Re-Animator (1985)

Herbert West has a good head on his shoulders... and another on his desk.

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Release Date: Oct 18, 1985
Rated: N/A | Runtime: 86 Mins | Language: English
Director: Stuart Gordon
Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, Robert Sampson, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Peter Kent

Summary

A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.

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What to Expect

Re-Animator is about a medical student who invents a serum that brings the dead back to life. Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) is an aspiring doctor who ends up being roomies with fellow medical student Herbert West (Jeffery Combs). West is a pain to get along with; he has the social skills and tact of a skunk, and lives solely for pure science, which he pursues with a fanatic passion. West wastes no time in confronting the chief brain researcher Dr. Hill (David Gale) at Miskatonic University, Arkham, Massachusetts, and the two get along like oil and water. Cain was living a satisfactory life with his fiance Megan (Barbara Crampton) and his black cat, Rufus, but West proves disruptive to his pet ownership, his studies, and his girlfriend in that order as the all-consuming quest to conquer death makes Cain the reluctant Watson to West’s Holmes.

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Critic Reviews:

It takes on a rather comedic approach to its gore factor with the use of the body props and excessive blood shedding.

– HNN

Although H.P. Lovecraft probably would have loathed this enduring 1985 adaptation of his story “Herbert West – Reanimator,” Re-Animator is still arguably the best Lovecraft adaptation to date.

– Cultured Vultures

This is a 1980s modernization of an H.P. Lovecraft story. It is somewhat of a spin on the Frankenstein tale but goes to even darker places than Mary Shelley’s literary masterpiece.

– Talking Pulp