Re-Animator story
The medical student Herbert West invents a reagent which can re-animate deceased bodies. He and his classmate Dan Cain begin to test the serum on dead human bodies, and conflict with Dr. Carl Hill, who is infatuated with Cain's fiancée and wants to claim the invention as his own. It is loosely based on the 1922 H. P. Lovecraft serial novelette "Herbert West–Reanimator". It is the first installment in the Re-Animator film series.
18 total · 1 choice · 7 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| revival long after death | choice | The medical student Herbert West invented a reagent that he and his classmate Dan Cain used to revive long dead bodies to life, but with zombie-like side effects. |
| engaged couple | major | Dan and Megan were engaged to be married. |
| mad scientist stereotype | major | The medical student Herbert West was obsessed with reanimating dead bodies using his newly invented reagent. |
| obsessive love | major | Dr. Carl Hill was unhealthily infatuated with Cain's fiancée, Megan. |
| romantic love | major | Dan so loved his fiancée Megan that he kissed her dead body's lips and injected it with a reanimating reagent with zombie-like side effects. |
| roommate and roommate | major | Herbert moved into to Dan's apartment and the two lived as roommates to Dan's fiancée's minor annoyance. |
| what it is like in university | major | The story follows the dead body reviving antics of two classmates at Miskatonic University in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. |
| zombie | major | Herbert West invented an injectable reagent that brings corpses back to life, but in a frenetic and violent zombie-like state. |
| benefiting from someone else's work | minor | Dr. Carl Hill was pointedly accused of having plagiarized Dr. Hans Gruber's work. Dr. Carl Hill tried to steal the credit for the corpse reanimating serum that Herbert had invented. |
| disapproving parent | minor | Dean Alan Halsey strongly disapproved of his daughter Megan dating Dan Cain. |