Re-Animator

“What was I supposed to say? ‘Cat Dead. Details Later.’” Dr. Herbert West This is one of the few movies I think i’ve gone out of my ways to watch multiple times. Heck this isn’t even my first time reviewing it here so I might as well be concise. This is not a perfect movie in the sense there are flaws, whether that be the unnecessary over use of sexual assault or the half buried plot element of a latent psychic ability that once you notice it really calls into question a a good bit of the plot structure. But if this movie isn’t perfect by my metric then no movie ever will be. This movie is about as comedic as you can get without entering horror comedy territory, around the level of Scream, which gives a lot of levity to what I’d say is a fairly strong message. That message in question while hard to fully narrow down has alway been to me something along the lines of great power being a great equalizer. Herbert West is a borderline Sociopathic individual that despite him being quite egotistical has dedicated himself to a field in which his end goal is the preservation and extension of human life. Dan serves as his contrast, a person who is even by his peers considered to be over empathetic in a field where empathy is a skill, leading him to pursue unorthodox and morally gray methods in the name of saving others. And while there’s not much I haven’t said in my previous review I will end this off by saying everyone in this movie really is doing their best acting wise despite this being a premise that could devolve into B Movie slop. While not the most outwardly emotionally driven movie the fact we begin on someone who essentially seems to be on cyclical cycle of mourning that to dismiss this movie as just your standard cheesy 80s horror romp would be doing this movie a disservice.