Dean Alan Halsey, another character invented by Lovecraft, is portrayed by Robert Sampson, first as an academic foil to West and later as a re-animated zombie. The unnamed narrator in the novella is called Daniel Cain, and is played by Bruce Abbott. It takes its plot and characters from the first two episodes of the serial, depicting Herbert West-played by Jeffrey Combs-as a medical student at Miskatonic University. It was followed by a sequel in 1990, Bride of Re-Animator, and by Beyond Re-Animator in 2003.Ī black-comedy retelling of the original story, Re-Animator is updated to a contemporary setting. Its success caused a small boom in Lovecraft adaptations in cinema, and the film is still used as one of the benchmarks for appreciating and critiquing Lovecraftian cinema. Lovecraft episodic novella " Herbert West–Reanimator." Written by Dennis Paoli, directed by Stuart Gordon, and produced by Brian Yuzna, it was the first film in the Re-Animator film series. Re-Animator is a 1985 American comedy horror science fiction film loosely based on the H.
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