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Re-Animator (1985)

Rate: 1
Viewed: 10/07

ReAnim
10/07: It's not that Re-Animator is offensive and tasteless but is rather unintelligent.

To add more to my misery, it's a boring movie to sit through. There are so many unethical moments that I'm supposed to believe they commonly occur to anyone who work in the medical field.

For starters, Herbert West probably killed a doctor somewhere in Europe, but why wasn't he prosecuted for it? How can he be admitted to a medical school after what happened? Then, at a pseudo-university somewhere in the United States, he's able to continue his sadist ways. He first works over a cat and therefore kills him. Not getting the intended reaction, he declares his experiment successful and decides to move on to dead bodies. Um...how?

Fast forward to the morgue, a corpse is awaken to life after he's injected with a glowing yellow reagent. He proceeds to break down a heavy steel door and wreaks havoc on everybody in the room. Later, the same door is shown functional as if it's new. Hmm. After blood has been splattered everywhere and the old man's fingers sliced off, there isn't an acknowledgment of what just occurred which explains why there's no investigation. So, who cleaned up the mess? It must have taken forever in spite of the incident happening in one night.

All in all, Re-Animator is garbage.