Review #211: Re-Animator (1985)
This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #66: Re-Animator (1985) Re-Animator is an adaptation of an H. P. Lovecraft story, about a medical student named Herbert West who is on the brink of discovering how to bring the dead back to life. (Though, that's misleading... this film is "about" his roommate, Dan Cain, who gets caught up in West's shenanigans, but I think we all know who we're watching the movie for.) Despite never having seen this film until today, I'm pretty familiar with the story. It's a popular horror film, it's a popular Lovecraft story, and parts of it have bled into (no pun intended) lots of other media I've consumed. The story is well-worn territory by this point, but the movie stands on its own- Jeffrey Combs' portrayal of Herbert West is fantastic, as were the others. The special effects in this film are just plain jaw-dropping, and it moves at a nice pace- it was over before ...