Re-Animator is quite possibly the greatest horror film ever created. When deciding to do it next, I had to seriously contemplate whether or not I was going to label it as my favorite horror film. A part of me feels that it is, but a more dominant part feels that saying so is very ignorant. I do know that it's always been one of my favorites, but as you may come to realize, I say that quite often about various films. But in this particular case, its absolutely true. Throughout my life, there's been a string of films that I have thought to be some of the greatest ever made and Re-Animator rightfully has a place among those. It really is one of the only films where I am at a complete loss of words over. There's no real way to describe how I feel about it. It's just a fantastic, gory, disgusting, badass movie. Jeffrey Combs, who plays Herbert West, does an overwhelmingly amazing job. Re-Animator made me forever a fan of his. The basic idea of the film, in case you haven't seen it, is a medical student named Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) creates a reagent that reanimates the dead. He then begins conducting experiments on dead animals and corpses in his medical school's morgue, trying to prove that his reagent works and to further his study on reanimation. That, itself, is just badass. That's a badass story arc. It was based on H. P. Lovecraft's Herbert West--Reanimator, which was written as a parody to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in 1922. Although, after writing it, Lovecraft was unhappy with it, calling it "wretched". He wasn't passionate about the idea, only to have written it for thirty dollars. And sixty-three years later, it was adapted into a film that was both a critical and financial success, that has since gained a cult following, and just happens to be one of the greatest horror films ever created."Who's going to believe a talking head? Get a job in a sideshow.."
J. L. Pilkins
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