Chapham violently wanders out of the house and into the cemetery next door. West then re-animates the police officer with the intention of covering up his crime. A fight ensues and West kills Chapham by means of cloth treated with a chemical which causes cardiac arrest when inhaled (a product of West's research into obtaining the freshest possible corpses for his experiments). When he stops by their house to question them, he discovers West's corpse-filled lab and the two get into a confrontation. Chapham suspects West and Cain were responsible. Leslie Chapham begins investigating West and Cain, as they were the only unaffected survivors of the Miskatonic Massacre the dead body of Chapham's wife was re-animated into a crazed zombie during the incident (it is implied later in the film that he caused her death). Using the reagent, he re-animates Hill's head. Wilbur Graves discovers a vial of West's reagent and the severed head of Dr. Also stored in the morgue is the rest of the evidence from the 'Miskatonic Massacre'. With the promise to use her heart to re-animate a new Megan, West convinces Cain to help him with his project. West discovers the heart of Megan Halsey, Cain's fiancée, in the hospital morgue. He becomes determined to create an entire living person from disparate body parts. Using parts pilfered from both the hospital's morgue and from a cemetery located next door, West discovers that his reagent can re-animate body parts by themselves. There, they resume their former jobs as doctors at Miskatonic University Hospital, and West returns to the basement laboratory of Cain's house to continue his research. When their medical tent is stormed by the enemy troops, West and Cain return home to Arkham, Massachusetts.

In the chaos of battle and with plenty of casualties to work on, they are free to experiment with West's re-animation reagent. It was followed by a sequel, Beyond Re-Animator, released in 2003.Įight months after the events of Re-Animator, doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain are working as medics in the middle of a bloody Peruvian civil war. The film stars Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio, David Gale, and Kathleen Kinmont, with Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West.

The Tomb-Legions' of the Lovecraft story, and follows doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain as they attempt to create a living woman from dead tissue. The plot of Bride of Re-Animator roughly follows episodes 'V. Like its predecessor, it is loosely based on the serialized story ' Herbert West–Reanimator' by H. It is a sequel to the 1985 film Re-Animator and the second entry in the Re-Animator film series. Bride of Re-Animator is a 1990 American comedy horror film produced and directed by Brian Yuzna and written by Yuzna, Rick Fry, and Woody Keith.

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