Released on this day in 1985...
"Herbert West as a good head on his shoulders," read the tagline, "and another on his desk." Well, the one on his desk wasn't such a good one but it did make us rethink some of our colloquial uses of "head," didn't it?
On this day--18 Oct.--in 1985, a mad scientist, his rival, his assistant, the assistant's girlfriend and some vials of green goo that can raise the dead first caused delightful mayhem at a medical university when Stu Gordon's gory, gruesome, hilarious, wickedly transgressive RE-ANIMATOR, one of the horror highlights of the otherwise-too-often-slasher-consumed '80s, first hit the screen.