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tonight's feature: Re-Animator (1985) on Shudder
As sick and twisted as it is quintessential, Re-Animator is a ghoulishly perfect horror movie. I had seen bits and pieces of it over the years but I don't remember ever watching the entire thing, so my expectations were low. This horror classic has it all: zombies, demented scientists, Barbara Crampton, Jeffrey Combs, undead cats bent on revenge, sex with a decapitated head, etc.
Herbert West develops a 'reagent' formula that brings dead things back to life, but he can't quite master the dosage. After being accused of murdering his professor in Switzerland, he ends up at Miskatonic University in Massachusetts to continue his studies. West brings back his roommate Dan's cat. West convinces Dan it was his reagent and Dan tries to convince the dean of the reagent's potential, but instead of embracing it, both are barred from the school. Naturally they break into the morgue to re-animate a dead body to prove the reagent works on humans. Things get way out of control and the dean ends up dead... until they jab him with the fluid. Things spiral into the abyss and the plot gets more insane and demented as it goes. 10 shots of glowing green goo right in the neck out of 10.
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