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Re-Animator is a 1985 American science fiction horror comedy film loosely based on the H. P. Lovecraft episodic novella "Herbert West-Reanimator." Directed by Stuart Gordon, it was the first film in the Re-Animator series. The film has since become a cult film, driven by fans of Jeffrey Combs (who stars as Herbert West) and Lovecraft, extreme gore, and the combination of horror and comedy.
Pauline Kael enjoyed the film's "indigenous American junkiness" and called it "pop Bunuel; the jokes hit you in a subterranean comic zone that the surrealists' pranks sometimes reached, but without the surrealists' self-consciousness (and art-consciousness)." Entertainment Weekly ranked the film #32 on their list of "The Top 50 Cult Films". and also ranked it #14 on their "The Cult 25: The Essential Left-Field Movie Hits Since '83" list.