"Whether developing an oxygen-powered, rocket-launching motorbike in Cyclone, building a consciousness-altering machine in From Beyond, or creating a substance that revives the dead in Re-Animator, Jeffrey Combs cornered the mad scientist market in the '80s. He then continued to defy the laws of physics, nature, and reality as we know it in his first film of the '90s, which first grossed out audiences 35 years ago today."
"Although an enemy ambush forces them to flee back home to Massachusetts, West continues to play God in the basement of their shared home, harvesting limbs and organs from the cemetery next door and the morgue of the local hospital where they first ran amok. It's in the latter where he finds the heart of Cain's late fiancée, Megan, proving her last-minute zombie transformation in the original didn't end well."
Jeffrey Combs became the definitive mad scientist of 1980s genre cinema, later returning as Herbert West in Bride of Re-Animator after a scheduling change. The sequel retcons West's presumed demise and opens eight months later with West and Dan Cain in a Peruvian wartime medical tent, where they perfect a luminous green reanimation serum. An ambush forces their return to Massachusetts, where West harvests corpses and organs from a cemetery and hospital morgue. He locates Megan's heart and learns that mismatched body parts can form a new Frankenstein-like creature, and he exploits Cain's grief with promises of revival.
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