Re-Animator is a 1985 horror film directed by Stuart Gordon and based on the H. P. Lovecraft story "Herbert West: Reanimator" and first of the Re-Animator series. It stars Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Herbert West, a medical student who transfers from a school in Europe to the medical school of Miskatonic University to continue developing a formula to revive the dead. His testing of the agent leads to unintended consequences for West and his new roommate, Dan Cain. The movie has since become a cult film, driven by fans of Combs, extreme gore, and successful combination of horror and comedy. It currently has a score of 92% on critic site Rotten Tomatoes.
After being expelled from the Zurich University Institute of Medicine in Switzerland, Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) arrives at Miskatonic University in New England in order to further his studies. He rents a room from fellow medical student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), and converts the building's basement into his own personal laboratory. Cain, meanwhile, is secretly dating Megan (Barbara Crampton), daughter of school dean Alan Halsey (Robert Sampson).
