Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, this 1985 cult film finds Dr. Herbert West getting ahead by bringing things to life
Lovecraft source material, and 
comedy, in ways ... Herbert West gets more manic as the movie continues, and 
just like... [DOC] [TLE] 'Re-Animator,' the godfather of giddy gore, at 30 - The Boston Globe [PAR] May 14, 2015 ... For the past month, audiences at the Harvard Film Archive have ... Jeffrey Combs 
as Herbert West in 1985's Re-Animator.