The Tomb of Terrors box set presents Reanimator Academy a super silly comedy "horror". I had this on VHS many years ago and got excited by Reanimator being in the title. I was hoping for a kind of gory, funny rip off of that classic. Unfortunately we get a non-gory, slightly funny kind of rip off. It starts out awful with some very very unfunny humor from a panderer, his enforcer and what I assume is his favorite ho'. The movie picks up after this as the humor gets slightly bearable. The films highlight is at a frat party and one of the partiers drinks out of a fish tank with a floating severed arm in it thinking it is full of spiked punch. This scene is noteworthy because the character is played by the dude from Redneck County Fever who affected a Wayne/Garth/Bill/Ted accent through that entire film. He talks somewhat regular here. While this might not sound like a highlight to most, it was nice to see him.
The film features a talking, rotten, reanimated severed head making wisecracks throughout with a hit to miss ratio of about 1 out of 50. It's at least endearing in a cheap, amateurish, well at least they're trying sort of way. Eventually the ho' from the beginning is reanimated and she quickly needs a second serum as all women who are reanimated immediately become shrewish. While 99% of the humor here is childish and non-vulgar we do get one kind of naughty scene. A man asks her for a "head job" and she gives him one! She punches his head off, now having super strength. She punches a number of John's heads off and the characters hilariously pick them up with a spiked pole you use to pick up litter. The movie ends with the head giving a painful stand up routine. If you like really, really cheap and mostly unfunny comedy "horrors" with little real horror maybe give this a watch, it's probably just as good as Surgikill. Plus it's only 68 minutes long.
