15 Best Horror Movies To Watch On Netflix This Halloween

4. Re-Animator

An outrageous gore movie that purports to be based on classic literature, Re-Animator is the Citizen Kane of HP Lovecraft adaptations and even after 30 years, it still delivers the goods. Every other modern version of Lovecraft’s work can only look on in envy.

The plot: loose-in-his-shoes medical student Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), convinced he has perfected a formula for the re-animation of fresh corpses, begins using the cadavers in the morgue at Miskatonic University for his research, but don’t go thinking that this is your standard issue zombie movie.

Re-Animator was about as OTT and blackly comic as horror got in the 80s, and even today most films draw the line at a disembodied head going down on a naked starlet. Anyone who thinks that modern horror is too much of a muchness should investigate the past – here’s where you start.