Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon, 1985)
Gory as hell and funny as it could be, Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator
is a horror film lover’s wet dream. With enough classic elements of Sci-fi and
Horror with the genius turned mad scientist in Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) openly based on H.P. Lovecraft’s Herbert West, Re-Animator story and a distant homage to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Re-Animator didn’t become a cult classic for the
quality of its acting. Maybe. But it’s the outstanding use of gore and blood
that at first gets in your face. Then it’s the cartoonesque story of the two
young students Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott)
and West (Combs) playing with life re-animating every corpse that gets in their
way and the always in the wrong place Megan Halsey (Barbara Crampton) that is the tender half of Dan.
