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{{Short description|1985 film by Stuart Gordon}}
{{Other uses|Reanimator (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox film 
| name           = Re-Animator
| image          = Reanimator poster.png
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Stuart Gordon]]
| producer       = [[Brian Yuzna]]
| screenplay     = {{Plainlist|
* [[Dennis Paoli]]
* William J. Norris
* Stuart Gordon
}}
| based_on       = {{Based on|"[[Herbert West–Reanimator]]"|[[H. P. Lovecraft]]}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Bruce Abbott]]
* [[Barbara Crampton]]
* [[David Gale (actor)|David Gale]]
* [[Robert Sampson (actor)|Robert Sampson]]
* [[Jeffrey Combs]]
}}
| music          = [[Richard Band]]
| cinematography = [[Mac Ahlberg]]
| editing        = [[Lee Percy]]
| studio         = Re-Animator Productions
| distributor    = [[Empire International Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1985|10|18}}
| runtime        = 86 minutes<!--Submitted theatrical runtime: 85:51--><ref>{{cite web | url=https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/re-animator-0 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025153338/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/re-animator-0 | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 25, 2014 | title=''Re-Animator'' (18) (CUT) | work=[[British Board of Film Classification]] | date=October 1, 1985 | access-date=November 25, 2016}}</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = {{Plainlist|
* English
* German
}}
| budget         = $900,000-$1.3 million<ref name="BoxOffice" /><ref name="AFI">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/57705|title=AFI{{!}}Catalog - Re-Animator|work=[[American Film Institute]]|access-date=November 11, 2020}}</ref>
| gross          = $2 million<ref name="BoxOffice" />
}}
'''''Re-Animator''''' (also known as '''''H. P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator''''') is a 1985 American [[comedy horror]] film loosely based on the 1922 [[H. P. Lovecraft]] serial novelette "[[Herbert West–Reanimator]]".<ref>Stephen Jones. ''The Essential Monster Movie Guide''. Billboard Books. 2000. Pg. 313</ref> Directed by [[Stuart Gordon]] and produced by [[Brian Yuzna]], the film stars [[Jeffrey Combs]] as [[Herbert West]], a medical student who has invented a [[reagent]] which can [[Undead|re-animate]] deceased bodies. He and his classmate Dan Cain ([[Bruce Abbott]]) begin to test the serum on dead human bodies, and conflict with Dr. Carl Hill ([[David Gale (actor)|David Gale]]), who is infatuated with Cain's fiancée ([[Barbara Crampton]]) and wants to claim the invention as his own.

Originally devised by Gordon as a theatrical stage production and later a half-hour television pilot, the television script was revised to become a feature film. Filmed in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], the film originally was released without a rating from the [[Motion Picture Association of America]], and was later edited to obtain an [[Motion Picture Association of America film rating system|R rating]]. It garnered its largest audience through the unrated cut's release on home video.

''Re-Animator'' is the first film collaboration between Gordon and Combs, the second being ''[[From Beyond (film)|From Beyond]]'', released in 1986. It is the first film in the [[Re-Animator (film series)|''Re-Animator'' film series]], followed by ''[[Bride of Re-Animator]]'' in 1990 and ''[[Beyond Re-Animator]]'' in 2003. Released to mostly positive reviews, ''Re-Animator'' has since been considered a [[cult film]].