Re-Animator is a horror film that stars Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Herbert West, who interns as a third year medical student and it's here that he meets Daniel Cain played by Bruce Abbott, a fellow medical student who along with his fiancée Megan played by Barbara Crampton rent out a spare room to West, but little do they know of his dark experiments.
As someone who isn't much of a horror fan, I was somewhat impressed by this film, mainly due to its intriguing story of re animating the dead using scientific methods and the great performance by Combs as West, he is delightfully manic and at times compulsive about his work and not once do you get bored watching him on screen in this role, Abbott and Crampton also had some nice chemistry as the young couple and David Gale was good also despite his near scary resemblance to Australian politician Bob Brown, though Combs also bears some resemblance to a young version of Australian prime minister John Howard.
However, what I didn't care for so much was the final act as it went a little too much in the "monsters on the attack" direction which in all honesty was very off putting mainly because of what I said above, not being much of a horror fan, I kept wishing the blood had been toned down a bit as the story was strong enough to not need it that much, but then that's just me.
All in all though, I did think the film was well done enough in its first two thirds to get it over the line, 3 and a half out of 5.
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