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Re-animated corpses of Re-Animator

FilmUndeadRunsScience gone wrong1968 to 1999

Stuart Gordon's film is set at Miskatonic University, where medical student Herbert West uses a reagent to reanimate the dead. The revived are violent, and a rival doctor's severed head goes on talking and scheming. The film has been reappraised as a classic of the zombie genre, and its real success came on home video.1

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First appeared
1985
Released 1985
Source work
Re-Animator (1985)
Stuart Gordon
Age rating
Unrated on first release; an edited version was rated R
Made in
USA
What causes it
Science gone wrong
A medical student's reagent brings dead tissue back to life.
How you become one
A corpse is injected with the reagent.
How it moves
Runs
The first revived corpse is frenetic and violent.
Intelligence
Some intelligence

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1985

Released 1985

field notes

What the sources say

1

A decapitated doctor is revived as a separate head and body, and the head still speaks1

2

Lobotomised revived corpses can be controlled telepathically1

3

One is finally stopped with a bone saw1

4

Makeup by John Naulin; mechanical effects, including the headless body, by Tony Doublin1

5

It began as a stage production and then a television pilot before becoming a feature1

6

Jeffrey Combs plays Herbert West1

Could you outrun it?

Speed class from how the sources describe it (runs), not a measurement.

You, walking about 5 km/h
You, jogging about 10 km/h
A fit adult sprinting about 24 km/h
Re-animated corpses of Re-Animator about 24 km/h
A fast cyclist about 37 km/h

Sources

  1. Re-Animator - Wikipedia

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Same era: 1968 to 1999

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