Re-Animator (1985)

Director
Stuart Gordon

Main cast
Jeffrey Combs; Bruce Abbott; Barbara Crampton; David Gale; Robert Sampson

Genres
Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy

Description
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.


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