Re-Animator/YMMV

"West: "Check the Death House. If the Warden found her, he probably took her there." Phillips: "The Warden? But he's dead!" West: "..." Phillips: "God damn you!" West: "Religion has nothing to do with this.""
 * Adaptation Displacement - Herbert West: Reanimator was written in 1921 and 1922. The movie has almost completely supplanted it in popular culture.
 * Complete Monster: Even though Hill was a horrible person, the Warden in Beyond takes things one step further.
 * Crazy Awesome - Dr. West
 * Crosses the Line Twice - Okay, West killing can be justified, he had it coming... But him  for what amounts to shits and giggles? Seriously!
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome - When West rams a bone saw straight through the heart of one of the reanimated, without hesitation or so much as a squick face.
 * "Dan...I told you I had an idea...OVERDOSE!"
 * Crowning Moment of Funny
 * Those pesky severed heads! They always tip over.
 * "Cat dead. Details later."
 * From Beyond Reanimator
 * From Beyond Reanimator

""He was a loathsome, gorilla-like thing, with abnormally long arms which I could not help calling fore legs, and a face that conjured up thoughts of unspeakable Congo secrets and tom-tom poundings under an eerie moon.""
 * Funny Background Event- At the end of Bride of Re-Animator, West is knocked into the crypt containing many of his rejected experiments. In their midst is a white kitten puppet peaking over a corner.
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel - While most of the violence is quite over-the-top, the appearance of the morgue zombies was painstakingly based on actual corpses of accident victims, and as such is disturbingly realistic and extremely scary.
 * Rooting for The Villain: Despite all the horrifying things West has done and the havoc as the result of them, the audience can't help but cheer him on and hope he succeeds.
 * Squick - Plenty, but the
 * Values Dissonance: HP Lovecraft was a racist . Here's how he describes a black boxer in the Re-Animator short stories.