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• 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 Dr. Hill can be justified, he had it coming... But him decapitating him wholly and then re-animating the head and body separately 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!"
  • Meg's father killing Dr. Hill's head whilst West deals with the body.
• Crowning Moment of Funny
  • Those pesky severed heads! They always tip over.
  • "Cat dead. Details later."
  • From Beyond Reanimator

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."

• 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.
• Squick - Plenty, but the scene where Dr. Hill brings a whole new meaning to the term "giving head" stands out in particular.
• Values Dissonance: HP Lovecraft was a racist . Here's how he describes a black boxer in the Re-Animator short stories.

"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."