Herbert West’s serum was nothing more than glowstick juice, which Jeffrey Combs advises people not to drink because of how incredibly toxic it is.ġ3. The entire production was shot in only 18 days.ġ2. Naulin used images from the Cook County Morgue for reference when designing the effects.ġ1. That scene used an estimated 300+ gallons! It’s easy to see why so many gallons were used for this scene!ġ0. A total of 24 gallons of fake blood was used, which still pales in comparison to the “blood volcano” scene from A Nightmare on Elm Street released a year earlier. Makeup effects artist Josh Naulin stated that Re-Animator was the bloodiest movie he had ever worked on. Before production began, several cast and crew visited an insane asylum and morgue to for research.ĩ. Producer Brian Yuzna’s goal was for the movie to have the “shock value of Evil Dead” with the “production value of The Howling”.Ĩ.
Initially, Gordon wanted to shoot the film in black and white to give an old school monster movie feel.ħ. Before it became film, Gordon’s plan was to adapt the story as a stage play.Ħ. The idea came from director Stuart Gordon feeling like there were too many Dracula movies and not enough Frankenstein themed ones.ĥ. Its sequel even based its title on Bride of Frankenstein.Ĥ. Despite being “based on” the Lovecraft story, the film’s plot has much more in common with Frankenstein. Lovecraft was only paid $5 per installment (roughly $73 in today’s money).ģ.
The short story “Herbert West-Re Animator” was first published as a serial between October 1921 and June 1922 in Home Brew MagazineĢ.
So in honor of its anniversary today, we thought it would be fitting to look at 35 fun facts about Re-Animator, one for each year since release.ġ. There’s a reason that it remains a cult favorite 35 years later. Re-Animator remains the perfect blend of fun B-movie camp with science gone wrong. But none are as unapologetic or charismatic as Herbert West. Mad scientists have long been a staple of sci-fi/horror going back decades.
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