The Resurrected

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The Resurrected
Directed by	Dan O'Bannon
Produced by	Mark Borde Kenneth Raich
Written by	Brent V. Friedman
Starring	John Terry Jane Sibbett Chris Sarandon Robert Romanus
Cinematography	Irv Goodnoff
Distributed by	Live Home Video Lionsgate (DVD, 2005)
Release date(s)	1992
Running time	108 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$5,000,000 est.
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The Resurrected (aka Shatterbrain) is a 1992 horror film, directed by Dan O'Bannon and starring John Terry, Jane Sibbett, Chris Sarandon and Robert Romanus. It is an adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft novella The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

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Claire Ward (Sibbett) hires private investigator John Marsh (Terry) to look into the increasingly bizarre activities of her husband Charles Dexter Ward (Sarandon). Ward has become obsessed with the occult practices of raising the dead once practiced by his ancestor Joseph Curwen (Sarandon in a dual role). As the investigators dig deeper, they discover that Ward is performing a series of grisly experiments in an effort to actually resurrect his long-dead relative Curwen.

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Director O'Bannon and screenwriter Brent V. Friedman had both developed the Lovecraft property over the years, independent of each other. While Friedman receives sole credit, O'Bannon did incorporate some of his own ideas into the project.
The film was developed with theatrical distribution in mind but went straight-to-video.