Hill (David Gale) while convincing a skeptical Dean of Medicine, Dr. After drawing his roommate Dan (Bruce Abbott) into his experimental plots, the two friends must keep their discovery and the reagent from the villainous Dr. More disturbingly, the reanimated flesh is heightened in its aggression and has a desire to feast on the living.
West proceeds to experiment with reanimating corpses from morgues and then whatever dead bodies can acquire. The film follows West, a medical student, who discovers a medical reagent that can reanimate dead matter, leading to a horrifying series of incidents. It’s a supremely off-putting and creepy role that would become his signature (he’d return to the role in two more Re-Animator sequels, unseen by me, and West’s chilly unctuousness would provide the template for characters like Weyoun). Re-Animator stars the eccentric character actor, Jeffrey Combs-best known as Weyoun in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and as one of the villains in The Frighteners- as the titular Herbert West. The film earns its cult status, providing plenty of interest for genre fans, while being so genuinely offbeat and deranged that you understand how it could never be a mainstream hit. Lovecraft's story, “Herbert West-Reanimator,” offers a mix of excellent gore makeup effects and a darkly funny and shocking story of science gone wrong.
In its brief runtime, the 1985 film directed by Stuart Gordon and loosely adapted from H.P. Some folks may not find Re-Animator very scary or its dark comedy very amusing, but to my tastes the film offers an excellent example of how horror-comedy need not sacrifice the horror to be genuinely funny as well as how comedy doesn’t necessarily undercut a genuinely unsettling premise. By this, I mean that what frightens an individual is particular to that individual-much like what makes an individual laugh is particular-and is not something that can be feigned. Whether a horror film works for you is, like the question of whether a comedy is funny, largely a matter of taste.
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