![]() ![]() Placing Jeffrey Combs in the role of Herbert West, with Bruce Abbott playing Dan Cain, the originally unnamed perspective character, and rounding out the cast with Barbara Crampton, David Gale and Robert Sampson. ![]() In 1985, the late, great Stuart Gordon wrote and directed his film debut, Re-Animator. ![]() It was one of the first stories to make zombies a scientific phenomenon rather than mystical it was the very first introduction of the famed Miskatonic University into Lovecraftian lore and like all Lovecraft stories, shows why the public domain is a breeding ground for creativity. However, that's not to say that Herbert West - Reanimator hasn't made a rather significant impact on the horror genre. It's considered his poorest work, a clichéd early story without his graphic, dread-filled cosmic horror while sharing the same flaws, such as the racism. The riff on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is not exactly prized by Lovecraft diehards or scholars either. It's the early work that he looked back on and cringed, his "wretched work." All of us have been there. He wasn't fond of ending each chapter with a cliffhanger, which was very unlike his usual writing style, and claimed only to do it for the paycheck, something many working writers have done in their careers. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was known to not particularly like Herbert West - Reanimator, his serialized short story written for Home Brew in 1922. ![]()
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