It is a gorefest, but there is enough humor to take the edge off, but it doesn't end up a parody of itself.
He manages to walk the thin line between a horror film and a comedy, balancing the two and delivering a film that is stronger for it. Of course these plans go awry as issues spring up with how Herbert's "agent" works.ĭirector Stuart Gordon delivers a film that, even though it could have dated itself, manages to break that 1980's mold and become something more than a late night cable TV film lost to obscurity. Eventually the pair are discredited by the administration and they are forced to go about their work in secret. His goal: to bring people back from brain death. Herbert uses the relationship between Dan and Megan as leverage in getting Dan to assist him in his experiments. Dan is the typical over zealous student that's dating the dean's daughter Megan (Barbara Crampton) and being a general BMOC (big man on campus). Having "learned all he can" there he arrives at an American university and rooms with golden boy med student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott). Lovecraft story, the film opens with what will be our resident mad scientist Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) encountering the possible consequences of his experiments when his mentor dies at the European school he is attending. With Re-Animator we get another take on the Frankenstein mentality, though it is more tongue in cheek and finds some humor in the situation.īased on the H.P.
Science is the only thing of importance to these men. Frankenstein in the numerous incarnations that have been brought to life over the decades, be it Colin Clive or Peter Cushing. This is a person who has become so obsessed with their primary objective that they throw any sense of moral code or obligation right out the window. Throughout the history of film one of the characters that continues to pop up is the mad scientist attempting to push his studies to the point of lunacy.
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