A med student, a glowing syringe, and a severed head that won't stay quiet.
In this cult horror film, a mad scientist keeps his glowing green reanimation serum in syringes. What common chemical, usually used by crime scene investigators, actually filled those props?
Luminol The filmmakers used the chemiluminescent agent luminol to create the eerie glow of Herbert West's life-restoring reagent.
The composer for this Lovecraft horror film deliberately copied another famous score so closely that fans immediately noticed. Which classic thriller's music did he openly imitate?
Psycho Richard Band intentionally borrowed from Bernard Herrmann's iconic Psycho score, later admitting he wanted to keep that 'Herrmannesque feeling.'
This film became a horror classic, but its star only took the role because he needed work and assumed almost nobody would ever see it. What happened instead?
It became a cult hit Jeffrey Combs reluctantly signed on as Herbert West, never expecting the low-budget production would find a massive audience through home video.
The makeup team studied actual morgue photos to get corpse skin tones just right. How much fake blood did they end up using compared to a typical horror film?
Twelve times more Makeup artist John Naulin had never used more than a few gallons of blood on any film, but Re-Animator required twelve times that amount.
The filmmakers refused to submit this movie to ratings boards, fearing an adults-only rating. What creative format was the story originally written for before becoming a feature film?
A TV pilot Stuart Gordon first wrote Re-Animator as a half-hour television series, planning thirteen episodes before a producer convinced him to turn it into an unrated theatrical release.
