3. Re-Animator
Many attempts to bring Lovecraft to the big screen transpose his stories to the modern era, sometimes to their own detriment. With Jeffrey Combs, Brian Yuzna and Stuart Gordon's third entry, and Barbara Crampton's second entry, in our list this is not the case. There is a strange irony at play when the story that Lovecraft himself, and scholars of his work, consider to be his worst actually forms the basis of one of the best and most favoured of Lovecraft movies. The film also retains a certain sense of macabre humour, which is interesting considering the original prose work was serialised in a humour magazine. Combs' utterly serious Herbert West is a source of much of the humour, with the deadpan delivery of lines such as "I gave him life," which adds a certain relish to this film's obviously morbid proceedings.