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Re-Animator 4K Premiere at the Boston Underground Film Festival
This past weekend I traveled by train up to Boston for the wonderful Boston Underground Film Festival, a staple of the local film scene, and one of the finest most wonderfully raucous places to enjoy genre cinema. Amongst exciting new titles like Annapurna Sriram’s Fucktoys and Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight, our brand new sparkling 4K restoration of Stuart Gordon’s deliciously depraved Re-Animator got to play for an appreciative and packed house. The weather let up enough to usher in a crowd eager to see the film looking its best. The festival is always well attended but it was nevertheless an...