Re-Animator

Death is only the beginning. At least, that's what Herbert West would like you to believe.

In this series, Now Playing Podcast reviews the complete Re-Animator trilogy, the gloriously gruesome horror-comedy franchise inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's serial story and brought to life by director Stuart Gordon, producer Brian Yuzna, and actor Jeffrey Combs in one of horror cinema's most unforgettable performances.

Beginning with the cult classic Re-Animator and continuing through Bride of Re-Animator and Beyond Re-Animator, these films follow the increasingly reckless experiments of medical student Herbert West as he pursues the ultimate scientific breakthrough: conquering death itself. Unfortunately for everyone around him, the results tend to be messy, horrifying, and frequently dismembered.

Combining mad science, outrageous gore, dark comedy, and Lovecraftian inspiration, the Re-Animator films became cornerstones of 1980s and 1990s cult horror. Join us as we examine every resurrection, every catastrophe, and every morally questionable experiment in a trilogy that proves some things are better left dead.

Then again, Herbert West would strongly disagree.