< Re-Animator

Re-Animator/YMMV


  • Adaptation Displacement - Herbert West: Reanimator was written in 1921 and 1922. The movie has almost completely supplanted it in popular culture.
  • Complete Monster: Even though Hill was a horrible person, the Warden in Beyond takes things one step further.
  • Crazy Awesome - Dr. West
  • Crosses the Line Twice - Okay, West killing Dr. Hill can be justified, he had it coming... But him decapitating him wholly and then re-animating the head and body separately for what amounts to shits and giggles? Seriously!
  • Crowning Moment of Awesome - When West rams a bone saw straight through the heart of one of the reanimated, without hesitation or so much as a squick face.
    • "Dan...I told you I had an idea...OVERDOSE!"
    • Meg's father killing Dr. Hill's head whilst West deals with the body.
  • Crowning Moment of Funny
    • Those pesky severed heads! They always tip over.
    • "Cat dead. Details later."
    • From Beyond Reanimator

West: "Check the Death House. If the Warden found her, he probably took her there."
Phillips: "The Warden? But he's dead!"
West: "..."
Phillips: "God damn you!"
West: "Religion has nothing to do with this."

  • Funny Background Event- At the end of Bride of Re-Animator, West is knocked into the crypt containing many of his rejected experiments. In their midst is a white kitten puppet peaking over a corner.
  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel - While most of the violence is quite over-the-top, the appearance of the morgue zombies was painstakingly based on actual corpses of accident victims, and as such is disturbingly realistic and extremely scary.
  • Squick - Plenty, but the scene where Dr. Hill brings a whole new meaning to the term "giving head" stands out in particular.
  • Values Dissonance: HP Lovecraft was a racist [1]. Here's how he describes a black boxer in the Re-Animator short stories.

"He was a loathsome, gorilla-like thing, with abnormally long arms which I could not help calling fore legs, and a face that conjured up thoughts of unspeakable Congo secrets and tom-tom poundings under an eerie moon."

  1. ↑ In his younger days and earlier stories, very much so. Whether he was/n't or grew out of it is a matter of debate.
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