unveiling his own army of lobotomized, reanimated corpses
When: October 1985
Where: "Re-Animator"
Why it's a great moment: Dr. Hill has to deal with a lot of setbacks in "Re-Animator," not the least of which is his student, Dr. Herbert West, slicing his head of with a shovel. But does Dr. Hill let that get him down? No sir! He turned those lemons into an army of zombies.
After West reanimates Hill's body and head, Hill picks his head right up and goes to work assembling his zombie army, which includes the dean of the school, who happens to be the father of Megan, the chick he is ever-so-conveniently obsessed with. When West and his buddy Dan confront Hill at the morgue, Hill unleashes his army and unveils his plan to use his badass laser-surgical drill to master the lobotomized minds of reanimated people. Meanwhile, his body tries to demonstrate the device on West himself. Check out his speech about a minute and a half into this super-NSFW clip.
Unfortunately, Megan manages to get through to her dad, who crushes Hill's head while West gives his body an overdose of reanimating serum, turning it into an organ monster-thing. But up to that point, Hill was doing pretty well for himself, and for that, we salute him.
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Comments
King Oblivion,
Thanks for giving us a reminder of why Robert Gale (who tragically died) was called by the Immortal film critic Joe Bob Briggs "the heir to Vincent Price for the 1980's". It kind of sucks that YouTube (the pussies!) do not give us the incomparable 'head giving head scene' which definitely set new standards for the horror genre, which has sadly regressed. Scream? Saw? Can any of them truly hold a candle to "From Beyond", where Robert Gale gives us an Acadamy Award-winning performance even after being eaten by an interdimensional worm thingy and still managed to give us such lines as "Humans are such easy prey!" complete with erupting mutant pineal glands out of people's foreheads?
(Ahh, the pineal! I remember when it was the happening gland, indeed, the gland for the 90's!)
...shakes head slowly...
Standards have truly gone to hell. (And not in a way that I would like!)
Yours in cinematic science,
Dr. DNA
Posted by: Dr DNA | October 28, 2009 11:33 AM
Hey, K.O., Ph.D.? Yeah, I think we may have found someone nerdier about this movie than me.
Posted by: The Indomitable Professor Universe | October 28, 2009 11:23 PM