The legendary 1985 horror movie Re-Animator, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this month with a brand new 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray edition, was not only grisly, outrageous fun, but arguably re-introduced the work of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft to a new generation of fans, paving the way for more adaptations.
Based on the 1922 story “Herbert West – Reanimator,” the film follows West (Jeffrey Combs), a brilliant but megalomaniacal medical student who’s created a “reagent” that can bring the dead back to life... as savage zombies. West’s obsession soon pulls in his fellow student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), Dan’s girlfriend Megan Halsey (Barbara Crampton), and the sinister Dr. Hill (David Gale), who has unsettling designs on both West’s formula and Megan, into a macabre, stomach-churning maelstrom of death, gore, and resurrected corpses.
