“Re-Animator” (1985) is a horror-comedy film directed by Stuart Gordon. It is based on H.P. Lovecraft’s story “Herbert West–Reanimator.” The film stars Jeffrey Combs (Herbert West), Bruce Abbott (Dan Cain), and Barbara Crampton (Megan Halsey). The story revolves around Herbert West, a brilliant but eccentric medical student obsessed with reanimating the dead. He enrolls at Miskatonic University and becomes roommates with Dan Cain, a fellow medical student. West’s experiments with a reagent to revive dead tissue quickly spiral out of control, leading to mayhem and terror. Shocking Opener The film opens with a grisly death scene. You see Dr. Hans