(1985) ****
Everything's going well for med student Dan Cain, until he makes the mistake of taking as roommate mad-scientist-in-training Herbert West. West has returned from Europe with a penchant, and a serum, for re-animating dead tissue.
I know this is a blog favorite, but in defense of my (only) 4 star rating I found the earlier parts of the movie to be relatively slow going both in terms of humor and horror. Also I found Dan and his fiancee totally uninteresting. Fortunately, once Re-Animator gets going it really gets going on, plus it's super gory, plus Jeffrey Combs and David Gale are perfect in their respective mad-scientist roles. I hadn't seen it before, and though I knew some of the classic gory images ahead of time, there were plenty more shocking and surprising scenes in store... in fact, it was hard to resist putting up some of those images, but I wouldn't want to ruin the surprise for anyone else.
