West demonstrates his reanimating reagent to Dan by reanimating Dan's dead cat Rufus. He rents a room from fellow medical student Dan Cain and converts the house's basement into his own personal laboratory. West arrives at Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts in order to further his studies as a medical student. When accused of killing Gruber, West counters: 'I gave him life!' There are horrific side-effects, however as West explains, the dosage was too large. Released to mostly positive reviews, Re-Animator has since been considered a cult film.Īt the University of Zurich Institute of Medicine in Switzerland, Herbert West brings his dead professor, Dr. It is the first film in the Re-Animator film series, followed by Bride of Re-Animator in 1990 and Beyond Re-Animator in 2003.

Re-Animator is the first film collaboration between Gordon and Combs, the second being From Beyond, released in 1986. It garnered its largest audience through the unrated cut's release on home video. Filmed in Hollywood, the film originally was released without a rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, and was later edited to obtain an R rating. Originally devised by Gordon as a theatrical stage production and later a half-hour television pilot, the television script was revised to become a feature film. Carl Hill ( David Gale), who is infatuated with Cain's fiancée ( Barbara Crampton) and wants to claim the invention as his own. He and his classmate Dan Cain ( Bruce Abbott) begin to test the serum on dead human bodies, and conflict with Dr. Directed by Stuart Gordon and produced by Brian Yuzna, the film stars Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West, a medical student who has invented a reagent which can re-animate deceased bodies. Lovecraft serial novelette ' Herbert West–Reanimator'. Lovecraft's Re-Animator) is a 1985 American comedy horror film loosely based on the 1922 H.

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