20 Greatest Horror Movies Of The 80s
7. Re-Animator
Legendary American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft has been adapted to the screen on many occasions, but rarely has the result been satisfactory to fans of his material. While 2001's Dagon stands as the best adaptation of his classic novel The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Stuart Gordon's 1985 film Re-Animator is the most gory and fun screen adaptation of his works.
Jeffrey Combs stars as Herbert West, an unhinged mad scientist who invents a substance which can bring the dead back to life, and proceeds to use it with increasingly bloody and over the top results. Re-Animator might be a low budget horror film but no expense - or talent - was spared for the visual effects. This is a quintessential example of 1980s horror at its most gleefully messy.
Re-Animator is the kind of horror film you get the most out of when watching it with a crowd; a late night drive-in style movie with its tongue firmly planted in its cheek.