''Re-Animator'' (Herbert West) (1985)

By Crusader1307

 Hero of American Horror Writer H.P. Lovecraft's 1922 novelette ''Herbert West- Re-Animator'', the truly terrifying story was made into an American Horror film Re-Animator in 1985. Full of typical Lovecraft gore and blood, the story tells of a young and idealistic Medical Student, bent on stopping unnecessary death (ala Frankenstein). West invents a formula by which dead organs can be brought back to life. His experiment first attempts to bring back life to small animals. West soon discovers that while his fluid brings his subjects back to life, they are souless, and blood-thirsty undead zombie creatures. The Dean of the Medical School (a biter old man who felt he was cheated of fame in his own Medical career), tries to steal West's formula. A fight with an accidental decapitation of The Dean, causes West to re-animate The Dean's head! Brought back to life, the now VERY evil Dean begins to order (and control) other re-animated corpses (to West's dismay). In the end, all evidence is destroyed by West (who is arrested for murder!). Saved by reason of insanity (and imprisonment in an Insane Asylum), West's formula falls into other hands (with possible future experiments and horrors just around the corner).