"Re-Animator" and "The Terminator" – Outrageous Connections!

Truth is stranger than fiction when it comes to ties between 1984’s The Terminator

and 1985’s Re-Animator!

• Re-Animator and The Terminator were filmed concurrently at the same studio in Los Angeles.
• The first re-animated corpse (in the morgue, not the cat or Dr. Gruber) was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s body double, Peter Kent.
• At the time of shooting, co-star Bruce Abbott’s wife was Linda Hamilton. Later, she would marry The Terminator director James Cameron.
• James Cameron’s dad has a cameo in Re-Animator as a hospital patient.
• Both movies shared the same production crew. After The Terminator wrapped, the crew went directly to work on Re-Animator.
• Re-Animator co-star Bruce Abbott was born in Portland, Oregon.*

*This has nothing to do with The Terminator. It is merely a shout-out to my new city.