Dan Cain has it pretty good. He's a handsome medical student with a smart, attractive girlfriend. And a new transfer student just rented the spare room at his house, so he's not going to have any trouble covering his rent, now. Basically, as long as Dan avoids getting involved in bizarre experiments aimed at raising the dead, I am sure his life will be all sunshine, rainbows and puppies.
Good thing there's no chance his new room-mate, Herbert West, is experimenting in Things Man Was Not Meant To Know, right? And even if he was to do something like that, there's little chance it would lead to evil headless professors or rampaging undead hordes, I'm sure!
Re-Animator is a gleefully over-the-top bit of cinematic schlock. I imagine the screenwriting team taking the motto "Subtlety is for cowards!" as they hurl viscera and nudity at the camera from almost the first shot of the film. Our opening scene features exploding eyeballs and things are not going to get any more restrained from there. The cast seem fully on board with the melodramatic excess, with Jeffrey Combs (as Herbert West) and David Gale (as the malevolent Dr Carl Hill) being particularly noteworthy in their enthusiastic hamming.
It's hard to argue that this is a good film, but it sure is a fun one!
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