HP Lovecraft returns to 31 Days of Horror with Re-Animator,
a cult favorite movie based loosely on the serial novella Herbert West, Re-animator this film has been both shocking and amusing it’s audience since 1985. Director Stuart Gordon made the decision to modernize the story, but thanks to a young actor named Jeffery Combs the production was able to keep in tune with the feel of one of Lovecrafts’ most popular pieces. Combs portrayal of West is detached from morality, and humanity and he quickly draws his naive roommate into his experiments at re-animating dead flesh. Scientific curiosity, college hormones, peer pressure, and egotism quickly cause events to spiral downward into a frenzy of imaginative violence and surprising levels of gore. Quite possibly the only movie I’ve ever seen that features a walking, talking headless corpse, and a homicidal cat returned to life attacking its former owner.
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